Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this lo...
However, due to the monotony of life on the Yorkshire moors, her desperation to leave home and run off with a mysterious man for some excitement seems understandable. ... 'Wuthering Heights' is set in the lonely, bleak Yorkshire moors. ... Obsession is the final element that has been used to portray disturbed characters. ...
This relationship is out of keeping however, with the rest of the book and turns the final chapters into that of a typical novel of the rime with the usual happy ending that has become accustomed to most novels in English Literature. ... However, one night while playing out on the moors, Catherine was injured at the neighbouring Thrushcross Grange by the Lintons" dog. ...
However, when Nelly narrates, the tone shifts between desperate, compassionate, and a strong sense of foreboding because Nelly has witnessed the true love between Cathy and Heathcliff, and also the final outcome. ... Catherine tells Nelly about her dreams; how she was weeping in heaven in order to come to the earth and how the angels threw her on to the moor. ...
