Love Island - Literary Men Edition

YOU'VE GOT A TEXT!: Welcome to the Love Island Villa! Ever wondered how literary male protagonists might fare in the UK's hottest dating show? Probably not. Here are five leading men for you to couple up with by the fire pit. They're trading in their long sideburns and majestic horses for fake tans and cheap plastic bottles with their neon pink names on them. Because nothing screams summer like a good book in the sun.

Love Island ITV / Pride and Prejudice 2005 Studio Canal

Edward Rochester

Whilst Mr Rochester's unconventional intensity may come off as rude at first, if you feel you are a 'poor, obscure, plain and little' girl, this is the man you want to couple up with. Hopefully, the villa's fire pit doesn't trigger any traumatic memories of his beloved Thornfield Hall going up in flames.

Jane Eyre 2011 Focus Features

It is no secret that Edward enjoys a good disguise. This hobby may be a bit too theatrical for some's taste and implies a deceitful nature but would prove useful in any costume challenge. A cautionary note to add though - he can take it too far sometimes. Miss Jane Eyre once saw him disguise himself, rather problematically, as a traveller woman.

Edward Rochester may long for 'your soul to be his' but be warned... he might pie-you-off by locking you his attic before the series is over!

Macbeth

Is this a sexy single I see before me? If you like a man you can persuade to murder for the throne, Macbeth might catch your eye when he enters the villa - couples who scheme together, stay together.

RSC Live: Macbeth

Sure, he's tormented by visions that embody his guilt but who isn't? If Macbeth is madly raving to the ghosts of his riddled conscience, at least he is too distracted to be pulled by any other contestant looking for love. Even if you both get weird looks at dinner because your villa-hubby is in an animated conversation with a seemingly imaginary Banquo Thane of Lochaber, at least he has a friend!

Together, you could 'murder' the competition queen! Well, you can make him do the dirty work at least. Macbeth Mac-better listen to the bloody plans in your bloody hands.

Fitzwilliam Darcy

Mr Darcy may have convinced himself love is a pointless pursuit yet he is not in the Love Island villa to win the cash prize that's for sure. He is loaded and has the Derbyshire estate to prove it. What man of great fortune is not 'in want of a wife' ?

Pride and Prejudice 2005 Studio Canal

Alas his heart is lonelier than his pride would have you believe. He may float in the villa pool brooding quietly for some time.

Do not be turned off if in Darcy's attempt at asking you couple up with him he calls you poor and insults your family. His 'chat' and flirty banta leaves much to be desired but be sure that if he loves you most ardently he will put all his eggs in your hand-woven Regency era basket.

Jay Gatsby

The Great Gatsby Village Roadshow Pictures

Mr Gats-bae is VERY single and just so happens to crave luxury. He works (criminally) hard for his riches after growing up impoverished. Who doesn't love a self made man? Keep your green light on for him ladies because 'no lighty no likey' (a different dating show reference but I couldn't resist). He now looks for luxury elsewhere and will do whatever it takes to get it! Including throwing extravagant parties to impress you - oh, and lying to you about his background. Beware of looking like a mug in front of the cameras with this geezer, especially in the lie detector challenge.

However, Gatsby's fibbing nature won't keep him in control for long because if he likes you he will be obsessed babe! Even if you couple up with someone else, Gatsby will only grow more determined to win your affections. He believes anything is possible - he's the American Dream baby! (But of course, much like the capitalist idealism behind the Dream, he will leave you forever unsatisfied.)

Heathcliff

I hope you're a heavy sleeper, because sharing a bed with this man screaming for his Cathy in his sleep will prove a challenge. Heathcliff will seem different, new, and refreshing compared to the other men in the villa because of his passion for the natural world (eco-conscious King!). He will smell of the windy moors and have a wild and unruly nature if you like that kind of thing.

Wuthering Heights ITV

If you couple up with someone else though, Heathcliff's otherwise absent understanding of society and humanity will come to fruition and he will play every game, no matter how unethical or manipulative, to punish you into admitting your feelings for him. Including dating your sister-in-law as a constant reminder that he exists or showing up on your wedding day after disappearing for years to steal the spotlight and hinder your ability to move on from him. Granted, the toxic behaviour might be a bit much for light evening entertainment television. Queue the Ofcom complaints!