Romeo and Juliet vs Wuthuring Hights

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iam writing a comparing essay between romeo and juliet and cathy and heathcliff in wuthuring hights .They are both forbidden loves. Romeo can't be with Juliet because their families are feuding. Heathcliff can't be with catherine because he is looked down upon and catherines brother wouldn't allow it. In Romeo and Juliet a marriage is forced upon her to marry Paris just like catherine in withering heights had to marry edgar...both loveless arranged marriages where the man loved the woman but both Juliet and catherine didnt truly love them back. Lastly, there's the idea of finally finding love after death when Juliet kills herself to be with Romeo in the afterlife after she finds him dead in the family tomb. Catherine dies and heathcliff is burried in a grave next to her... If I have that part of the story right Heathcliff's revenge is through jealousy of Catherine's marrying of Edgar whilst Romeo's behaviour was through hatred and despair after Mercutio's death. Although both are done with not much rationality due to the emotional response from the loss of a loved one Heathcliffs reaction was more of revenge focused on Edgar by trying to claim Thrushcross Grange in a similar way Edgar claimed Catherine. Whereas Romeo's reaction was focused on Juliet and his pain of her loss and want to be with her.Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, is an epic romance novel of the Victorian Era. Throughout the novel, it intertwines the lives and hearts of two family names, the Linton's and the Earnshaw's. Love is able to bring them together, but revenge and animosity pulls them apart. In Wuthering Heights, the characters confess their love to each other and rush into marriage even though they do not truly love one another. It is often influenced by money and greed. In a way, it is somewhat like the Victorian version of Shakespeare's epic Romeo and Juliet. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering
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