Shared elements between The Jewel in the Crown and Wuthering HeightsThe Jewel in the Crown, by Paul Scott, and Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte', are romantic tragedies that share many common elements. Although written in two very different time periods, the shared elements reveal the continuity of romantic tragedies across time. Wuthering Heights, a 19th century realistic fiction, shares the same type of passionate, violent, and emotional characters as The Jewel in the Crown, a postcolonial modernist fiction. Both stories contain a love triangle that subsequently ends in death. In both stories, Catherine and Daphne are very similar in that they are the point around which the two men in their lives dance in circles. Catherine and Daphne are both willful, they do what they want, Catherine promotes her love for Heathcliff and Daphne is secretly seeing Hari Kumar. "At fifteen, she [Catherine] was queen of the countryside; she had no equal, and she proved a haughty and stubborn creature" (WH, p. 51). And about Daphne: "She had to create her own wonderful mis...