Love in Wuthering Heights
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- Created on: 13-01-17 19:03
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- Wuthering Heights-Love Quotes
- "I am Heathcliff"
- Page 82
- Cathy believes in souls and believes that her soul and Heathcliff's soul are matched which contrasts to Edgar who she believes has a soul that is the opposite of hers which indicates the true feelings that she has for Heathcliff.
- “I
love him more than ever you loved Edgar”
- Page 102
- As this is said from Isabella to Cathy it indicates how intense passion is as it becomes evident later on that Isabella does not love Heathcliff but her passion makes her believe that she does. It also raises questions of the definition of love as passion can be seen as a segment of love and Isabella's infatuation with Heathcliff is not completely different to Cathy's with Edgar.
- “one
loving and desiring to esteem; and the other loving and desiring to
be esteemed”
- Page 316
- This presents love as being when two people's desires and needs compliment each others. However, this would suggest that Cathy and Heathcliff were not in love as Cathy desired status and Heathcliff did not.
- “it
was easy enough to win Mrs Heathcliff's heart”
- Page 316
- despite being presented as difficult and complicated throughout the novel, Nelly claims that Catherine found love easy. This may suggest that true love is easy and Catherine is the first to experience this. However, Nelly is an unreliable narrator and her happiness may overcome her judgement of the difficulties of love that the characters have faced.
- Love and a question (choices of love)
- The Long Finish (marriage)
- One Flesh (marriage)
- Meeting Point (love overpowering everything)
- After the Lunch (Listening to the heart)
- "I am Heathcliff"
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