A comparison between "Wuthering Heights" and "Great Expectations"

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[...] It is a common sensation to want most what you cannot have, and in the case of Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations, Brontë and Dickens could not make it any more evident. Although the lovers both had their own specific problems and issues, these are two amazing love stories that truly allow the reader a deep insight about the emotional and psychological tendencies of human nature, and the true meaning of love and loyalty, as seen through the Victoria era. [...]

[...] A Comparison Between Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations In the Victorian era, there were many novels written about love and its consequences. Romantic love, particularly in this time period, is often characterized by the works of Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens, especially in the novels Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. While both relationships have many correlations between them, it is interesting to look at the elements of setting, social standing, and revenge. While these two couples are in love from the onset of youth, there are many obstacles in their way, which lead to despair and desperation. [...]

[...] After the wedding, Heathcliff comes back with a vast fortune, and he returns to see Catherine, and to find that she still loves him. Although Catherine understands that it is in her best interest and in the interest of her family to marry into money, she has a difficult time denying her intense attraction to Heathcliff. At a certain point, she does finally admit to loving him and wanting to be his wife, which is clear when she says would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; not because he's handsome, but because he is more myself than I am. [...]

[...] Havisham, marries Drummel, realizes her mistake and they divorce. Great Expectations ends on a hopeful, enlightened, with the words took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place and I saw no shadow of another parting from while Wuthering Heights reunites the couple, but only death (Dickens 484). Similarly, when Catherine meets Heathcliff, he is taken in as her adopted brother. She does not take to him at first, hating him just as her brother hates him. [...]