Love and Hate

“[those] Who love too much, hate in the like extreme”
Alexander Pope from The Odyssey of Homer


Love and hate are two of the most obvious contrasts in the world today. Those two emotions can seemingly take individuals over as human beings. If Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, it is ruling passions that overcome a life. Heathcliff’s character is a perfect model of love and hate taken to the extremes. His deep and sincere love for Catherine versus his hatred for all others creates a struggle within him; these passions do rule a life.

Heathcliff and Catherine’s love blossoms on the moors of Yorkshire, England, where the novel is set. Heathcliff’s adoration for Catherine begins soon after his arrival from the streets of Liverpool and the kindred spirits spend days together playing on the moors of the rugged land of Wuthering Heights. The two rely heavily on each other and their fervent love is made only stronger with each pass...