What Is True Love?

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What Is True Love?

What is a true love story?  Does true love even exist? Is it mandatory for all love stories to have the, “happily ever after” ending?  Is Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, a true love story since it doesn’t have an eternal gleeful conclusion?  Bronte takes a different approach to the romance of Catherine and Heathcliff, to show that sometimes there are barriers and obstacles in the way of what could have been an amazing relationship.  Wuthering Heights proves that during the Victorian period most people chose mortality versus their feelings, in guidance to the path they chose to live.  Over and over again throughout the novel, Catherine pronounces her deepest love for Heathcliff yet proves to be hypocritical against her claims of affection.  Examples of her hypocrisy are shown through their years of youth, adolescences, and adulthood.

        During their childhood, there was no doubt that Catherine and Heathcliff were a pair.  Mrs. Dean would even say that Catherine was too fond of Heathcliff.  That the greatest punishment they could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than anyone on his account, (41).  While the Lintons took in Cathy, she was accommodated as a true high-class young lady, thus she began to learn of the social norms and mannerisms for her stature.

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 Cathy, catching a glimpse of her friend in his concealment, flew to embrace him.  She bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaimingWhy, how very black and cross you look!  And how-how funny and grim!  But that’s because I’m used to Edgar and Isabella Linton, (52).  

At this point Catherine begins noticing the differences in her and his lives, where feelings were beginning to be outweighed by social class.

        As Catherine matured, she began to act as if she were better than Heathcliff.  She showed ...

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