Wuthering Heights
‘Til Death Do Us Part
"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I AM Heathcliff!" (Bronte, 77) This view of love and marriage is seen all throughout Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It seems awkward to our modern day society because we aren't raised in a society where marriages are arranged and therefore it is difficult to understand why these people would marry. But on the contrary most people can understand and have maybe witnessed marriages based on financial status and the benefits of "marrying money". In the Wuthering Heights there are three main examples of where the misconstruction of marriage is comparable to those of modern times.
Firstly, there is the example of the marriage between Catherine Linton and Linton Heathcliff. This marriage was arranged in order for the......
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