Due to Heathcliff and Catherine's love relationship, Wuthering Heights is considered a romantic novel Throughout Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff's personality can be defined as dark, menacing, and brooding. He is a dangerous character, with rapidly changing moods, capable of hatred, and incapable, it seems, of any kind of forgiveness or compromise. Heathcliff's life is marked by wickedness, love, and strength. His dark actions are produced by the distortion of his natural personality. The depiction of him …
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…problems such as love and hate, or revenge and jealousy. Catherine and Heathcliff's misfortunes, recklessness, willpower, and destructive passion are unable to penetrate the eternal love they share. Their love and betrayal towards each other is what leads to their demise. The novel proposes that death is the only way to find the love that is unrequited in life, that the only way Catherine and Heathcliff can find peace is through the release of death.