. Ellen remarks that they seem to be more like animals than humans. It is a relationship that is "concerned with a breaking through beyond the self."3 I feel that their love was about discovering themselves and each other. Heathcliff becomes angry when she chooses Edgar's love over his own and runs away, trying to make himself a person that can offer the same qualities as Edgar. The two men quarrel upon his return, adding to the hatred that they feel for each other. The men try to pass this hatred down to their children, Catherine and Linton. The two young cousins do not understand why they were expected to feel this hatred. They were instead very much interested in each other. As the children grew up they fell in love. Heathcliff and Edgar would not accept this. They both forbade their children form seeing each other. This is where the conflict between parents and children develop. Linton, the weak child, can do nothing to protest Heathcliff's refusal to let him see Catherine because he lives in fear of his father. He does not agree with him but lacks courage and strength to let Heathcliff know how he truly feels. Catherine is much more passionate. She tries to appeal to her father and begs him to let her visit Linton. When he refuses she sneaks out of the house to visit her cousin and she also sends him letters, which are secretly delivered by the dairy boy. When Edgar realizes that he is being deceived he completely cuts off all contact between the cousins. The two men forbid their children from seeing each other because of a hatred that developed between them over a woman that they both loved. The woman died giving birth to Catherine and before Linton was even born so the two young lovers never even met the person who their fathers were quarreling over. I do not feel that this conflict would arise in the same fashion today. I feel that parents today would not keep their children from being f...
