Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights highlights three main relationships, which reminds us that there are a variety of examples of romantic relationships between the characters, Cathy and Heathcliff, Cathy and Linton, Catherine and Hareton. For the most compelling relationship to be presented, this essay will seek to explain the many elements that must support it, including social status, true chemistry between the couple, and shared moral values. The importance of social status is one of the components between romantic relationships and this differs between each of the three relationships. Between Cathy and Heathcliff, everything changes when Cathy is seriously injured during one of her many excursions with Heathcliff. During this time, she transforms into a respectable lady, and thus claims a higher social status than Heathcliff. This causes a major conflict between Cathy and Heathcliff because they no longer have the same social status. What follows is the social divide between them which drives Heathcliff away. Social status is so important to her that she marries Edgar Linton to move up the social ladder because he had been raised in a well-behaved and wealthier household than Heathcliff. Catherine also hopes that Edgar will support his friend Heathcliff. A battle ensues between Edgar and Heathcliff when Edgar unsuccessfully attempts to separate Cathy and Heathcliff due to their different social statuses. Cathy dies giving birth to Catherine who grows up living a sheltered life with her father Edgar. After Edgar's death, Catherine turns seventeen and Heathcliff plunges her into financial ruin after controlling her money. This causes Catherine's social status to fall and become comparable to that of Hareton. Because after...... middle of paper ......ionship but similar superficial values ​​such as wealth and decorum. Cathy also broke them between Edgar by being manipulated by Heathcliff into letting him back into her heart. While Catherine and Hareton initially had different moral values, Hareton's budding fondness for Catherine develops and this shows his efforts to impress Catherine and change his own values ​​by teaching himself to read and acquire knowledge in order . romantic relationship, the following elements must be present. These include the importance of social status, true chemistry between the couple and shared moral values. Without it, the elements of a strong relationship are there, and then the foundations will eventually crumble, as noted above. Therefore, of the three relationships, that of Catherine and Hareton is the most convincingly presented..