Page 23 - GALIET ETERNITY´S LOVE´S Epitaph: Bronte IV

It is precisely this division 3⁄4 this anxious separation 3⁄4 that drives both lovers to the precipice of madness and destruction. Heathcliff is well aware that “for every thought she [Catherine] spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me! [him]...” (117) and that everything would be nothing “...then, Linton would be nothing, nor Hindley, nor all the dreams that ever I dreamt. Two words would comprehend my future 3⁄4 death and hell; existence, after losing her, would be hell” (117). Yet, Catherine does not care whether her death will make Heathcliff unhappy or not. She fears only that it may break the bond between them. If inconsolable anguish will keep him faithful to her, she is terribly glad of it.
“I wish I could hold you till we were both dead! I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do!” Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, “That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago...” (124)
In the chamber scene, we witness the inconsolable pain of Heathcliff in his struggle and also the awesomness of his loving depth for Catherine
“You said I killed you 3⁄4 haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe 3⁄4 I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always 3⁄4 take nay form 3⁄4 drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!” (130)
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