The Real Meaning Of Love In Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

The Real Meaning of Love In text The Story of Layla and Majnun, Majnun goes for his desire to marry Layla but goes through many obstacles that prevent him from doing so which include the rules of society during that time including requesting the father for approval of marriage. In the text Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff has a desire to be with Catherine but the marriage between her and Edgar is the obstacle between Heathcliff fulfilling the desire of the relationship with Catherine. In these two texts, we can see that the motif of nature play a major role to how the main characters express similar theories and perspectives of love towards one another. Catherine at

“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 or 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.” (81) Catherine is admitting that she and Heathcliff are meant to be together and not Linton because Catherine and Heathcliff’s souls have a connection while Linton’s is different from hers because Catherine describes Linton has having the complete opposite type of soul or personality. This quote relates to the motif of nature because Catherine uses metaphorical terms to compare her soul and Linton’s soul using “frost from fire” or “moonbeam from lightning”. In Wuthering Heights, when Heathcliff was younger, at one point he went off with Catherine to the moors to be together. “But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day, and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at.” (46) Later in the book Catherine describes her current life if she was living in prison and wants to go back to the past in order to be back to the moors to be

After multiple attempts and failures to gain approval, Majnun leaves his family and friends in his hometown to live in the wild for a couple of months. While Majnun is living in the wilderness by himself, Layla write and sends a letter to Majnun expressing her love towards Majnun. In this letter, there are many literary devices including metaphors that Layla uses to express her love towards Majnun. One quote “Beloved! Send me a hair of your head, and it will mean the world to me. Send me one of the thorns lying in your path, and it will blossom into a rose-garden before my eyes. Where your foot touches it, my Khizr, my messenger from God, the desert breaks into blossom; be my water of eternal life! I am the moon which looks at you from afar, to receive your light, my sun. Pardon my feet for being so weak that they can never reach you.” (129) Layla is expressing his love for Majnun even though she is married to another man that she was forced to marry prior to this. We see multiple nature terms that Layla uses to express her love metaphorically for example when she referred herself as the moon and Majnun the sun where he receives