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A 3 page paper which examines three similarities – how social structure is a barrier to true love, the role of outsiders in keeping the lovers separated, and the tragic sense that these love affairs are doomed in the mortal world and can only be fully realized in death – between the featured protagonist love affairs in each work. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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and detours. This describes two of the most memorable love stories in the history of Western literature, Charlotte Bront?s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights, and William Shakespeares 1593 play, The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Each work focuses on the love affairs of its protagonists. Wuthering Heights considers the romance between Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff, which began when
they were children and even continued after Cathys untimely death. In contrast, Romeo and Juliet explored a relationship between two passionate teenagers that blossomed over a period of a
few days, but these lovers, their intense passion had fatal consequences. Despite these differences, both stories have three marked thematic similarities that profoundly affected these love affairs and their
outcomes. First, historically, social structure has proven to be a most formidable barrier to true love. Several have described Wuthering Heights as "a novel of class conflict" (Langland 169).
All behavior and attitudes are strictly "dictated by norms of social class and power" (Langland 176). On the surface, the Earnshaws appear to be a working-class rural family,
but with the introduction of a young street urchin named Heathcliff, it becomes evident that class divisions are not the exclusive property of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to
Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken to treating him cruelly and calling him such derogatory names as "dog," "gipsy" and "imp of Satan"
to remind Heathcliff of his lowly status (Bront? 23). But at the beginning, Cathy and Heathcliff appear to be blissfully unaware of any social class distinctions until Cathy is
introduced to the opulence of Thrushcross Grange and its sibling inhabitants Edgar and Isabella Linton. Cathy is enamored by the life of the aristocracy, while the classless Heathcliff is
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