Canterbury tales
... ^I [Catherine] should only pity him--hate him, perhaps, if he were ugly, and a clown.^(71). However, society exiles her from Heathcliff, now a lowly servant and pushes her into a union with Edgar. Catherine cannot keep this to herself and vents her remorse on Ellen, I^ve no.. business to marry Edgar Linton... and if the wicked man [Hindley] 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 I love him: and that, not because he^s handsome, Nelly, but because he^s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton^s is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire."(73) Catherine knows she will be unhappy and ill-suited in her marriage to Edgar, but society leaves her no other option, especially after Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights at the onset of Catherine^s engagement to Edgar Linton. Heathcliff grows up as the foster child in the Earnshaw home and is regarded as an outcast by family members. His arrival at Wuthering Heights is marked by contempt and insults from every person in the family, except old Mr. Earnshaw. Even Nelly considered herself superior to Heathcliff and referred to him as an it. Her actions further exile Heathcliff from the Earnshaws^ company by treating him as inferior and sub-human. Both children, ^entirely refused to have it in their bed with them or even in their room; and I [Nelly] had no more sense, so I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone by the morrow.^(33). Eventually, Miss Catherine warmed up to the orphan and they soon became best of friends. Mr. Earnshaw, ^took to Heathcliff strangely,^(33) and esteemed the ^poor, fatherless child^(33) as the favorite of the three...