Compare the three women characters in Wuthering Heights

"Wuthering Heights", written by Emily Bronte, is the story of two households, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and the various attemps of the inhabitants of each house to unite these two manors. The female protagonists of the novel are mainly three: Catherine Earnshaw, her daughter Cathy, and Isabella Heathcliff. These three women are binded together, but are also very different from one another, as their lives begin from the same starting point, and slowly evolve …

…to escape through different ways: Catherine lets herself die, Isabella leaves with her child, and Cathy is let free after Heathcliff's death. The fate of these three women is tied between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange; in different ways, they all escape from the prisons they have willingly led themselves into. Cathy, however, is the only one who accomplishes her dream: to go back to her house, after the two houses have finally been united.