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Passion and Reason in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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narrative still defies close analysis, as there are so many details that simply do not "fit" in what most people take to be a tale of thwarted romance. For two  people who supposedly love each other passionately, Catherine and Heathcliff treat each other abominably throughout their relationship. An examination of Bronte portrays the faculty of reason, in addition to the  passion of the work, illuminates the true nature of the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. The author of Wuthering Heights is almost as enigmatic as her protagonists. Emily  Jane Bronte was born July 30, 1818, the fifth of six children, to Patrick and Maria Bronte. Her father was curate to a small isolated hill village surrounded by moors,  a location that would later provide the setting for Wuthering Heights. A loner, Emily was closest to her sisters, Anne and Charlotte and her brother Branwell. She began writing poetry  at an early age and published twenty-one of her poems in collections with her sisters, under the name of Ellis Bell. Her best known work is Wuthering Heights, her only  novel. She died roughly one year after its publication on December 19, 1848. She became ill while attending her brothers funeral and died of tuberculosis after being ill for around  three months (History of Emilys Life). A superficial reading of Brontes classic novel inevitably leads the reader to a understanding of the novel based on an undying romantic love. However,  a deeper reading leads to a "growing sense of wrongness" concerning this interpretation (Thormahlen 183). The adult reader asks "What truly infatuated teenage girl tells a confidante that marrying  the boy from whom she claims to be inseparable would degrade her?" (Thormahlen 183). On the other hand, Catherine also asserts that "loves" the ground under Edgar Lintons feet