True Love or True Lunacy?
According to author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, “Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you…” This exemplifies the message about love that Emily and Charlotte Bronte convey in both of their novels. To the characters in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, love seems simple at first, but then turns into a forceful void none can escape. It is with this that the Bronte sisters display that it is better to act knowledgeably rather than emotionally when faced with the insanity that is falling in love. The repercussions from acting solely on emotion due to love are presented constantly in both books, with negative portrayal. Through Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, the Bronte sisters …show more content…
When the characters in the novels act solely on emotion and feeling, chaos ensues. In Wuthering Heights, there is constant disorder amongst characters due to heavy reliance on acting through “love” rather than thinking through what the most sensible decision is. The characters are all so focused on finding the right person for them that they fail to use reason as to what true love really is. When young Cathy talks about being in love with Linton when she has only seen him two times before, Nelly states, “I might just as well talk of loving the miller who comes once a year to buy our corn. and both times together you have seen Linton hardly four hours in your life!”(Emily Bronte 234). Cathy stating that she loves Linton is ridiculous to Nelly. Nelly sees that with all this talk of love and that being the only thing on the other character’s minds, they are losing ratiocination. Their talk is becoming unsensible and with true love being their goal, they are losing the real way to find it and allowing chaos to take over reason. Because of the naive nature of the characters, they are missing out on what love truly means, which leads to pandemonium. Charlotte Bronte illustrates this similar theme in Jane Eyre, but instead by demonstrating Jane as someone who considers all options and thinking before being in love, causing minimal turmoil in her and Rochester’s relationship compared to Wuthering Heights. Jane says, “...though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him,”(Charlotte Bronte 203). Jane is not someone that just says that she is in love to be in love, she has to mentally be in love with that person. She is listening to what her brain is saying as the right thing to do rather than just her
According to author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, “Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you…” This exemplifies the message about love that Emily and Charlotte Bronte convey in both of their novels. To the characters in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, love seems simple at first, but then turns into a forceful void none can escape. It is with this that the Bronte sisters display that it is better to act knowledgeably rather than emotionally when faced with the insanity that is falling in love. The repercussions from acting solely on emotion due to love are presented constantly in both books, with negative portrayal. Through Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, the Bronte sisters …show more content…
When the characters in the novels act solely on emotion and feeling, chaos ensues. In Wuthering Heights, there is constant disorder amongst characters due to heavy reliance on acting through “love” rather than thinking through what the most sensible decision is. The characters are all so focused on finding the right person for them that they fail to use reason as to what true love really is. When young Cathy talks about being in love with Linton when she has only seen him two times before, Nelly states, “I might just as well talk of loving the miller who comes once a year to buy our corn. and both times together you have seen Linton hardly four hours in your life!”(Emily Bronte 234). Cathy stating that she loves Linton is ridiculous to Nelly. Nelly sees that with all this talk of love and that being the only thing on the other character’s minds, they are losing ratiocination. Their talk is becoming unsensible and with true love being their goal, they are losing the real way to find it and allowing chaos to take over reason. Because of the naive nature of the characters, they are missing out on what love truly means, which leads to pandemonium. Charlotte Bronte illustrates this similar theme in Jane Eyre, but instead by demonstrating Jane as someone who considers all options and thinking before being in love, causing minimal turmoil in her and Rochester’s relationship compared to Wuthering Heights. Jane says, “...though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him,”(Charlotte Bronte 203). Jane is not someone that just says that she is in love to be in love, she has to mentally be in love with that person. She is listening to what her brain is saying as the right thing to do rather than just her