riends because of a conflict that happened between them before their children were born. Parents should discuss in detail how they feel about other people's children with their own kids. These parents should not be able to simply prohibit their children from associating with other people. Children today have so much more power to reason with their parents than they did in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now we are expected to voice our opinions and concerns about a particular subject. In those times children were expected to accept whatever their parents told them, no questions asked. Today even if parents tried to keep their children away from someone there are so many things kids can do to bypass their parents' wishes. We have so many methods of communication today that the children of Wuthering Heights never had the luxury of using. Catherine could not call Wuthering Heights from Thrushcross Grange on the telephone and speak to Linton. She could not send him a private e-mail over the Internet. We take the privacy of these forms of communicating for granted. Children interact at school and extracurricular activities everyday. I feel that children would be able to settle a conflict like this today very easily. It does not take much effort to communicate anymore, even over long distances. Children would take the matter into their own hands, like Catherine did, and if they think and act carefully there is not much parents can do to stop them. The conflicts that arose between parents and children in Wuthering Heights would not arise today, mainly because of how different and accepting society is today than it was during 18th and 19th century England. ...
