I wrote a theme for Heathcliff

"'And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"'
(From Chapter XVI of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)
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Emily Brontë's 1847 novel 'Wuthering Heights' tells the story of two families - the Earnshaws and the Lintons - and their entangled lives on the wild, remote Yorkshire Moors. At the heart of the story are Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, an orphan taken in by the Earnshaw family in the house called Wuthering Heights. While relentlessly bullied by his new step-brother, Heathcliff forms a strong, seemingly-unbreakable bond with Catherine. One fateful day, the pair find themselves at Thrushcross Grange, the house of the Lintons, where they meet a young Edgar Linton. As they grow, Catherine and Heathcliff begin fall in love, but when Heathcliff overhears Catherine confess that she cannot marry him due to his status, he leaves the Moors.
He returns years later a wealthy gentlemen, only to learn of Catherine's marriage to Edgar Linton. Enraged, yet still in love with Catherine, Heathcliff beings his journey of vengeance. He marries Edgar's sister, gambles his way to ownership of Wuthering Heights, and constantly visits Thrushcross Grange to torment Catherine with what he considers her betrayal of him. Catherine, distraught and exhausted, dies in childbirth soon after. Heathcliff begs the universe that her ghost haunt him forever.
18 years later, an older, bitter Heathcliff continues to inflict his vengeance, but now upon the next generation - his nephew Hareton, Catherine and Edgar's daughter Catherine, and his own, ill son Linton. As he enacts his abusive scheme to try and bring both houses into his possession, he beings to lose his grip on reality, wandering the Moors for days on end, claiming to feel Catherine's ghost everywhere. His obsession grows to the point of beginning a sexton to exhume Catherine's coffin and leave an opening that would align with his own when his own death comes so that they might finally be joined in death.
Despite some hope that the next generation might right some wrongs, when Heathcliff dies in an apparent attempt to let the ghost of Catherine in through his window, Brontë leaves us a haunting final image - the three graves of Edgar, Catherine, and Heathcliff side-by-side on the Moors, as if their entanglement will continue on forever.
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