Wuthering Heights "My greatest thought in loving is Heathcliff. If all perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being" (74). In Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights, this statement of Caterine's undying love for Heathcliff best resembles the central theme of the story; a love that is stronger than death. In Wuthering Heights, a story about love turned obsession, Bronte manipulates the desolate setting and dynamic characters to establish contrast and to intensify conflict between the lives