How does a person choose between the love of her life and her social safety? Today one might think again before making one‘s mind up, but for an 18th century women the answer was simple: Financial security and social status above all. As one begins to read this book, which is amongst those that are considered the greatest love stories of all times, Wuthering Heights reveals that the choice between the financial security and the true love was not always as obvious as one might think. In her struggle to get what she wants, Catherine Earnshaw must above all come to terms with what it is she really wants, for she cannot have both ways.
As she had grown up with Heathcliff, Catherine began to love him dearly. She preferred his company over Hindley’s (her own brother), and when reading the story of Heathcliff and Catherine, one soon learns that between the two of them lies a very special kind of a bond; a tie that to the reader seems almost supernatural. Catherine describes this bond the best herself, when, torn in two with facing that she has to decide between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton, confesses her feelings to Nelly Dean, a housekeeper at Wuthering Heights: “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” (Cp. 9, pg. 57). Brontë’s creation of characters is intriguing, and although given this, rather accurate, description of the relationship and emotions between Heathcliff and Catherine, one must make out on one’s own, how great their love is, as one carries on reading.
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