Wuthering Heights Relationships

IMBALANCE IN NATURE Since the dawn of human thought, man has sought to define the relationships between all things surrounding him. He categorizes every living creature, labels every natural element and names every phenomenon. He then connects each object to another with a line and draws the line back to himself. This way, he feels omnipotent, confidently grasping the ‘essence’ of his world in his hands. Such behavior seems to have peaked in the nineteenth …

…two families until Heathcliff's death. Linton, Isabella, Catherine and Edgar, all tainted by Heathcliff’s impurity, are gone by the end of the novel. The unnatural interjections therefore, die with Heathcliff; no remnant of his evil remains. With the marriage of Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange are finally returned to normalcy. Equilibrium is restored and Brontë’s world is once again, the bright and shinning society the novel began with.