Theme Of Wuthering Heights

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In Wuthering Heights, love is the epitome of this love bound story. But, as the story progresses and the love between Catherine and Heathcliff greatens, their lifestyles do not improve for the better of each other. In their relationship, it is hard to say that their love is romantic, when indeed they are just causing more misery in each other’s lives. A theme in Wuthering Heights is destructive love, how love just causes more misery in one’s life. Although Catherine and Heathcliff love each other, they both had to live a different life. Catherine was forced into marrying Edgar Linton, even though she was still passionate for Heathcliff. Likewise, Heathcliff married Isabella Linton while still loving Catherine. Catherine’s marriage led to a happy life, until Heathcliff married Edgar’s sister just to disrupt Catherine’s life. As for Heathcliff, his marriage just caused more problems. First, he did not like Isabella and caused pain to both her and his own life. Also, he nevertheless weakened his relationship with Catherine. Heathcliff caused a greater dilemma in their relationship by marrying Isabella just for the sake of revenge. He did not like Isabella but married her to get closer to Thrushcross Grange. He not only deceived Isabella’s love, but he also abused her like how he was abused as a child. This action of marrying Isabella had many consequences to it. Most importantly, this decreased the health of Catherine. She had been ill from the many conflicts that were disrupting her life. This action was one of the conflicts which eventually led to the death of Catherine. Destructive love was a key part of Catherine’s life. When Heathcliff disappeared, she was sad, but resilient and got married not too long after. The love life between her and her husband was strong and faithful until Heathcliff came back and gave her something to worry
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