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Emily: A Tale of Love and Loss

As Emily Brontë is ill and near death, her older sister Charlotte asks her what inspired her to write her novel Wuthering Heights.

A Childhood of Creativity

Sometime in the past Charlotte, nearly graduated from school, returns home for a visit. Emily tries to talk to her about the fictional worlds she has been creating while Charlotte was at school, but Charlotte tries to dissuade her from these juvenile activities.

A New Arrival

At the same time William Weightman, a new curate, arrives. While her sisters and several other young women seem enamoured of the young man, Emily is dismissive of him. While visiting the Brontë home, Weightman partakes in a game the Brontës have invented where they take turns donning a mask and impersonating a character, with the other members guessing who the character is. When it is Emily’s turn, she claims to be possessed by the ghost of their deceased mother; a strong wind bursts open the windows. Charlotte, Anne and Branwell become distressed, while Weightman is disturbed by the scene. Emily buries the mask in the ground the next day.

Life’s Challenges

Emily goes with Charlotte to her school to learn to be a teacher, while her brother Branwell goes to study at the Royal Academy of Arts. Both Emily and Branwell return shortly after as failures, Branwell proclaiming he is now more interested in writing and Emily at a loss for what to do.

Emily’s father engages Weightman to teach Emily French, which he does, while arguing religious philosophy with her. Branwell encourages Emily to drink and play, and Emily uses some opium she finds in a desk, and has “Freedom in thought” tattooed on her arm like Branwell has; their favourite pastime involves staring in the window of a local family and scaring them at night. They are eventually caught, but when Emily denies her involvement, Branwell is sent to work for the family as a tutor as punishment. Branwell is caught kissing the mistress of the house and is sent elsewhere in disgrace.

Love and Loss

Emily and Weightman grow increasingly close and begin a romantic and sexual entanglement. When Charlotte returns and begins to suspect an affinity between the two, Weightman abruptly ends their relationship. Emily is devastated and takes out her anger on Branwell, telling him that his attempts at fiction are clichéd and trite. To move on with her life, Emily decides to leave with Charlotte for Brussels. She tells Weightman she no longer intends to write. Weightman writes Emily a letter urging her to change her mind, which he gives to Branwell, who reads its contents and does not pass on the message.

In Brussels, Emily has a vision of Weightman and shortly after receives news that he died of cholera. The sisters return to tend an ailing Branwell. His final act before dying is to give Emily Weightman’s letter in which he urges her to continue to write. After Branwell’s death Emily writes Wuthering Heights. Now on her death bed, Emily confesses to Charlotte that she was in love with Weightman, and asks Charlotte to burn the love letters between the two after she dies. Charlotte does so and begins to write her own works.

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Experience the emotional journey of Emily Brontë’s life in the full movie adaptation of her story. Witness her love, loss, and ultimately her legacy in Emily Full Movie.