Is Wuthering heights a love story?

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Is Wuthering heights a love story?

Is this essay I am going to discuss whether Wuthering heights is a

love story or not. There are several reasons for saying that the novel

is a love story and there are several reasons that state that

Wuthering heights is not a love story.

The trational love story has the perfect characters which always

somehow no matter what the contions always manage to find there ideal

partner. The setting is really simple and there always is a perfect

climax despite what the obstacles are.

The term love is used too loosely and is not specified if the love

they mean is love for the family or sibling love then yes Wuthering

heights is a love story. Romantic love is an aspect of the story but

in my own personal opinion the romantic love aspect is not the be all

and end all of the novel.

The novel has many conventions which indicate that it is a love story.

For example the setting. The settings very typical of a love story.

Two families living in different houses and the houses are separated

by the mores and it seems really simple until a complication is

introduced, "bring that gipsy brat into the house". This is referring

to Heathcliff when he is brought home from Liverpool. Some critics say

that Heathcliff is a complication to the family and imperticualy Cathy

because if Heathcliff was not around Cathy and Edgar would have been

married with no major problems and without the complication of Cathy

loving Heathcliff. But there is no evidence to prove this information

is true. Another aspect of the setting that makes the novel seem like

a typical love story is the way Cathy and Heathcliff grow really close

then Cathy has an accident and has to stay with the Linton's and then

she falls in "love" with Edgar and decides to marry him. This seems

like a perfect romantic set up.

The characters also make the novel seem like it is a love story

because it again fits in with the way a typical love story is written.

The way there is a rich person and a poor person and they are both

batterling for the hand of the lovely young lady. Is this case the

poor person is Heathcliff the rich person is Edgar and the lovely

young lady is Cathy. The problem is Cathy marries Edgar not knowing if

she is in love with him or not "I shall marry him: and yet you have

not told me whether I'm right" this shows that she is not really sure

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