How Does Bronte Present Love In Wuthering Heights

In both novels, the position of women within society limits their freedom to fall in love with whoever they wanted to, and this presents the love as a matter of ease rather than true feelings of love. During the 19th century when ‘Wuthering Heights’ was written, women often did not choose a husband based on emotional or sexual connection, instead choosing someone who could support them and their future children. Bronte explores this idea of conventional love through the characterisation of Edgar and Cathy’s relationship. Cathy’s love for Edgar Linton is influenced by him being “handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich,” and he loves her, ergo making him society’s idea of a worthy husband. Contrastingly Bronte explores a more emotional romantic love with the characterisation of the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff. …show more content…
Cathy understands the relationship is misguided, and is preventing her from being “at peace” with God, instead she sustains the relationship with Heathcliff, despite her sufferings. Bronte’s authorial intention is to demonstrate to the reader Cathy’s romantic feelings towards Heathcliff, and she is willing to be in “hell” as long as she is will him.This desperate love is similar to Jay’s feeling towards Daisy in ‘ The Great Gatsby’, which is characterised as illogical but genuine. Although it seems that Daisy reciprocates these feelings before she marries Tom, when she demands that the wedding party know that “Daisy's’ change’ her mine!”. The exclamative sentence highlights the suffering of Daisy and her apparent romantic love for