Literary review of Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is not only a love story, it is a window into the human soul, where the we see the loss, suffering, self-discovery and triumph of the characters in this novel. Robert McKibben's The Image of the Book and John Hagan's Control of Sympathy in Wuthering Heights strive to prove that neither Catherine nor Heathcliff are responsible for their evil actions. Catherine and Heathcliff's passionate nature, their intolerable frustration, and their overwhelming loss ruined them and thus stripped them of their humanity. McKibben and Hagan take different approaches to Wuthering Heights, but the two approaches work together to form a unified concept. McKibben discusses Wuthering Heights as a whole, while Hagan focuses solely on the role of sympathies in the novel. Both McKibben and Hagan touch on the subject of Catherine and Heathcliff's passionate nature. To this, McKibben recalls the scene in the book where Catherine is “prey to an illness of her own making” (p. 38). When she asks for her husband, Nelly Dean tells her that Edgar is "among her books," and she exclaims, "For all I feel, what does he have to do with the books when I die? McKibben shows that while Catherine is making a scene and crying, Edgar is in the library dealing with Catherine's death the only way he knows how, with a gentle approach. He lacks the passion with which Catherine and Heathcliff handle trials. During this scene, Catherine's mind returns to childhood and she realizes that "the Lintons are foreign to her and illustrate a completely alien mode of perception" (p38). Catherine discovers that she will never belong to Edgar's society. During her journey of self-discovery, she realized that she had attempted the impossible - to live in a world where she did not belong. This ultimately led to his death. Unlike her mother, when Cathy enters The Heights, "those images of unreal security found in her books and Thrushhold Grange are confiscated, thus leading her to scream, 'I feel like death!' » With Hareton's help, Cathy learns not to place herself. her love in an environment that she created herself, but in a real life where she will be truly happy, the characters will then reappear as reconciled, and stability and peace will return to The Heights. Hagan, commenting on Catherine's passionate nature, remembers the same thing. scene where Catherine is close to death.