loses it all. She learns the meaning of evil, and Isabella is destroyed much quicker by this evil than Catherine was destroyed by the artificial atmosphere of the Grange. In time, Isabella finds the strength to run away from Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff, but her sprit is broken and she is forever changed by the truth of evil she has seen. The Grange had been a wonderful place to live, but the “fairy tale” of her existence there is broken and the tool that breaks it lies on the other side of the moors.The land encompassing these two estates is a part of English moors. Catherine and Heathcliff play in the moors between the two estates when they are children. This is the only time when they are truly happy. Heathcliff talks of them “running in the moors... creeping through the broken hedges, and losing shoes in the bogs of the moors...” The moors are where, in the end, their ghosts return and are free to roam. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte is able to use the setting of the English moors to show two different aspects of the world and symbolically, the destructive nature of love. At one end there is Wuthering Heights and the evil that results in the cruelty that its inhabitants force upon each other, while the other end is Thrushcross Grange and the naivety and ignorance that results from its “utopia-like” atmosphere . For Heathcliff and Catherine, who will destroy anyone for the other, the only peace that can be reached is in the middle of the two estates where they can live by their own rules. The irony of the story is that Catherine and Heathcliff’s obsessive love not only leads to their destruction, but to the destruction of the others who loved them....
