Love Relationships in the Scarlet Letter and Wuthering Heights
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Many readers argue that Bronte's Wuthering Heights is anything but a romance. Although it does not follow the conventional form of the Victorian romance novels, it can be argued that it is one of the greatest love stories of all time. The traditional forms of love may not be represented, but the love is there. What else but love could possibly drive the characters to the ends which they meet?
The relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff builds from their childhood until Catherine's untimely death. They are inseparable as children and spend all their free time together playing on the moors. When Catherine spends five weeks at Thrushcross Grange, she comes back changed. The Lintons have had much influence over her. She seems more polished and refined. After having spent time with this family, she begins to view Heathcliff differently because she is comparing him to Edgar Linton, who at this point, is infatuated with Catherine...