Wuthering Heights/Duality

Emily Brontë's controversial novel Wuthering Heights is the tale of two very different families living in two different houses, living two extremely different lives. Catherine is the character that draws them together. The attempt to house two radically different natures within the same body is demonstrated in Catherine's two houses of residence, her attraction to Heathcliff and Linton, and in her contrasting behavior throughout the novel. Wuthering Heights is the home in which Catherine …

…of the other. She almost adopts two separate personalities in the way that she goes about connecting the ideas of the two houses in her own mind. Through the connection of these two homes, she has fallen in love with two men, who are as differnt as night and day. Catherine has also managed to changer her behavior, doing almost a complete 180 when it comes to manners and the treatment of the people around her.