The conflicts in Wuthering Heights are class and revenge. Catherine loves Heathcliff, ut wants to be in a higher class and the only way she can do that is to marry Edgar. Catherine tells first tells Mrs. Dean, "'To-day, Edgar Linton asked me to marry him, and I've given him an answer. Now, before I tell you whether it was consent or denial, you tell me which it ought to be.'" (pg:77 p:4). She really cares about Mrs. Dean's opinion. When Mrs. Dean says she can't possibly have the answer Catherine says, "'I've not more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how much I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am.'" (pg:80 p:5). Heathcliff plans revenge against Hindley after he humiliates him at a dinner party. Heathcliff says to Mrs. Dean, "'I'm trying to settle how Is hall pay Hindley back. I don't are how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!" (pg:60 p:2). The revenge Heathcliff seeks on his brother leads him to become cruel and full of hate.
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