The love that Heathcliff and Catherine share for each other is wild and passionate, and is a major theme in the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. Both Heathcliff and Catherine are monomaniacs, who ultimately are destroyed by their obsessions. Throughout the novel, their relationship is effectively and vividly depicted. We, the readers, see their relationship beginning and flourishing until their demise. The relationship between the two is unique, mysterious and unlike any other, as it goes beyond the bounds of what is normal and surpasses death.

The beginning of this relationship is detailed in chapters three and four. Here, in chapter three, we see Mr. Lockwood stay overnight in Wuthering Heights. He reads Catherine's diary and discovers the perils of living under Hindley's rule. Later that night, Mr. Lockwood dreams of Catherine, who has been "a waif for twenty years" and begs to be let back in...