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Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” In Emily Brontë’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights, Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw along with their gypsy brother, Heathcliff, the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, live a completely altered life than that of Edgar and Isabella Linton. The Linton’s, inhabitants of Thrushcross Grange, live a lavish life of luxury and high social class. Protagonists, Heathcliff and Catherine, are inseparable and, as a result, an eternal love is formed. However, Catherine’s life changes once she meets the wealthy Edgar Linton. Seeing their extravagant lifestyle at Thrushcross Grange makes her want the same and she will do anything to have it. As a result of this desire, Catherine is frequently torn between what lies behind her; her love for Heathcliff which she has abandoned, what lies in front of her, her new blossoming love for Edgar and his social status, or what lies inside of her, her eternal love for Heathcliff and …show more content…
Heathcliff constantly struggles to reveal why Catherine has left him for Edgar and is always looking for a form of revenge. Heathcliff compliments Catherine on her taste in men and comments on how she chose to marry someone so weak compared to him (Brontë 115). Catherine also continues to wonder why Heathcliff has begun to show a sudden interest in her sister-in-law Isabella Linton when he returns to Wuthering Heights after being away for three years. In the excerpt Heathcliff’s Revenge from the book Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Bloom’s Notes, May Sinclair states, “When Catherine marries Edgar Linton, Heathcliff marries Isabella, Edgar’s sister, in order that he may torture to perfection Catherine and Edgar and Isabella” (Sinclair 38). Heathcliff marries Isabella to get revenge on Catherine and Edgar and by doing this he also ruins Isabella’s

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