In life many people are looking for true love, but in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë "true love" can really be mistaken for false relationships forced by society. The story of Catherine, slightly selfish, who longs for Heathcliff, but must ensure she does not become a homeless beggar, and then of Heathcliff, a loner with a dark side, whose obsession with Catherine leads him to destructiveness and depression. They struggle to be together and eventually the cycle of life catches up to them. At the beginning Brontë describes Catherine and Heathcliff's love “She was too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separated from him: yet she was scolded more than any of us because of him” (33). Love is a recurring theme and conflict throughout the novel. For Catherine and Heathcliff, separation from each other was always the harshest punishment, their love was true and they cared for each other as if they were family. However their love seems to thrive during times of drama and heartache, making it questionable how their love would last under peaceful circumstances. Catherine and Heathcliff are soul mates who grew up together and don't have the social capacity to get close to anyone else but each other. They are not in a romantic relationship because they are too young to experience love on a mature level. When Catherine is twelve years old she goes to Thrushcross Grange to become "proper", while there she meets Edgar and at the age of fifteen the two become engaged. This is the moment when Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights, because he believes that the love between Catherine and Edgar is false. This accusation from Heathcliff is true, Catherine decides to marry Edgar based on what financial support she can... middle of paper... is maddening anger. To express his hatred and disappointment for Edgar, Heathcliff uses a word like “puny” which means weak or small. Heathcliff believes that Edgar robbed him of Catherine and now the reality of the situation, combined with his jealousy, is driving him to despair. Ultimately, Heathcliff dies a slow, lonely death; perhaps he allowed himself to starve, thinking that his heart is hungry from missing Catherine, so his body must suffer the same. We will never know the full ending but it can be interpreted in many ways. Heathcliff, Catherine and Edgar are all buried next to each other, supposedly "resting in peace", the irony in itself, the three of them finally peacefully together, is chilling. It's a shame that the love between Catherine and Heathcliff has flourished dramatically because the only time it has calmed down they are both six feet tall..