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Wuthering Heights


            
            
             Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is the story of romance between the beautiful, high spirited, Catherine Earnshaw and the dark, handsome, Heathcliff, who was a small child taken in by Catherine's father. Between them there was a love that would be unable to develop because of the society in which they lived. Catherine is forced to decide whether to marry the servant Heathcliff, or to marry Edgar Linton and continue a life of luxury.
             At a very young age Cathy and Heathcliff were united as what appeared to be similar to siblings. As they entered early adolescence, the friendship between them began to grow into a deeper relationship. "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it" (Bronte 83). Cathy and Heathcliff did not always take pleasure in each other's company, but they felt necessary to each other. They both felt that they could not live without the other. "Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being." (Bronte 83). Heathcliff and Catherine were similar in the novel by both being about the same age and by their wild and headstrong behavior. Cathy would have married and loved Heathcliff, but because of his degradation, Cathy felt that their love could never develop. They had many similarities, which made them more compatible with each other, and it is a tragedy that social status forced them to separate. "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" (Bronte 81). .
             Catherine became quite acquainted with the Lintons and their luxurious and comfortable home. "The mistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily-(Bronte 53).


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