Love Story?

[shish11]

I don't neccesarily think that Wuthering Heights is a love story. Firstly I feel that Catherine and Heathcliff's "love" is more of an obsession. I mean if you love a person don't you let them go once they're dead and you definately wouldn't make their daughter a slave. Heathcliff is obsessed with Catherine, he does not love her.
Is the violence, cruelty and revenge in the book not more memorable than the love stories?
I think the only true love in the novel is young Catherine and Hareton right at the end. Perhaps Hindley and his wife also share true love but she dies too quickly for it to be of too much importance.
I would love everyone's comments on this, please let me know.
I'm writing my final exam on Wuthering Heghts and need all the help I can get.


Another question that is very interesting is all the different narrators in the novel. Nelly and Lockwood are the main narrators but Catherine's diary also narrates and and Isabella's letter is part of the narration.
Let me know what you think of that and how you think Nelly narrating affects her status. She is a maid but has so much power as she dictates the story.

[samah]

I guess that I agree with you Heathcliff was obsessed with Catherine ,but maybe obsession is a kind of love , not all people love at the same way it depends on the human nature , and Heathcliff was cruel ,tough, and complicated person its more normal for his character that his love is obsession its like its his only way of love , and I think noone can live without love I wish I could explain this more but my english language is not very good , and about Nelly no doubt that she was more than a maid for all the characters in the story and she was very respected especially that she lived to watch two generations of the families there and when servants spend a long time in ahouse they become a part of the family especially in the community where the story happened its more a village community than a city community .

[miriel]

for reading the book so many times,i don't think that what heatcliff feels is merely an obsession.of course he seems obsessed with cathy but as they grow up together it is rather a love that doen't even requires a return.he loves cathy,not dearly but deeply.when he hears the conversation between cathy and nelly;he leaves to heal alone and to reach to the social status that will take cathy back.
and nelle is the half sister of hindley and all four grow up together.she is not just a maid.rather she is a kind of family member(she feels so thus she interferes so much and feels that all the destruction that she caused are justified)and she longs for power.she wants to be in control.she dislikes cathy for being a rebel and maybe for the anger that she feels deep inside for not being valued as a elder sister.she is a kind of arrogant,passionate maid.a kind of social climber like malvolio in 12th night