Wuthering Heights How Do We See Love

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How do we see love? Is love something that is to transcend everything, even death? Does love makes one suffer depths of despair that the only release is death? Does love make us forget everything else and focus only on the object of affection? Does love force us to do everything possible, and beyond so as to exact every drop of its essence? Should there be barriers, are we all consumed to remove them and inflict grave injury and hurt on those who put them there? Possibly, but then again, we would really be off our rockers to do a Heathcliff However, Emily Bronte paints this picture of possessive and thwarted passion to great effect against the backdrop of the English moors. Her Heathcliff and Catherine breaks all imagination and logic in their attempts to be together and fulfill their lust for each other and revenge for their antagonists.

This story is about love, probably not the way it exists, but more about the way it should be - fierce, almost insane, unconditional, merciless and disregarding one's true wishes and needs.

"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being," tell us of Catherine's obsession for Heathcliff. Her intense love a

I will then conclude by noting that this powerful, passionate love story defies everything. There is no escape for them. It continues even into death.

It is normal to expect that a wife would stand by her man, and not the other man during a confrontation. In refusing to aid her man (she locks out the help which Edgar had summoned and insisted that Edgar and Heathcliff settle it by fair means, though she knows the latter would knock the former's block off in a twinkling of an eye), she has broken her marital vows. She adds salt to injury by saying,"... I wish Heathcliff may flog you sick..."

Her love for Heathcliff, even after her marriage to Edgar, as she puts it is like the rocks beneath, whilst her feelings for Edgar was just like foliage in the woods Catherine's desire to have both, Heathcliff and Edgar, throws the accepted order of things to the dogs. This desire was confided to Nelly who finds the idea abominable. "You will find him not so pliable as you calculate upon: and, though I'm hardly a judge, I think that's the worst motive you've given yet for being the wife of young Linton." "it only goes to convince me that you are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying; or else, that you are a wicked, unprincipled girl." Her simple equation of, a=b, b=c, and therefore a=c (If I love Edgar, and I am Heathcliff, then Heathcliff must love Edgar.) "If Edgar and Heathcliff loved her then both of them will tolerate each other." This idea is scandalous, preposterous and unimaginable to the norms of our culture even in modem times, what more then.

Even in the first chapter of the second volume when Heathcliff enters her room, she maintains her selfishness of wanting her cake and eat it too. She does not want to lose Heathcliff's adoration. She hungers to continue to be the object of worship even when she has gone to the other world. "Will you say twenty years hence, 'that's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago; but it is past. I've loved many others since - my children are dearer to me than she was, and at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her, I shall be sorry that I must leave them!' Will you say so, Heathcliff?" Even when she is at her last throes of her life, this notion of possessing Heathcliff 'out-of-wedlock' stays as she begs him not to leave though her husband approaches. "Oh, don't, don't go. It is the last time! Edgar will not hurt us. Heathcliff, I shall die!

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Approximate Word count = 1635
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English