Catherine and Heathcliffs Passion in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Loves Destruction in Wuthering highIn the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, Catherine and Heathcliffs passion for one another is the center of the story. Catherine appears to struggle with her choices in love displaying immaturity in how she sees the love between herself and Heathcliff. Heathcliffs love for Catherine is more of a true love, however, true love soon turns into an obsession that leads him to madness and, eventually, his death.Catherine actually detested Heathcliff when they were younger. At their first meeting she sees a scummy, gross and poor lower-ranking child but as Mr. Earnshaw, Catherines father, integrates Heathcliff into the family Catherine comes to like Heathcliff and starts to spend a lot of time with him and they eventually become insepar able. Soon after Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley, Catherines brother, takes over Wuthering Heights and bans Heathcliff to the fields to be a common laborer. This banishment does not stop Catherine from seeking out Heat hcliff, it actually increases her adolescent love for Heathcliff.Catherine has a terrible incident one night when Heathcliff and Catherine where out playing around the Grange, she is bitten by a dog at Thruschcross Grange and is treated by Mrs. Linton, the mistress of Thruschcross Grange, and ultimately meets her son Edgar Linton. afterward staying with the Linton family for awhile, Catherine returns Name 2home a proper young lady. When she first returns home she is happily greeted, by the servants and her family. Catherine immediately asks for Heathcliff and mocks him how very black and cross you odour And how how funny and grim (47) She is quite displeased with the way his looks have changed since she has been gone. After thi... ...rom not eating properly and the stress that he has put himself through. Heathcliff gets buried skillful next to Catherines grave and has the side of his coffin facing Catherines removed so that as their bodies decompose their dust will intermingl e to take care as a symbol for everlasting love.We see in this novel that the love between Catherine and Heathcliff constitutes the center of Wuthering Heights both thematically and emotionally, and, if one is to do at all to the novel it is difficult to resist sympathizing with that love. The love that brings both the rise of Heathcliff and Catherine and the fall of both of them to the point that they die from not being able to express their love and obsession for one another because in actuality they are soul mates.Name 5Work CitedEmily Bronte, Wuthering Heights. Oxford University press, 1998