In the novel Wuthering Heights, written by the author, Emily Bronte, the character that suffers and responds in a tragic way to injustice is Heathcliff. Heathcliff is brought to a house where they had money, and he was a homeless kid. The difference in social status led other kids in the house to mistreat him, and make fun of him. He was forced into isolation by Hindley due to his physical appearance. Consequently, Heathcliff suffers in different manners throughout the novel, the main one being solitude. Heathcliff responds to such injustice by making the life of those who mistreated him miserable.
Heathcliff's understandment of justice is different from many other characters in the novel. After suffering from all the injustice given by those who lived in the same house like him.. For the Heathcliff, killing or making suffer those who treated him poorly, was the only way he saw justice would be made. Revenge is what he seeks and what he believes is justice.Many others would believe what Heathcliff does is not fair justice, instead they believe it is injustice to other people, such as Edgar feels as he sees his sister being treated disturbingly by Heathcliff just to get revenge on Edgar. He does not see justice as doing something good, after immensely, …show more content…
He was extremely successful because, beyond the turning point of the story, all Edgar and Hindley, do is suffer of internal and external issues by what Heathcliff does in his return. In the eyes of Heathcliff making Edgar and Hindley suffer is satisfying justice for him, so that is the reason why Heathcliff is successful in his hunt for justice, for example, at the end of the novel,Hindley and Edgar die, therefore we can infer that the search for justice in behalf of Heathcliff was successful since that was his goal all along to see them