ndeed helpless to do anything differently than how they did it in the book. They can be seen as tragic lovers who had no chance to avoid their miserable fates. If we see them in that way, then they can hardly be seen as evil, because they had no choice and no choice to be good, to l love one another in a healthy way, or to leave one another out of love because they saw they could not love healthily. If we see them in this way, they are not any more evil than a drug addict who cannot help himself from trying to get the next fix of the drug that is killing him.On the other hand, if we see them as free individual human beings who have the power to make choices between good and evil, than they are themselves evil because they continued to hurt one another, sometimes cruelly, after they knew that their relationship was destructive. Even if we see them as hopeless as junkies in their addiction to one another, at some point they had to have realized they were destroying each other. If it were truly love which they felt, they would have done whatever they could to stop themselves and separate because of that love.As it is in the book, however, author Bronte has painted Heathcliff and Catherine as two people who never really had such a free choice. From the beginning, even in childhood, there were powerful and dark connections, which bound these two, together against the world. Certainly we can say that Heath cliff was by far the more evil of the two, but Catherine willingly stayed in the relationship, and/or allowed herself to be brought back into it by Heathcliff. Evil or not, she is as much responsible for the misery and destruction of their “love” as Heathcliff. ...
