The class notes that it would, in fact, degrade Cathy to marry Heathcliff. Yet would she truly feel worse or would this woman just be overwhelmed under all the expected social norms surrounding her.

It is possible that Heathcliff and Cathy's are a bit too much alike. Would you really want someone who is identical to your every feelings and thoughts. Two individuals should probably be compatible- possibly have the same faith, interests, and ideas- yet even identical twins are not exactly alike

"Heathcliff is like myself, always within me"

Would that not be suffocating?

And within this story the idea is set that quite certainly no one is truly angelic. Heathcliff, though we feel for him, is in no way an angel of nature. This flaw within the established protagonist separates good art from bad art. That the characters feel real to us; that they have as many faults as we have, allow us, as the reader, to identify with them.

Thrushcross Grange comes to represent a much more presentable aspect of society (pretentious), while Wuthering Heights, on the other hand, paints a picture of Aristocratic vice. The moors, themselves, show nature in all its simplistic beauty, "out into the wild things"; something that could never be tamed by English society.