Tragic Love And Revenge In Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

It is indisputable that Emily Bronte’s classic Wuthering Heights is an authentic account of demonic love and revenge. The relationship between Catherine Earnshaw’s and Heathcliff is most often expressed as a tragedy. Due to the destructive nature of their relationship, it later leads to cruelty and betrayal. However, ‘passion’ in the novel is demonstrated as a building block and sole motivation for Heathcliff as he is oppressed by Catherine’s brother Hindley and the passion that drives his revenge. This focus will analyse and discuss the catastrophic nature of Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, an exploration of social conventions that regard to social class and marriage in the era that it was written. Additionally, at the end of the novel. This …show more content…
When Heathcliff returns to the moors he begins to play a game of chess with the characters of the same establstablished as he. The infatuation between Heathcliff and Isabella begins to get back at Catherine, Critic Rod Mengham suggests: “He is parodying what he understands as her own method of achieving influence and prosperity.” (Mengham, 1989, 66). This obsession of Heathcliff’s ambition to ruin the lives of these characters proves to be intense and cruel, Arnold Kettle writes: “The weapons he uses against the Earnshaws and Lintons are their own weapons of money and arranged marriages.” (Kettle, 1968, 38). It is dangerous for Isabella as she falls in love and later abused by Heathcliff also, it is disruptive as her brother disowns her because of their interaction, this is part of Heathcliff’s revenge to disrupt the relationships between family members. On the hand for Catherine Linton, as her physical and mental health deteriorates. At the end of the novel, Emily Bronte identifies and demonstrates the second-generation lovers of Catherine II and Hareton Earnshaw by comparing to first generation Catherine and Heathcliff. Mengham identifies and