Literatura e cinema: análise comparativa do personagem Hearthcliff da obra “Morro dos Ventos Uivantes” de Émile Bronte e a adaptação cinematográfica de Andrea Arnold/

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze Heathcliff's anti-heorism in the literary work Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë and its characterization in 2011 for a film adaptation by filmmaker and screenwriter Andrea Arnold. Highlighting its transformations, losses and gains and implications of this reinterpretation for cinema. Showing through a comparative study the character Heathcliff being an anti-hero and not just a villain as demonstrated in the 2011 adaptation. Studies related to cinema, concepts of evil, effects of oppression, racism, xenophobia and English society were of utmost importance of the 19th century. Given this, it was possible to understand this individual outside the “standard” and how this contributed to his transgression and reflection so that the concept of this character is seen as a villain. To develop this research, some theoretical contributions and literary critics were used, such as Scoz (2018), Burges (1996), Kothe (1994), Hutcheon (2006), Guimarães (2003), Cosson (2014), Stam (2008), BRAIT (1987) and others. Through the readings that were possible to analyze, it is concluded that the character Heathcliff is part of a concept of anti-hero written by its author Émile Brontë, who was ahead of her time with her unique work published that continues into contemporary times, it is clear that his creation is not an evil being or a villain, but rather an anti-hero who was created as a reflection of Victorian society.