Forget Frankenstein, what else are snowflake students getting wrong about classic literature?

In a fit of thin-skinned, liberal foot-stomping, millennials are, say two UK newspapers, empathising with the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. “The sympathies of today’s millennial students often lie with a mistreated creature whose ambiguous near-human status prefigures today’s interest in animal rights,” says the Times. The Sun, nuanced as ever, says: “Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is in fact a VICTIM.” While the Sun is realising, in its own roundabout way, the point of Frankenstein, here’s a guide to the other books it must imagine that young, idealistic students have been getting wrong:
Animal Farm

As a thin-skinned millennial, I sometimes pretend George Orwell’s laugh-a minute romp is a nuanced critique of Stalinism and how the Russian revolution created a power vacuum that allowed the rise of a dictator. But, deep down, I know Orwell’s classic is a fun, farmyard fable. It has talking animals! A pig walks on its hind legs! I usually have to go on YouTube for that. Knocking off a horse to get some whisky – who hasn’t? Napoleon is just an incredibly entrepreneurial porker.
Wuthering Heights

Why should we care about some posh crumpet running off with a biracial farmhand? Some might claim Emily Brontë’s novel is a criticism of religious hypocrisy, classism and gender that asks us to empathise with people trapped by society’s unfair expectations. But Heathcliff and Cathy are typically impulsive young people and were forced to return to the bank of mum and dad, likely after splashing out on turmeric lattes and avocado toast. Only Joseph was sensible (and definitely would have voted for Brexit).

Source: theguardian