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Compare how authors of two texts present ideas about desireIntroduction Paragraph 1
WH- transcending love, empirical love is overwrought by WH- Freudian ideology that ‘ at the height of being in love the
desire, the Jungian interpretation that Heathcliff is Cathy’s boundary between the ego and object threatens to melt away’
shadow due to his spiritual love for her and the lack of destructive desire on HC’s part -Jungian theory he is her shado
desire between Edgar and Cathy and has control over her as a pleasure seeking and driven
individual. After her death he becomes a monomaniac’ Of bein
Talking in bed- use of nature to show the lack of passion more happy and dissolving with her’ active verb dissolving, to
and desire in the relationship, bound by oppressive societal one entity to be together in the grave to satisfy, complete their
conventions of marriage transcendental love.
One flesh- monotony of the relationship, dichotomy TIB- irregular rhyme scheme with a triplet rhyme at the end, th
between passion and isolation. idea that they are stuck with each other non-implicitly in
contrast to WH- where their only desire is to be with each othe
– I am HC’ irksome relationship, temporal references ‘ yet mor
and more time passes silently. Assonance, longevity of
relationship.
OF- relationship based upon isolation. Marxist -relationship is
dead because they are bound together by the laws of marriage
for better or for worse’ no escape-marriages during the 20th
century were based upon social conventions in regards to socia
financial status rather than one’s own choice, the lack of liberty
as a barrier to desire. ‘ strangely apart yet strangely close
together. ‘close’ adjective ambiguous geographically/mentally
Paragraph 3 Conclusion
WH- Cathy’s desire is self-debilitating- Marxist would WH- desire is almost presented as the protagonist’s hamartia a
describe her as a madwoman. Due to her separation from it inevitably leads to her death. Purpose being that social
HC she abstains from food. ‘pulling the feathers from the constructs took more precedence through the marriage to Edg
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