Page 19 - GALIET ETERNITY´S LOVE´S Epitaph: Bronte IV

of her choice 3⁄4 from pursuing and rejoicing in the beauty of their intuitive impulses and natures: oneness.
What dwells in oneness and immortality cannot be touched by morality, time or space. Like Blake, Emily Brontë stands beyond the pendulum of time and space, life and death, destiny and fate and the nature of things. Brontë’s intention is to treat Heathcliff and Catherine’s love as a force that transcends social norms and conventional morality. Perhaps she intends to teach sanctimonious Victorian women to follow their natures to avoid Catherine’s excruciating journey through the mounds of ash. Whether Brontë’s purpose is transcendental or didactic is rather pedantic in contrast to her certainty that Heathcliff and Catherine exist in virtue of their relationship with the universe: they belong to the same cosmic energy. Both are characters of the deepest affinity, likeness, intuition and of the most intense human emotions. They are as implacable and as irresistible as the elemental forces unleashed by nature, unchanging and eternal, and as crackling red-yellow-orange and blue as fire itself.
Although Heathcliff and Catherine’s sea-deep affinity has that sort of quality that literally frightens the dead and dooms the living, it nonetheless stems from the shores and waves of beauty. Heathcliff and Catherine are children of the same divine fiery spirit, of the wild, of the storm, they are so interwoven that they form a union and the nature of the sole reason of their existence is their rose: love.
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