Author Emily Brontë, in the novel Wuthering Heights, suggests, in my opinion, the theme, that humans of a higher social class wish to be accepted by society so much so that they ruin their own lives and try always to make others happy, unknowingly at first, but later, knowingly. First of all, Catherine Earnshaw realizes her undying love for Heathcliff, but, because he is uneducated and "gypsy-like", she marries the well off Edgar Linton. Throughout her marriage she feels her love for Heathcliff and it is this love that causes her sickness which leads to her death. Then, later on, her daughter Cathy Linton makes the same mistake. She doesn't know her true love yet, but is introduced to her cousin, Linton Heathcliff, and decides that she loves him. At the time of her father's death, she marries Linton, later realizing that he isn't her true love.…
