Violence in Wuthering Heights

When Catharine chided Isabel over her lust for Heathcliff, she retaliated and “she began to make use of her nails, and her sharpness presently ornamented the detainees…crescents of red. Because Cathy knows of Isabel’s lust for Heathcliff and because she knows she had to cut short her own emotions for Heathcliff she told him, “She had been dying for your sake for several weeks…for the purpose of mitigating her adoration. In Wuthering Heights the jealously that raged the highest is over love. It is only in death do the characters of Wuthering Heights try to make right in the world, and even then it is usually to late. The only way they talk is with yelling, sarcasm, or the always-present violence, “You and Edgar have broken my heart… You have killed me” (191). Like a virus, throughout the body until it is nothing but old, worn, and black. Although he does not believe in the devil, Heathcliff has sold his soul to it, while dragging Linton down with him. immoral goals after the victim dies; Heathcliff takes it out on young Catherine and Linton. Where it is always present whether it is in the background or showing its ugly face. If Catharine would have talked it out with Heathcliff and told him about her feelings then Heathcliff might have reacted so violently to Isabel by “The first thing she saw me do…was to hang her little dogs. Not only emotionally tormenting the people around him, Heathcliff is capable of physical harm as well. He goes so far as to use his own son in the plot of acquiring Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff might have been at peace if Catharine and he had discussed themselves in a more rational manner before she died. Catharine is callous towards Isabel and Heathcliff catches her on it by saying, “If I imagined you really wished to marry Isabel, I’d cut my throat.