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Wuthering Heights is all about unrequited love. It is Emily Bronte's only novel, but this one novel has given her immortal fame. Failed and misguided love is the theme of the novel and when a luminous passion is hell bent on destruction, the force of the black passion exceeds the tender, brighter love. How destiny makes us all helpless, how love can destroy the lives of those who had loved is very poignantly expressed by the novelist. The film, Wuthering Heights is based on Bronte's work and love and hatred shares equal screen space in the movie just as in the novel.
The first version of the movie, Wuthering Heights was released in 1939. Cathy, Heathcliff and Edgar Linton were portrayed respectively by Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier and David Niven. Other important characters like Isabella Linton, Lockwood, Earnshaw were portrayed by Geraldine Fitzgerald, Miles Mander and Cecil Kellaway. The story revolves round the dark unfulfilled passion of Catherine and Heathcliffe.
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Catherine and Healthcliffe were not united in mortal life, Catherine married Edgar Linton. Heathcliffe plotted revenge, as he thought he was used and his love was abused. Dark and cruel intentions made him little less than a criminal and in away, he destroyed everything and everyone connected with his love. His love could not survive the realities of life, though it was perfect on an illusionary plane.
Wuthering Heights teaches a few lessons to Healthcliffe in the end. When he dies, it was with the light of love in his heart, though it came so late in his life, that there was no hope of redemption.
My Dear Valentine gives an insight into the tragic love of the Catherine and Heathcliffe, so stay connected to it.
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