Wuthering Heights

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte tells the story of a love affair that takes place two times in the story; first with Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar and then with the next generation of children, Hareton, Cathy, and Linton. In the first generation there is the presence of love but there is also a strong underlying current of hate and the want for revenge. In the second generation there is no need for revenge and the …

…Linton supposedly loved Cathy but later she finds out that he wanted her inheritance. In the second generation the true love was between Cathy and Hareton and the reason it was true was because neither of them had anything, everything they had was taken away by Heathcliff and yet they still managed to love each other. At the end of the story the reader realizes that Wuthering Heights was just an extra long soap opera.