Love Between Souls

The most memorable line is Catherine's saying, "I love him because he's more like me than I am." Catherine and Heathcliff were in fact different. Catherine will think more when facing the choice of love, she will think about the status, social status, food and clothing, but also how to let Heathcliff get rid of the lowly status. She, too, was attracted by Linton's gentility, and though she was not genteel at heart, she could sometimes pretend to be. So, "More like me." For many reasons, perhaps vanity, perhaps survival, perhaps social factors, she had to hide a part of her nature, she had to sometimes go against her heart. But Heathcliff was much truer, more true to his nature, more true to his choice. Heathcliff was more like Catherine than she was, and he did not need to think too much about other factors. This is the root of both love and tragedy. The love between Catherine and Heathcliff has impressed me most. They are the true love of souls. And those painful entanglements and even revenge, in such a love is understandable. It is often said of others, why is love at Wuthering Heights so monstrous and terrible, and even hurtful? They are not together, but the people around hurt all over. Their souls will not rest after death. Is this kind of love too terrible? I never thought of their love as worldly. If we take the secular view, it is easy to think that Heathcliff is a devil, Catherine is a foot in two green tea. I prefer to see it as the attraction and struggle of two similar souls. They are anti-secular in nature, so they are the only one to rely on each other in the secular environment. They are Allies, lovers, even mirrors. Until Catherine chose Linton over Heathcliff. It was not only a betrayal in the sense of love, but Catherine's betrayal of her soul and her faith. Heathcliff's greatest pain is not his own betrayal, but to see Catherine betray his soul to a boring world, is to see her suffer. His revenge was not abrupt. He identifies with a world where there are only two people. Others belong to a different, even antagonistic, world. He had little affection for them either. One of the saddest sentences in the book is, "If you didn't exist, the world would be a desert to me." Sadly, this sentence is not sweet words, but the most true portrayal.