On the subject of soulmates.
The last couple of days of class we've been talking about soulmates, specifically whether Catherine and Heathcliff were soulmates. I think that in a literary sense, yes, Catherine and Heathcliff should have ended up together somehow, either in death or in life. I hated Heathcliff's guts but I think that his whole deal with the coffins was pretty romantic. I think that the author meant for us to think that Catherine and Heathcliff were meant to be together
When we talked about soulmates mostly I thought of Twilight (which I enjoyed but did not become obsessed with, I am an Edward fan until Jacob takes his shirt off.) In some ways Jacob and Edward reminded me of Edgar and Heathcliff, Jacob is the sexy, moody guy like Heathcliff and Edward is the nice guy like Edgar. The only difference is that I think (no, I know) that Stephanie Meyer wrote the books in a way that Bella (crazy chick who totally reminded me of Catherine) ended up with the nice guy and that was who she was meant to end up with. I thought Jacob was a total jerk like Heathcliff. I guess it depends on how you interpret the novels and how you think of them, it may even be that the time period that the novel is set in can influence your belief.
I, personally, do not believe in real life soul mates. I think that you can fall in love with a person and be crazy happy with them and them crazy happy with you can be a perfect match but I also think that you could go to England and find some other dude that could fit that same profile. I am a religious person. I believe in God and that he gave us free will. That God knows what our life is going to turn out to be but that he's not controlling it. It's almost like he reading one of those lousy adventure books (if you choose to date total jerk #4 please proceed to page druggie....) and he's just sitting up there shaking his head at us. If God had a Twitter: #Maddiebrokeherankleskiing#SMH... I'm getting a little off track here. Basically I believe that a person can find that perfect person down path #1 but if they had chosen path #2 then some other perfect person could come along. Maybe they got it wrong and they split those greek mutants into a thousand different pieces, I don't know.
The Bloody Jack novels are also a great tie-in to soulmates... :P
