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Theme Author Emily Brontë, in the novel Wuthering Heights, suggests, in my opinion, the theme, that humans of a higher social class wish to be accepted by society so much so that they ruin their own lives and try always to make others happy, unknowingly at first, but later, knowingly. First of all, Catherine Earnshaw realizes her undying love for Heathcliff, but, because he is uneducated and "gypsy-like", she marries the well off Edgar Linton. …

…Linton, wife of Heathcliff, and mother of Linton. She falls in love with Heathcliff and because of her own wanting, she marries Heathcliff, entering into a Hell. She ends up running away and dies after 12 years. Lockwood is the narrator of the story in Chapters 1-4 and 31-32, and the last few paragraphs. He considers himself an outcast from society. It is on his wanting to know about Wuthering Heights that the whole story evolves.