“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)
