Extreme Love In Catherine And Heights

Register to read the introduction… Thundered Heathcliff with savage vehemence.” We as the readers know that Heathcliff was in love with Catherine and furthermore the language that is used by Heathcliff in this quotation shows emphatic love and passion between the characters, and the words that were used to describe Heathcliff’s showing his emotions i.e. ‘thundered’ and ‘savage’ demonstrate the extremities of love that is presented here and which can be referred back to the title. Another way love is perceived here is insanely. When Catherine and Isabelle discuss Isabelle’s love for her husband, Heathcliff in chapter 10 a point about destructive love is shown when the quotation ‘is she sane?’ emphasises that Heathcliff and Isabelle are the true example for acceptable love. Heathcliff is only in this situation to make Catherine jealous, and when Isabelle recognises this afterwards these quotations ‘I do hate him – I have been a fool!’ show that the words used like hate and the use of the exclamation mark makes these particular words more potent emphasising the destructive love that is now …show more content…
Also Catherine drove herself into insanity through self obsession in chapter 12. She thought that she was happy and loved ‘they could not avoid loving me’ Catherine possibly liked the fact that she had two contrasting personalities fighting over her love. On one side it was the ‘dark gypsy’ Heathcliff and on the other side it was the ‘handsome pale man’ Edgar, with such contrasting personalities these characters were deemed to fight each other for the women the loved. So for Catherine to fill her empty space she disallowed her love to Heathcliff, causing a knock on effect for him to turn obsessed with unfulfilled