wuthering heights

             Wuthering Heights is a classic novel of possessive and thwarted passion, and examines a passionate and overwhelming love between its central characters, Catherine and Heathcliff.
             Emily's Bronte's novel is unique first of all for its lack of psychological dismay. Never, in a novel, did so many people hate each other with such zest. Passion in this novel does not only concern love but passion also manifests itself in the form of hatred, jealousy and fits of madness.
             Everyone hates, no one disguises evil in this book; no one is "nice." It is surprising to come across a Victorian novel, which does not moralize, and yet is very far from amoral. How strange, in Victorian fiction, to see passion treated as the natural pattern of life. Passion, hate and pity abound in Bronte's dramatic story of Heathcliff and Catherine's tragic love on the untamed Yorkshire moors. Their love is profound and filled with passion unlike any other. Its intensity builds from their childhood until the untimely death of Catherine. The extent of this love is exemplified during Heathcliff and Catherine's interactions with each other, during Catherine's statements to Nelly, and during Catherine's death where Heathcliff and Catherine embrace for the last time. When Catherine and Heathcliff were young, they would "run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day"(44). They spent a lot of time together playing like children. It is in this time that they create their everlasting bond. Catherine and Heathcliff spend almost every waking hour together and inevitably fall in love. Whenever Catherine and Heathcliff talk about their love, their tone is high and wild. No words could possibly express the great passion they share; yet it becomes obvious in their "interactions together".
             The confronting brutality and sadism that lurks beyond the surface encompasses all who enter Wuthering Heights, both character an...

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