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we witness Catherine’s and Heathcliff’s apocalyptic dénouement resulting from their festering, destructive passions. Heathcliff, in a compelling affirmation, declares to his lawyer, Mr. Green, with no remorse whatsoever
“... as to repenting of my injustices, I’ve done no injustice, and I repent of nothing 3⁄4 I’m too happy, and yet I’m not happy enough. My soul’s bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.” (254)
In Brontë’s sublime and omniscient mysticism, we hear Heathcliff’s ambivalence and a lack of satisfaction in ascertaining “I’m too happy, and yet I’m not happy enough.” Bronte is well aware that our desires, endless in their appetites, are never enough 3⁄4 nothing is ever enough 3⁄4 and, as a result, we are bound to dwell on this earth forever unsatisfied. In Buddhist philosophy, to desire is to suffer and it is therefore imperative that we focus all our energies towards the annihilation of our will (our ego) if we are to be happy. Although, Heathcliff has attained bliss and nirvana 3⁄4 that sense of light and wholeness and oneness 3⁄4 he is not to be moralized in Bronte’s eyes: injustice is inconceivable. We read that Heathcliff has committed no injustice, for injustice, in Brontë’s supernatural world, cannot possibly exist when her characters follow their given natures, corroborating with Nietzsche’s argument of the lamb and the birds of prey in his Genealogy of Morals.3 In a way, her characters are fully
3 Nietzche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Cambridge: USA. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1998
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