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Self-destruction in Wuthering Heights

“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the
heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Chathrin from the novel ''Wuthering Heights'' says this quotation to emphasize how she
wants to be expelled from heaven just to be with her lover Heathcliff in Wuthering
Heights.It strikes me how one is willing to be self-destructive for his/her lovers. Is self-destruction the highest prize one could give to his/her partner? Is loving someone a kind of self-destruction? when one is willing to sacrifice his/her life, his/her welfare in order to please someone else?

Heathcliff says “And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”

Aug 7, 2015 11:55 PM