Love conquers all. It permeates throughout the land to intermingle among houses that are afar; it conceals itself within the hearts of lovers; it even seeps through the crevices of the earth to haunt the living. Through all of the gloom, revenge, evil and hate that surround Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, love has triumphed over all. While the relationships between certain characters in the novel, Wuthering Heights are tense at times; the force of love overcomes any ill sentiments possessed by the characters of both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights during the course of the novel.
             Tension is created by conflict, and in turn, conflict is usually the result of miscommunication. At the outset, Old Earnshaw misleads his new adopted child, Heathcliff into thinking that he is one with the family; however, he treats him as a servant whom he loves as a son. As Old Earnshaw's daughter, Catherine, grows closer to her adopted brother/servant, Heathcliff, she develops this inextricable bond with him. Even when her older brother, Hindley torments and retaliates against Heathcliff, Catherine still sides with her soul mate. Because of her need for luxury, however, Catherine resorted to marry Edgar, from Thrushcross Grange. Although this was a large setback for Heathcliff, their love still grew when they weren't together. Not a day went by without thoughts of each other, even when class, forbiddance and distance separated them. Through the walls of Thrushcross Grange, and all the way to Wuthering Heights, their love somehow seems to live on.
             At Catherine's deathbed, it is still apparent that Edgar's riches has not swayed her from continuing to love Heathcliff, for "... [She] won't rest till you [Heathcliff] are with me." (125). And this thus came true, for neither Catherine nor Heathcliff were at rest again until both laid in their graves alongside one another. However, this would be...