Nelly, I Am Heathcliff
"Nelly, I am Heathcliff" – With this unusually leading statement, Catherine Earnshaw is able to profess her love for Heathcliff, the outcast and rugged villain of the novel Wuthering Heights. However, not only is this just a declaration of love, this statement also allows Emily Brontë to open a door to a world of much wider and deeper issues. She raises the idea of how there can be no place for one's true and authentic self in this over-civilised, bourgeois nineteenth century world, and depicts both Cathy and Heathcliff as being outside society to demonstrate this concept. The statement also implies that Cathy is more than just in love with Heathcliff, they are in fact so close that their very souls have become entwined allowing them to become part of each other. This notion is carefully charted by Brontë during the course of the novel.
From the very beginning of the novel there is an ecstatic chemistry between Cathy and Heathcliff that fails to waver throughout the story.......
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