Destructive Love In Wuthering Heights, And My Last Duchess

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In Macbeth, Wuthering Heights, and My Last Duchess, the writers present themes of destructive love between the lovers through the desires of female characters. Therefore in this research paper there will be evidence explaining how destructive love is shown through emotional abuse, mind games, and physical abuse from the female characters towards the males. In the imaginative writings what do the women do to emotionally defile their men?
“Nor time, nor place, did then adhere, and yet you would make both: they have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you.”(Macbeth 1.7.51-54) In that statement made by Lady Macbeth, it shows one of the ways she is emotionally damaging her husband. Another example is “I have given suck, and you know how tender ‘tis …show more content…

She calls the shots in their relationship for example when Heathcliff comes back Edgar wants to refuse the presence of Heathcliff because he does not like Heathcliff, but Catherine says “I know you didn’t like him, yet for my sake, you must be friends now”(Bronte 97). Then a little later Edgar and Heathcliff get into it and Edgar says something about Catherine causing her to get fired up and she yells out “Edgar, I was defending you and yours; and I wish Heathcliff may flog you sick for daring to think an evil thought of me!”(Bronte 119). She always has her ways of making Edgar give into her wants. How do the women jumble the mens heed? In Wuthering Heights Catherine messes with both Edgar and Heathcliff’s minds by telling both of them, they have broken her heart. “You and Edgar have broken my heart!”(Bronte 164). The Dukes wife in My Last Duchess plays mind games with him. As he stated himself after she died, “too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she liked whate’er”(Browning 22-24). He also states “she thanked men -- good”(Browning 31). She played mind games with him making him feel like what he gave her was never good

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