Journal Postings

Journal 1

When Mr. Earnshaw first returns home with the unfamiliar orphan boy, Heathcliff, who would now be raised as a member of the family, his children Catherine and Hindley do not take kindly to his welcoming and treat him with a great amount of disrespect. Although, Catherine soon grows to love Heathcliff and they become inseparable. This event first brings our attention to the main theme of this book, everlasting love. Catherine and Healthcliff’s love is rooted from their childhood. Their passion for one another seems to be the center of Wuthering Heights. It is the strongest and most dominant of all emotions represented in this book and is the source of most of the key conflicts that structure the novel’s plot. Catherine and Healthcliff’s loved is based off the perception that they are one. Catherine pronounces in the novel, “I am Heathcliff” as well as Heathcliff states he cannot life without his “soul” (soul being Catherine). Wuthering Heights presents the outlook of life as a process of change, and relates this process with the romance between the principal characters.