Puppy Love or True Love? By: Aren Dabaghian
In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte has written and depicted the imagery of Heathcliff living with the Earnshaws. Emily descriptively describes the harsh life that Heathcliff goes through when Mr. Earnshaw passes away, and Wuthering Heights is controlled by Mr. Hindley. Through these harsh times for Heatcliff, Catherine was gone with the Lintons because she was being healed from the bite of their guard dog. The books controversial issue is that if Heathcliff had a real love towards Catherine, or was it just puppy love throughout the whole book. Through these lonely times, I believe that Heathcliff was truly in love with Catherine because he had showed his love through his emotions, speech, and thoughts.
During the times that Heathcliff was with Catherine he would always be happy because he felt united and close to Cathy. Both of them would always laugh during the sermons that Joseph gave because they believed his sermons were really amusing and funny. They would always run away from Wuthering Heights to play at the open land together and be together as much as they can, so Hindley couldn’t separate them. One time they went to go to the Linton’s Thrushcross Grange, to spy on them and make fun of them. Catherine was so amazed by all the beautiful equipment that Thrushcross Grange had, and all the pretty clothes they wore. But Heathcliff seeing this said “I’d not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton’s at Thrushcross Grange” Heathcliff just showed that his love with Catherine is so bountiful and real that he doesn’t even want to live in luxury, as long as he is with Catherine he felt warm and unified. Even when Heathcliff was all alone he had lost part of his life, Catherine, he wanted to always see Catherine in front of him. Heathcliff said to Nelly “She is so immeasurably superior to them – to everybody on earth, is she not Nelly? Heathcliff would ask Nelly how Catherine was feeling at Thrushcross Grange. From all these quotes and written work by Emily Bronte shows Heathcliff’s love growing through his emotions, speech, and thoughts, and this is what I call true love!
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