How Does Bronte Present Cathy's Death

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Despite the presentation of love overcoming death through the pantheistic unification of Heathcliff and Cathy with nature, Heathcliff still suffers because of Cathy’s much earlier death in ‘Wuthering Heights’. Heathcliff’s suffering immediately following Cathy’s death is depicted by Bronte as being hugely powerful. Bronte uses broken sentence structure in Heathcliff’s speech, with lines such as ‘be with me always – take any form – drive me mad!’, to show the influence that the suffering has had on Heathcliff’s mind; it suggests he is unable to complete any thought that doesn’t immediately focus on the suffering he is currently going through. Two of the only four complete sentences in this entire speech are the final lines ‘I cannot live
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