Honestly, most people think that "being alive and suffer" is the highest punishment someone can have. But in this whole family especially Cliff's case, being alive is a blessing, even if he lost his sense and go crazy, that'sstill a blessing. Didn't he get a new wife after that? And the wife take care of him so much? Hell nah, that was definitely not a punishment. He should have been died. No other punishment but death.
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After lizzie fuck up cliff finally says “sorry guys I was wrong” and then after a short period of time gets himself a new tradwife and stays as duke heir. Reminder this man helped lizze try assassinate edith twice and left her to die when she got kidnapped AND didn’t feel any remorse (he was even encouraging lizzes behaviour) until she started cucking him left and right. This is so fucking infuriating I just can’t comprehend how he gets away with everything but it’s all because of Edith’s forgiving personality in novel.
EXACTLY!!!
He did not repent for all they have done together against Edith, specially when the control was already weak he got turned on with her craziness, but I have to say that I preferred the "punishment" Lizze gives him during their marriage, that was the only bit of pain they (father and son) got back.
I wished Cliff ended alone and Edith's son to be the next Duke or something similar, like he is unable to have kids and the second wife left him too, that would be sweet (╬ ̄皿 ̄)凸
In the novel, they just forget about the FL, she wakes up after everyone has left, almost dying from the injuries and the cold, that chapter is so sad, she realizes nobody came to rescue her, that Cliff (I hate him to the very end) didn't take 2 minutes to look for her, she's so injured that her face is totally unrecognizable like she had suffered domestic violence.
She has to use all her strength to pull herself upstairs and try to find the road to not die alone in that house.
I just can't with Cliff, I wished all the WORST THINGS TO HIM!!! Σ(っ°Д °;)っ