Comparing Childhood Love in Sense and Sensibility and Wuthering Heights

Childhood Love Love is an emotion that you are fortunate to experience sometime in your life. Love can make you very delighted but it can also make you do crazy things. It is almost like it takes control of your emotions and makes you irrational. This does not just go for adults, but children too. A child is just as capable of being in love. The novels Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility proves the powerful influence love can have on the different personalities of the children. Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Bronte. Bronte writes about two usually stable families and an intruder that stirs up their lives. "In the "beginning", happiness reigned at Wuthering Heights . Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and their parents were, seemingly, a felicitous unit." (Knapp, 113) One day Mr. Earnshaw brings home a tan young boy he found wandering the streets. Mr. Earnshaw names him Heathcliff and begins to raise him like his own son. This causes tension in the family. Mr. Earnshaw begins to favor the stranger over his own son. This causes Hindley to become jealous of Heathcliff. As Hindley 's hate for Heathcliff grew stronger, Catherine 's love for him grew even stronger. This causes life at Wuthering Heights to be unbearable. The family turns against Hindley and sends him away to school and Heathcliff takes the place as the son of the house. After Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaws death Hindley returns to Wuthering Heights for revenge on Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff stayed in love throughout the difficult times until Catherine meets Edgar Linton. Eventually Catherine and Edgar end up together and leaves Heathcliff distraught and seeking revenge. Sense and Sensibility is a novel written by Jane Austen about the lives of two sisters. Elinor is the older sister and Marianne is the younger of the two. When Mr. Dashwood dies and leaves no money to the family, Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters: Elinor, Marianne and Margaret are invited

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