Christian Echeverri
Wuthering Heights Essay
English 12th
2/18/14
Wuthering Heights Essay
The theme of Wuthering Heights focuses on the passion and love that Heathcliff and Catherine share together. Heathcliff and Catherine were raised together and formed and unbreakable bond that started as a sibling relationship into something much more powerful. As they grew up their love progressed and grew continuously. It was close to the perfect love story but the characters changed and with it so did their love. Both characters go from being exactly the same to being the total opposite by the end of the novel.
The first half of Wuthering Heights it centered around the drama and turmoil that filled the relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine, which took over the story. As the novel and story progress, there are events that show how many of the characteristics of the two characters become increasingly apparent. Once their character traits are revealed, it becomes obvious that Catherine and Heathcliff have differences that cause their relationship to become an increasingly difficult to maintain, but they have an even stronger bond that cause them to not be able to live without each other.
Catherine and Heathcliff have very different opinions about the importance of their beliefs involving social status. However, they share so many of the same heartfelt similarities and characteristics that they become a part of each other and because of that they need to be together in order to live, and when they realize that they cannot have each other they inevitably die.
Both Heathcliff and Catherine have many different traits shown throughout the book Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is brought into the novel by when Mr. Earnshaw comes back from London and brings Heathcliff along with him. Catherine becomes close with Heathcliff, but Hareton does not like Heathcliff because he feels that his father likes Heathcliff more than him.
As children Heathcliff and Catherine both share similar interest, they become closer friends with each other. They both love to run around the moors and this is what changes Catherine into an unstable and wild child, and this sets her apart because she doesn’t act like a proper lady. They are very exploratory and love to go on adventures which cause trouble for everyone else.
In one scene Catherine and Heathcliff go to the Linton’s to spy and play jokes on them during their dinner time. Edgar Linton sees them and sends the dogs out to chase them down. Catherine gets attacked by the dogs and Heathcliff stays by her side to protect her, but the Linton’s tell Heathcliff to go home, and they keep Catherine a Thrushcross Grange to take care of her injuries.
Then during a conversation with Nelly, Catherine says, “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and his is as different as a moonbeam from lightning,