Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is about the relationships between two families and how those relationships affect the members of their families. Catherine Earnshaw is considered a free spirit, but is torn between two worlds. She has to choose between Heathcliff, her childhood and friend, and Edgar Linton, the man who is socially acceptable for her to marry. She grew up at Wuthering Heights, which is considered

Outside the law, outside the codes and forms of restraint imposed by society and civilized values...no limit to their passions, but love and hate with equal intensity, as if gripped by a monomania that will not allow compromise, that cannot heed the voice of reason or even self-preservation (Benvenuto 91).

Catherine has to decide what will be the best choice for her, rather not letting her passionate emotions hinder any decision she may make. Her love for both men ultimately leads to her death. Catherine comments, " Her love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods...My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath"(65). Catherine Earnshaw is affected in her development by her relationships with Heathcliff, her marriage to Edgar Linton,

When Catherine was fifteen years old, she transferred her interest from the wild Heathcliff to the sophisticated Edgar Linton. He meets the social standards and is the type of husband that Catherine is generally supposed to be marrying (Leavis 55). Catherine knows that his is what is socially expected of her, and tires of Heathcliff easily now, as she knows they will never marry and her new attitudes takeover. "In the place where she had heard Heathcliff termed a 'vulgar young ruffian' and 'worse than a brute', she took care not to act like him; but at home she had small inclination to practise politeness that would only be laughed at and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor praise (69).

Christmastime. Her ankle healed nicely, and she had assimilated

Catherine's older brother Hindley returns home from his father's funeral and brings a wife. The children aren't tended to very well, giving Catherine and Heathcliff the freedom to roam the moors. One night they decide to go the Thrushcross Grange to look into the windows and make fun of the Linton children. Their dog chases after the intruders and bites Catherine's ankle as they run away. Edgar Linton sees Catherine's foot and tells his mother, "Skuler has caught a little girl, sir', he replied, 'and there's a lad here', he added, making a clutch at me, 'who looks and out-and-outer...that's Mrs. Earnshaw! He whispered to his mother, 'and look how Skuler has bitten her-how her foots bleeds!"(53).

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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)