Wuthering Heights is the story of two families that live on the moors in England and how the two families entwine themselves and is about the love and relationships that occur between them and their two estates. There is one relationship in particular, that is the derivative of most of the action in the story and that relationship is the one that exists between the first Catherine and Heathcliff. This relationship is important because although the two felt that they were one with each other and loved each other greatly it never amounted to anything. It was because of this, because of Heathcliff's pursuit of Catherine and his addiction to her that a significant portion of the action in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights occurs. Heathcliff's addiction to Catherine is the reason that there is all of the conflict, all of the turmoil, all of the anger in the book. His love for Catherine is just like that of a mind-altering drug; there are instances when he is on highs and when he is in withdrawal, it makes him moody and excessively angry, it makes him hallucinate, it makes him search for revenge and it makes him happy.
[...] Addicted and in Withdrawal Wuthering Heights is the story of two families that live on the moors in England and how the two families entwine themselves and is about the love and relationships that occur between them and their two estates. There is one relationship in particular, that is the derivative of most of the action in the story and that relationship is the one that exists between the first Catherine and Heathcliff. This relationship is important because although the two felt that they were one with each other and loved each other greatly it never amounted to anything. [...]
[...] He was doing everything he could to fill the void in his life that started when Catherine married Linton and then started to peak upon her death. Heathcliff spent lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. chase[d] idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plague[d] [him]. The irony is the only place ever needed to search was within” (Anderson). He tried to use other people to find his happiness. He arranged so that his son Linton married Catherine's daughter Linton. [...]
[...] He doesn't want to know what it will be like when she is living in the earth and he is on it. Heathcliff wanted to be together forever. It was not his choice; he did not want to quit his drug. His drug was out of supply and there was no way to get more. With no way to feed his addiction he went through withdrawal and was angry at the world. He wanted to be with Catherine, the one who he would not be forced apart from by any supernatural forces, only they themselves could do it, and unfortunately it happened. [...]
[...] He had discovered that Catherine and Edgar were going to marry when he overheard the conversation that Catherine was having in the kitchen with Nelly about having to marry Edgar because of the upgrade that it would be her in terms of position. Once he heard that though he took off and did not hear what really counted. Catherine planned to use that marriage to help Heathcliff. She was going to use some of the money to help Heathcliff get out of Wuthering Heights where Hindley was constantly tormenting him. [...]
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