Cathy and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights
It seems to be a simple love story of two suffering souls - Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. But this love can hardly exist in reality - it's a fantasy of Emily Bronte, she created a sample of a real eternal passion - powerful and boundless. Only death seemed to be stronger than it. Though, after Cathy and Heathcliff are dead, these similar souls joined... There's no doubt in it.
Remember Heathcliff's words:
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort ... You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? What right ... for the poor fancy you feel for Linton?
Yes, in Heathcliff's opinion, Cathy betrayed him, but not only him. She betrayed her heart, she betrayed herself.
Maybe this is the main problem or question touched in Wuthering Heights that is explored through all the novel. Cathy and Heathcliff grew up together, Catherine - passionate wild nature and Heathcliff - miserable pauper, but with the heart and soul, that are so suffered and wounded. They fell in love with each other at first sight. They kept each other, protected each other from angry and boring sermons of Hindley and from religious senile grumbling of Joseph.
It seems to us, such pure childish affection has to grow into something greater, So that began to do, but suddenly, we find out a new acting personage - Edgar Linton, young rich nobleman, he attracts for a short time (I repeat, for a short time) Catherine's attention. By her own words she had fallen in love with him. Why? What had she found in this man? Were they so much alike with him? Was it H...
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... on her heart. What is Heathcliff's reaction then? These are his words:
... and I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherien Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living, you said I killed you - haunt me, then!
This damnation is on his lips because of his terrible agony appealed by Catherin's death. If he is able to bear this? Such a trial. He has to have inhuman power to live. But he survived. He is alive, and he died many years later.
And who were Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff? Absolutely inhuman creatures. On our land there were no place for them, no things to do for them, such bright unforgettable people can be met very seldom, and even if they born, then they are suffering for all of their life. Powerful personalities, restless souls and ardent hearts. Such people, maybe, won't calm down after their death.
Heathcliff’s vengeance is always presented as the main problem in the novel, the source of distress that pushes all those around him to anger and sadness. With the dark portrayal of his character and his aggressiveness towards people that the reader is more sympathetic to, the injustice of Heathcliff’s conduct is easily discernable. In one section of the book, Heathcliff captures Nelly and her charge in an attempt to secure Thrushcross Grange for himself and demoralize Cathy. While the two are imprisoned at the Heights, Cathy’s beloved father Edgar lays four miles away, within days of passing away. The prospect of Cathy never being able to see her father again intensely sets the reader against Heathcliff and displays his unnatural cruelty in a vivid light.
Cathy contains power in death. In a criticism by Daniel Burt, he notes that Cathy in a way shows dominance over Heathcliff in her death. Instead of Heathcliff’s love for Cathy eventually diminishing, he yearns for her even more. He completely loses himself growing unbelievably mad in love he holds for the lady. For instance, one night Heathcliff wanders over to Cathy’s place to visit her once more. The typical meeting morphed into a horrific night. Nelly passes a message Heathcliff never expected to hear. She explains to him that the love his life Cathy passed away from the sickness she drove herself into. Heathcliff cries in a vicious roar, “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you-haunt me, then!” (Bronte 87). He permits her to taunt and torture him after Cathy’s death. This opens the door for Cathy to continue her reign over Heathcliff. He does not care on any level about the consequences of his wish or actions may bring. Heathcliff ultimately allowed the woman to drive him to the grave to rest and be with her for eternity; the love he grows for Cathy allows her to control man and even more so in her death. In short, the death Cathy entitles on herself only furthers her power and control over Heathcliff as he breaths on
Have you ever read a book where you have a hard time keeping track of characters and events and the order of the book? Well than you must have come across this gothic novel called “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte. She combines more than one element of a gothic novel and that is craziness, obsession and villain heroes. The novel is formed around the two similar love stories of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and the young Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. The motif of this book is full of doubles and repetitions; it has two protagonists as mentions earlier, Catherine and Heathcliff, two narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly, and two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In spite of all this, Emily Bronte wasn’t just torturing us for no reason but the cycles in violence and the repeating or scrambling the characters names even in intermarriages tells us that it is trapped in something overpowering and unresolved. Assume the chaos of doubling and repetition, their symptoms are increasing on an unresolved issue that drives this entire story around for the sake of Catherin and Heathcliff unresolved passion. Catherine and Heathcliff share a love so deep that the two souls seem to have intertwined into one. In result Bronte deliberately arranges the characters, and the place into pairs. She shows the particular difference on the double to demonstrate both the imaginary ideal and the tragic reality of relationships that are surrounded by the restraints of class, and society.
Her selfishness lies within the reality that she married Linton for the things he could have provided for her. Nothing parted Catherine and Heathcliff. Not God, nor Satan, it was Catherine herself – Catherine was the cause of her broken heart. Along with breaking her heart, she also broke Heathcliff’s, which led him to loathe and yearn for vengeance against what Heathcliff thought was the cause of Catherine’s death – her daughter.
Heathcliff and Cathy have a sadistic relationship. They are only truly in love when they are hurting each other. As Catherine lay dying, she wants Heathcliff, her love, to join her in death. She pleads to him:
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It would be false to consider Wuthering Heights a story of timeless, undying love. While Heathcliff’s incessant yearning for Catherine may pull on one’s heartstrings as an attempt to showcase the man’s everlasting devotion to one forbidden woman, under more precise scrutinization, it all appears to be a cover-up for Heathcliff’s true desire-- to climb to the top of the social classes for redemption from the trauma in his early life. Emily Brontë hints through Heathcliff’s characterization that his thirst for revenge spawns not from his unrequited love for Catherine, but from an insatiable desire to prove himself as superior to those who have wronged him.
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...e of joy and pain in Catherine’s life, as their love was so powerful that it can only be embraced by the extent of death. With many other important messages in the novel, the most important is the changes that occur in and between the characters. The numerous characteristic aspects, the characters in the story are enthralling. Although, Cathy Linton may be recognized as a duplicate of Catherine Earnshaw due to the parallelism of generations, their traits and personalities are entirely individual. Cathy is an innocent and fine young lady, and Catherine is a selfish evil monster. Throughout the progress of the story the reader can clearly appreciate the mismatched traist of the mother and daughter. And like, psychologists have said, “Often children avoid the ways their parents have gone”. Although Cathy doesn’t experience her mother ways, she lives the opposite way.
Heathcliff, who has been ill-treated by his foster brother Hindley, is obsessed by his thoughts of revenge: "I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!" (64).He comes back after three years, during which time nobody at Wuthering Heights or The Grange have known his whereabouts, and the first person he is eager to meet is Catherine. She reacts with a mixture of fright and passion, and accuses Heathcliff of being cruel as he has not been heard of for such a long time. His joy to see her again is unmistakable: "A little more than you have thought of me," he murmured "I heard of your marriage, Cathy, not long since; and, while waiting in the yard below, I meditated this plan: - just to have one glimpse of your face, a stare of surprise, perhaps, ...
" He's a lonely orphan who needs to be loved and this makes him seem like a poor little innocent child in some ways deceiving the reader. Mr Earnshaw's two children take to Heathcliff very differently. Catherine likes him and their relationship becomes very intense; Whereas Hindley does not take to Heathcliff very well at all.
She no longer like to mess around in the garden with Heathcliff, but learned proper manners. Everyone was excited for her arrival especially Heathcliff, but he was surprised with what occurred when he came back. When she returned she said some rude things to Heathcliff which she would have never thought of saying before spending time at the Linton’s. This instance foreshadowed her future decision in choosing to marry Edgar. Nelly mentioned that Heathcliff expected to see a part of himself return in Cathy, but he was saddened to see the change in character (56 ,57).
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In Wuthering Heights Cathy’s behaviour becomes destructive when Linton, her husband, forces her to choose between himself and Heathcliff. Cathy starves herself and after she finally eats she exclaims to Nelly “I’ll die – he’ll be glad –he does not love me at all”, here she’s attempting to show how Edgar doesn’t love her as he hasn’t come to her aid yet. This suggests how love has caused Cathy to exhibit self-destructive behaviour. The point is then furthered by the events of Chapter 11 when Cathy has an incredibly heated argument with Heathcliff and Edgar, when she is described as acting erratically and in a mentally unstable way, Nelly Dean describes how she “She rung the bell till it broke with a twang … it was enough to try the temper of a saint, such senseless, wicked rages! There she lay dashing her head against the arm of the sofa, and grinding her teeth, so that you might fancy she would crash them to splinters!” This extract shows just how extreme the self-destructive behaviour from Cathy is and she shown as physically hurting herself by hitting her head and grinding her teeth, so much so that blood drips on her lips. This self-destructive behaviour has been caused by Cathy becoming this distraught after Heathcliff returned and they had an argument in which Heathcliff claims Cathy has wronged him by marrying Edgar, then ...
The sympathetic part of Heathcliff shows through when he sees Catherine in the beginning stages of her sickness after childbirth. “He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold, for some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say…” (159). The sympathetic part of Heathcliff kicks in when he sees the woman he loves dying right before him. Heathcliff began to ask Catherine the questions he had not been able to ask her before, whether it had been due to his pride or to his absence - was insignificant., “‘...You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton?” (162). When the novel begins, it is mentioned that Heathcliff is shouting, “‘Come in! Come in!’ he sobbed. ‘Cathy, do come. Oh do - once more! Oh! My heart’s darling, hear me this time - Catherine, at last!’” (28). Heathcliff attempts to get Catherine’s ghost to speak to him, because his main goal is to be united with her in death. Heathcliff’s character changes relatively fast when he sees Catherine dying in her bed. There is a sympathetic side shown that has not been quite expressed before, and also the feelings that Heathcliff kept bottled