“Wuthering Heights is an exploration
of human passion at different levels.” Discuss.
The story of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights revolves
around the passion that Catherine and Heathcliff felt for each other. These
passions run extremely deep and intense. These passions are normal, everyday
ones - love, hate, affection, contempt and revenge. These depicted wild,
untamable force are so violent, cruel, subjugating that more aften than not defies
all order and break all barriers.
F.H. Langman states "that the most
important thing in Wuthering Heights, its central experience, is the love
between Catherine and Heathcliff. What to make of it is another matter. The
intensity of this particular passion which Catherine and Heathcliff display for
each other goes beyond all physical and family barriers:
She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The
greatest punishment we could invert for her was to keep her separate from him,
yet she got chided more than any of us on his account. (Ch.V Pg. 40)
But in the eyes of the Lintons, Heathcliff
has no right to Catherine or to the privilages of her class. He is a
"gypsy", a "castaway", a "wicked boy, at all
events...... quite unfit for a decent house, while Catherine is " Miss
Earnshaw" and worthy of Linton respect and Linton attention.
The intensity of feeling between Catherine
and Heathclif defies family barriers imposed by Catherine's brother ,Hindley
after their father's death. Heathcliff was ill-treated by Hindley after the
death of the old Earnshaw:
He drove him from their company to the
servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate ...
He bore his degradation pretty well at first,
because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and work or play with him in the
fields. They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages, the young master
being entirely negligent how they behave, and what they did, so they keep clear
of him...... and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at........................................................................................
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