A Rejoining of Two Souls

In Bronte's emotionally revealing novel, which delves into the human condition and therefore also the meaning of death, death plays a large part throughout Wuthering Heights as a whole. Death is represented as a passing of inheritance largely throughout the novel. For example, Heathcliff's hunger and scheming for the land and wealth of Edgar after his passing. Death is also repeated as a motif represented by the weather being gray, dull and seemingly lifeless. Wuthering Heights takes on this death-like image in opposition to the Edenic and bright image that Thrushcross Grange is represented as. Although these ideals of death are intriguing, I find that the most meaningful and interesting ideals on death are seen through the demise of Heathcliff himself. After witnessing the death of his supposed soulmate and many others around him, Heathcliff would seemingly see death as a natural and obvious end to life. Having been raised with no real religious ideals, Heathcliff should see death as an ultimate demise. A finality with only blankness and nothingness left for the senses. Interestingly enough, Heathcliff views death as a final consummation with Catherine, as a rejoining of two souls, of something more than just death. Maybe his blind and passionate love leads him to a mentally unstable state and to naively hope for this, and therefore lead him to believe these ideals. But for me, I partially agree with Heathcliff. I wholeheartedly believe that everything that exists cannot be created nor destroyed. Therefore, there is no true death, but only a recycling of matter. So in that respect there must be some sort of "recycling" of souls, or at least I believe so. Perhaps Heathcliff and his true love did rejoin as souls. Or perhaps nothingness ensued. But either way humanity will never know, and there is something quite poetic in that.