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Recommended: All relationships in Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is novel written by Emily Bronte is a story about love. Not only love,

but also jealousy and vengefulness. The different types of love portrayed in this novel were

obsessive love, parental and family love, and last but not least true love. The different types of

relationships in Wuthering Heights that portrayed at least one of the three types of love were

Catherine and Heathcliff, Catherine and Edgar, Hareton and little Cathy, Heathcliff and Linton,

and Edgar and little Cathy. No matter what the situation was in Wuthering Heights they each

showed one type of love, even if it was for a short amount of time. In Wuthering Heights, there

was no such thing as one type of love, in fact there were numerous types of love portrayed in the

The first type of love portrayed in the novel, Wuthering Heights, was parental and family

love. The meaning of parental and family love in this novel is talking about the kids relationship

with a relative or parent in the family. In this novel parental and family love are both portrayed

in a negative and positive way. One positive relationship with a family member is little Cathy

and Edgar, her father. Their relationship is a positive, loving parental/daughter relationship. This

showed that little Cathy loved him every much and would do anything for him. No matter how

upset she has gotten over his attitude towards her, she shows and still listens to what he has to

say to her. When she is upset with him, she doesn't go off doing the complete opposite that he

asks of her, she continues with her life and at the end of the day ends up talking to him. It shows

that Edgar's love for his daughter was real by the things he did for her just like in this quote, "H...

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...rent types of love. Little Cathy and Edgar Linton portray

parental and family love unlike Heathcliff and Linton. The reason why is because Edgar and

Cathy have a special kind of bond that consists of love for one another, Heathcliff and Linton

have a bond, but does not consist of love what so ever. Also, little Cathy and Heathcliff have an

opposite bond compared to Edgar Linton and little Cathy. Heathcliff and Catherine portray

obsessive love by the way they acted. Towards the end of the book love only came from one of

them which was more obsessive since Catherine had moved on to Edgar, Heathcliff still wanted

her and tried everything to get her back. Last but not least Little Cathy and Hareton portray true

love. Both characters in the story felt affection for one another, it was not one sided at all, and

both were happy on getting married together.

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