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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights told a complicated love story among

Catherine ,Heathcliff and Edgar. And of course they three were suffered from this a lot until their death.

After reading this novel, I was shocked badly by the emotions of these characters through which our writer expressed a plenty of thoughts. Now I want to pick out two points of them to give voice to my own opinion. Firstly, why the Gypsies like Heathcliff were looked down upon by the other people. Secondly I would like to talk the selfishness of the love between Catherine and Heathcliff.

When it comes to Gypsies, it will make us think of freedom, passion and magic ,in other words , it seems that the Gypsies possess the ability of reading the other people's minds. However, it is also the nation always coursed and insulted by the others. The reason for that was the Gypsies have been keeping migrating form their appearance. Even nowadays nobody can explain why they must do such things, which also made them surrounded by a mysterious air. Though the Gypsies is an independent nation,they have no motherland and many basic human rights. Just like Heathcliff in this novel who always been laughed at by the so called "superior " people despite of his brightness and gentle looking. I maintained that the sense of shame was a most cause of his contortion and vengeance. Because of this self-abasement, Heathcliff did not dare to win the love of Catherine .

Now let's shift our attention to the selfishness of the love between Heathcliff and Catherine . As a noble Miss ,Catherine thought she and Heathcliff were not well-matched for he was a poor and inferior farm boy thought they loved each other from childhood. One of the unbelievable reason gave by Catherine for her marriage with Edgar was she wanted to help Heathcliff by using her husband's money. And the other one was she could be the most important lady miles around by marrying Edgar. It was very clear that this kind of selfishness was the radical reason for their tragic endings. So was Heathcliff.

He owed his failed marriage to Edgar and the others who ever turned up

their noises at him. He cheated Isabella,sister of Edgar, and forced his son to marry Cathy ,daughter of Catherine and Edgar, in order to get Edgar's inheritance. I thought he never loved anyone except himself and Catherine . Maybe death was really a liberation for him to get himself out from the guilt and sorrows hidden in bottom of his heart. Luckily, after his death, Hareton and Cathy fell in love with each other and would live a happy life.

Love is about giving not getting and Selfishness is what will ruin it. There was no doubt that Wuthering Heights was a thorough tragedy if we read it from this point.