the lovers hates the world and is eaten up inside by a sense of his inferiority. In fact, when Heathcliff as a child complains to Nelly that he will never be as handsome and fair-skinned and light haired and rich as Edgar, Nelly shows him his reflection in a mirror and warns him to fight against the evil showing already in his face. She calls his eyes “black friends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil’s spies” (97).The evil is there in Heathcliff early, then. Can an evil, unhappy, angry, prideful person truly love? If one is already so full of hatred, is love possible? And if another person loves such a man, is it possible for her to avoid entering into that evil?In the scene in which Heathcliff and Edgar fight, we see that Catherine is steadily becoming more evil herself. We could argue that she is a good person at heart, but her relationship with Heathcliff is dragging her down into the darkness. She is seen as not able to resist the evil he carries with him. She becomes confused and frustrated and angry she, trying to figure out what is going on and how to deal with Heathcliff’s rage.In truth, she could keep her sanity and goodness only if she left Heathcliff and never had anything to do with him again. But she is tied to him by a power reaching back to their childhood. It is a connection, which is not rational, so her reason is completely useless in trying to figure out Heathcliff or her love for him.It is clear to the reader; however, that she is becoming more and more like Heathcliff the more she stands by him or has anything to do with him:I want to frighten (Edgar)… I’m certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end! …. Heathcliff’s talk was outrageous….The fool’s-craving to hear evil of self that haunts dashes all wrong some people like a demon…. I did not care, hardly, what they did to...
