Catherine and Heathcliff The literary world has often chosen to focus on characters that intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their own benefit. Despite popular morals, characters that display an utter disregard for the well being of others and themselves are characters that are often deemed iconic and are thoroughly scrutinized. If only the characters of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights were as one-dimensional as that. Set on the mysterious and gloomy Yorkshire moors …
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…mind of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. What she came up with however, is hardly a social commentary on the human mind. Perhaps it is simply a book about characters. With darkness within and beauty without Catherine and Heathcliff are always stumbling back and forth between the two houses, physically and mentally. These two characters, although lost and reckless serve to illuminate some psychological truths about humans that tend to be overlooked, and possibly even denied.