Thesis: Through the use of mistaken identity, fallen man, and social status, Emily Brontё reflects upon the human’s psychological state of mind in Wuthering Heights thus expressing the conflict of ...
TS: In Wuthering Heights, the motif of mistaken identity is found multiple times throughout the novel. It impacts the story as the reader can see how Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship is harmful to one another.
CD: For example, when discussing with Nelly about her acceptance to Hareton’s proposal, Catherine tells Nelly that Heathcliff is “ ‘more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same’ ” (Brontё 79).
CM: Through this quote , the reader can see how Catherine’s infatuation with Heathcliff is abusive to
Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Brontë distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Brontë perverts the vindictive hatred that fills and runs Heathcliff's life after he loses Catherine. Finally, she prolongs death, making it even more distressing and insufferable.
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"My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" (81)" These words, uttered by Catherine, in the novel Wuthering Heights are for me the starting point in my investigation into the themes of love and obsession in the novel. Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes. That she is obsessed by her love for Heathcliff she confirms in the above quotation and by saying that she will never, ever be separated from him. Why does she not marry him then? Well, she has
Heathcliff is abused; his only source of love is his dearest Catherine, yet even that love cannot thrive in Heathcliff’s environment. The problem is not that his love is unrequited, but rather that Catherine believes she would fall to ruin if she were to be with Heathcliff “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him---because he's more
Catherine’s crisis starts with her decision to marry Edgar Linton. “Yes, and it worries me, and I must let it out! I want to know what I should do. To-day, Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I've given him an answer. Now, before I tell you whether it was a consent or denial, you tell me which it ought to have been.”(77) Catherine starts to worry about the decisions she made because she realized she loves Edgar but not nearly as much as she loves Heathcliff. Cathy went on to admit this saying “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” (80) She knows she shouldn't marry Linton because she loves Heathcliff more than anyone else, but she does
Although characterized as a violent individual, Heathcliff’s love for Catherine exemplifies a lot of aspects of sympathy. The sorrow he was faced with when he overheard Catherine said that marrying him would degrade her, ultimately resulting in his
Catherine’s and Heathcliff’s relationship commences with both participants “... [promising each other] to grow up as rude as savages”
This line reveals Catherine’s love for Heathcliff, and how she feels
We can appreciate the affliction and despair of Heathcliff but still he is cruel and the sole guilty of their sorrow and pain. Catherine should have chosen him instead of Edgar so they would have been happy. But she destroyed their possibilities together and now Heathcliff, in one of his most cruel moments, tell Catherine that she deserves to die. Heathcliff is not a traditional gentleman, nor a man, and of course he is not a traditional lover. A common lover would wish his beloved to be at peace.
When Heathcliff returns three years later, his love for Catherine motivates him to enact revenge upon all those who separated him from her. Since he last saw Catherine, he has “fought through a bitter life”; he “struggled only for [her]” (Brontë 71). Nelly observes a “half-civilized ferocity” in Heathcliff’s brows (Brontë 70); she views him as “an evil beast…waiting his time to spring and destroy” (Brontë 79). Heathcliff’s obsessive love for Catherine becomes a menacing threat. Heathcliff reproaches Catherine because she “treated [him]
"And if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now" - Catherine.
He was not only a harsh individual, however. “Heathcliff can also play the romantic type” (Galef 244). This statement holds nothing but true, as he managed to court Catherine for numerous years, and also his wife Isabella, showing them both his affectionate side. The passionate thoughts of Heathcliff vanished after Cathy’s rejection, however, replaced with nothing but vengeance and rage as he set out to make her suffer.
Notably, Catherine’s first victim is herself. To enumerate, she was shattered between a desire to remain a free, wild child and her aspiration to maintain her respectability. In line with this example, Helene Moglen (1971) argues that, Catherine suffered from a divided self. This struggle is bluntly evident in her divided attraction between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton. According to Correa (2012), while Edgar is a perfect husband for her, in terms of genealogy and class, Heathcliff is part of her true self and whom she passionately loves in a way that sets everything else at defiance.
Heathcliff and Catherine’s introduction to the Linton family acts as the point in Wuthering Heights when racialization and othering have fully proliferated throughout Heathcliff’s environment, what with Catherine’s recognition of Heathcliff’s imposed racial and class inferiority. The earliest trace of Catherine’s shifting perspective is found in her reaction to Isabella’s claim that Heathcliff looks “exactly like the son of a fortune-teller”; hearing this, Cathy laughs (50). This is the first betrayal of many in Heathcliff’s eyes. Catherine’s shift in vocabulary becomes evident after she finally returns to Wuthering Heights, the girl unabashedly telling Heathcliff how “black and cross” he looks upon entering, and how his dark demeanor stands out because she is “used to Edgar and Isabella Linton” (54). In short, a mere few weeks at Thrushcross Grange has taught Catherine to consider Heathcliff a different breed of human being altogether. When considering the growing divide between Heathcliff and Catherine across lines of class and race, then, one can see that Catherine’s perspective offers what Nelly’s does not: it illustrates a deliberate shift from a mind full of mere adoration to one poisoned with feelings of superiority. To be granted insight into Catherine’s mind as she “gaze[s] concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her
In her statement, Catherine, is describing how strong her love is for Heathcliff. She states that her love will never end. Catherine states that she is one with Heathcliff, for they share the same thoughts and the same mind. This quote shows that the bond of love cannot be broken and will stand the test of time.