Indecisiveness can be a big problem that plagues many throughout their lives. Some people have a hard time picking an item from a menu, choosing a college, or even deciding which haircut suits them best. Often, a person picks one thing, decides on another, and eventually goes back to the first choice made earlier. This is a problem faced by Catherine in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. In the novel, Catherine is forced to choose between two loves: Heathcliff, who she loves throughout her whole life, and Edgar Linton, the man she marries. Her conflict is analyzed in the following criticism by Sydney Dobell in the September 1850 issue of Palladium magazine:.
That Catherine Earnshaw - at once so wonderfully fresh, so fearfully natural - new, "as if brought from other spheres," and familiar as the recollection of some woeful experience - what can surpass the strange compatibility of her simultaneous loves; the involuntary art with which her natures are so made to coexist, that in the very arms of her lover we dare not doubt her purity; the inevitable belief with which we watch the oscillations of the old and new elements in her mind, and the exquisite truth of the last victory of nature over education, when the past returns to her as a flood, sweeping every modern landmark from within her, and the soul of the child, expanding, fills the woman?.
One can see through Catherine's transformations as she goes through different parts of her life, loving both Heathcliff and Edgar, that Dobell's assessment of her and her lovers is completely sound.
The one constant through Catherine's life is her undying love for Heathcliff. As a young child, she and Heathcliff are companions who hardly ever leave each other's sides. The following quote exemplifies their companionship. "The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from [Heathcliff]," (Bronte 35). The aforementioned quote shows Catherine's fondness and love for Heathcliff and it is at this point in the novel where one can see how that her adoration will only grow in the future.
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