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Question: Catherine and Heathcliff!?
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Well, as many people have said under me, (or above me) their characters are unsavoury and mean and horrible (ect) and that is a debatable issue, but their love is real and true!.
It lasts beyond death, and that was one of the main points, I think, in two ways; Heathcliff feels her prescense (or it was something like that, I can't remember, I read the book a while ago) and also in the fact that its Cathy's child and Heathcliff's child!. But I did get confused a lot with all of the characters different names!. But, anyway! Their love is real; that is the point!. The point is that love truimphs over EVERYTHING!. Death, evil, selfishness, logic - all gone!.
I think the reason a lot of people have issues with this book is because it's so different!. All other love stories have reasonably nice characters, or at least one nice person, because then it makes the reader want them to love each other and feels sorry for them, like in Romeo and Juliet and Pride and prejudice and even Twilight and Harry Potter!. This story doesn't do!. The characters are mean and cruel, and ruin their lives, in a way, and that is the point!. The reader almost doesn't want them to be together, because they are so mean!. People often forget about a lot of the better characters, particularly Catherine's daughter, who is also called Catherine!. (That confused me!. Aren't there any other names avialible in the einghteenth century!?) The book is a wonderfullly unique and a real love story, where everything isn't rose-tinted!. The love is real, though, in answer to your question!.

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Can you say dysfunctional!?

I wasn't sure which one annoyed me more: Heathcliff or Cathy!. Don't get me wrong: it's a great classic, but those two are irritating!. You have the ever-so-whiny Cathy who wants both the money/society AND Heathcliff (really fair to her husband, don't you think!?)!. Then you have the "I'm going to destroy everyone" Heathcliff, whose lust for revenge knows no bounds!.

As for love, I'll stick with Charlotte's Jane Eyre version!. That is one love truly worth having!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thoroughly unpleasant and ill managed, from start to finish!. Those are two of the most unsavory characters in literature and if that's romance I'll take celibacy, thank you very much!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well obviously it was no Romeo and Juliet romance, but it sure was a volatile romance all right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com