Wuthering Heights1

In Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights the idea compensation for love lost is discussed. Wuthering Heights is a quiet house in the country where the Earnshaw’s and Heathcliff live. Heathcliff loves Catherine Earnshaw very much but, she decides to marry another man, Edgar. Heathcliff marries Edgar’s sister just to make Catherine jealous. At the end Heathcliff abandons his plan for vengeance and professes his love for Catherine only to see her die soon …

…key to happiness through irony, through plot, and through characterization. The characters are consumed by desire to have revenge on the people who have tormented them. The people in the novel stop at nothing; not realizing the serious affect that they have on themselves and on other characters. At the end revenge--not love-- is what compels the characters in all the key moments in the novel. Bibliography p.6 Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. London: Orion House, 1973.