Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights
The novel by Emily Bronte uses multiple relationships as a center focus in its story. Many of them are duplicate or complementary opposite of each other, and the story follows two main characters, Catherine Earnshaw Linton and Healthcliff. Catherine, who met Heathcliff as a child, is free-spirited and mischievous and she quickly befriends Heathcliff. Although both characters have different background and personalities, their lives intersect throughout the entire story. It seems as though Catherine and Heathcliff’s characters interconnect at different points. They are lovers and friends during adolescence, and they turn to opposites in later life when Catherine chooses to marry Edgar. Heathcliff eventually becomes selfish and mean, opposite of his double who at the same time becomes loving and caring. Since J. Hillis Miller defines doubles as a duplicate or a complementary opposite, and although they are both different meanings, I believe that Catherine and H...