Wuthering Heights

            Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's wildly passionate best-selling literary masterpiece, written in 1847, is still considered one of the greatest romantic books ever written about the eternal love between two soul mates, an adopted gypsy boy Heathcliff and manor-born Cathy.
             The intensity of feeling between them defies the family barriers imposed by her brother after their father's death. Heathcliff is ill treated by the brother as he does not like him but Heathcliff bears the degradations well because of his love for Catherine and the minute they meet alone he forgets all the degradations and humiliations that her brother metes out to him. Even when Catherine grows old enough for the question of marriage to arise, her relationship with Heathcliff remains the same as when they were children.
             My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff"s miseries; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perish, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. (Bronte, Emily).
             Then Catherine meets Linton, a rich man, compared to Heathcliff who is poor as a beggar, who also falls for her. She decides to marry him for all the practical reasons. But even with this decision of hers she doesn't forget Heathcliff .
             My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees-my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff-He's always in my mind-not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself-but, as my own being-so, don't talk of our separation again-it is impracticable. (Bronte, Emily).
             Although there are many different important messages in this novel, the main value is the changes that occur in and between the characters as in real life.