Comparison Of Vladimir Nabokov s Lolita And Emily Bronte...

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights both share the powerful theme of intense and obsessive love. Heathcliff, the disturbed main character in Wuthering Heights is so immensely in love with Catherine that it turns him into a monster. The main character in Lolita is inappropriately in love with a young girl that causes him to commit destructive actions. In both of these novels the authors demonstrate how something as joyful as love, can morph into an obsession, lead to insanity, and destroy a character. Throughtout Wuthering Heights, Healthcliff is destroyed by his love for Catherine Earnshaw. Heathliff never marries Catherine because they become stuck in a poisned love triangle which destroys their relationship. Catherine was married to Edgar Linton despite that her and Heathcliff were in love which immensely destroyed Heathcliff. Heathcliff asserts that â€Å"Two words would comprehend my future –death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton s attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.† This quote describes that Life without Catherine is not worth living for Heathcliff. The only emotion that begins to compensate for Heathcliff s loss is bitterness. Despite her unfortunate choice for a husband, Heathcliff knows that Edgar is incapable of loving her the way he does.When