Love is an amazing emotion. People spend much of their lives searching for true
love. When true love is found, people will do everything possible to hold on to and
cherish it for eternity. It is said that true love can only be found once in a lifetime that is
filled with intense everlasting emotions. A classic example of this powerful emotion is
displayed by the characters Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw in Emily Bronte's
Wuthering Heights examines a passionate and overwhelming love between its
central characters, Cathy and Heathcliff. 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
At one point, Catherine stays at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks and comes
back a different woman and her appearance seems more refined and polished. She has
been influenced by the Lintons, particularly Edgar who she has developed an infatuation
with. She has changed and "seems" to look at Heathcliff in a different manner. Catherine
says to him "Why how very black and cross you look! and how-how fu
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