Title : Love, Obsession, and Attachment: A Psychological Examination of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love Download

Author : Hanuman Prasad Gurjar

Date of Publication (ONLINE) :-05-07-2025
DOI :-10.71037/gyanvividha.v2i3.06

Online Publication Certificate No. :– GV/286

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Gurjar Hanuman Prasad, ”Love, Obsession, and Attachment: A Psychological Examination of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love”, Published in GYANVIVIDHA, ISSN: 3048-4537(O) & 3049-2327 (P), Volume-2 | Issue- 3, July-Sept. 2025, Page No. :-43-57. URL: https://journal.gyanvividha.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hanuman-Prasad-Gurjar-Gyanvividha-vol2-issue-3ISSN-3048-4537O-3049-2890O-Apr.-June-2025-pp-43-57.pdf

Abstract : From the storm-tossed moors of 19th-century England to the carefully calibrated prose of late-20th-century London, writers have long probed the darker dimensions of love: its capacity to soothe and its power to consume. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) remains a cornerstone of Victorian fiction, not only for its wild setting and intense passion but for its portrayal of love as an almost elemental force, intertwined with vengeance and identity (Islam 2014). Nearly one and a half centuries later, Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love (1997) examines obsession through the lens of a sudden trauma and its lingering psychological aftermath, demonstrating that the fine line between devotion and pathology persists in our own era (Shiva 2024). By juxtaposing these two works—one canonical and Gothic, the other contemporary and psychological—this paper highlights how both novels dramatize attachment and obsession as fundamental human drives.

Keywords : storm-tossed moors, calibrated prose, cornerstone, elemental force, intertwined, vengeance.

Publication Details:

Journal : GYANVIVIDHA (ज्ञानविविधा)

ISSN : 3048-4537 (Online)

3049-2327 (Print)

Published In : Volume-2 | Issue-3, July-Sept., 2025

Page Number(s) : 43-57