Unlike previous readings such as Plato’s Symposium or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Wuthering Heights tells us how harmful love can be. In the previous readings, we are told of how love is good and virtuous. For example, Phaedrus argues that love would empower those in love to bring out the best in themselves through his example of an army. An example from the Nicomachean Ethics would be how Aristotle mentions that those involved in the highest form of friendship would behave in a virtuous manner. However, none of these attributes seem to arise in Emily Bronte’s book. The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is probably the most significant example of the detrimental effect love has on people. When Catherine reveals that she was