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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 15
Left: Emily Bronte, author of Wuthering Heights (1847), by her brother Branwell Bronte. Right: Huck and Jim, illustration by E. W. Kemble, from the 1884 edition of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Although there are supernatural elements in Emily Bronte's classic Wuthering Heights, they remain ambiguous, suggesting that the thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw has produced a psychological aberration extending to people with whom they are involved. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and the slave Jim travel on the Mississippi River to prevent Jim's recapture, and to board a steamboat north into the free states. Meanwhile, the Mythic Gods, Half-Gods, Super-Humans, and Almost-Super-Humans are honored with a testimonial dinner, presented with gold watches and are retired, off playing golf, one supposes. It is as if mythology itself, and the Super-Human archetypes, disappeared into the recesses of our cultural consciousness, quaint reminders of an anthropological past.
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