Wuthering Heights can be viewed as a conflict between the savage and the civilized. Do you agree?

Yes, I do agree, but the terms "savage" and "civilized"
should not be considered as reflective of the characters' relation to other human beings
or of their position and conduct within human society. Rather, the terms "savage" and
"civilized" stand for two antithetic (not necessarily conflicting) temperaments, two
antithetic attitudes towards life, love, nature, the
universe.

The plot of the novel unfolds in three locales:
Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange and the moorland that on the one hand connects the
two houses and on the other, separates them from the rest of the
world.

The   inhabitants of Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff,
Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw are of a savage temperament: passionate in their love and
hatred, freedom loving, unable to compromise or to control their feelings. Their
physical appearance is reflective of their 'savagery': they are black-eyed and black
haired, Heathcliff is even described as having a dark complexion. The men are robust,
but they have no advantage from this for their health and bodily strength only lengthens
the spiritual agony they feel in face of their doomed passions or/and thwarted hopes.

The inhabitants of Thrushcross Grange, on the other hand,
"civilized" Edgar and Isabella Linton, take a very different stance on life. While
intense in their feelings, their behavior is not entirely controlled by passion.
Deceptions in their expectations do not result, like in the case of their neighbors, in
destructive or self-destructive behavior. Rather, they resign themselves to their
fate(s), trying to build themselves a new life and a new kind of happiness (They are
happy raising their children.) out of the ruins of the old one. They never lose control
entirely and always maintain their dignity. Their physical appearance is the opposite of
that of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights; they are described as white-complexioned,
blue-eyed and fair-haired. Their health is fragile.

The
classification of the characters into "savage" and "civilized" ones can be applied
successfully only to the first generation of Lintons, Earnshaws and Heathcliffs. Their
children: Catherine Linton, Hareton Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff are of mixed
temperaments.

It should also be remembered that Emily
Bronte's narrative does not favor one temperament or attitude over the
other.