to be spiteful‚ vengeful‚ and at the extreme villainous. In Emily Bronte’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ Heathcliff is the villain because he is frustrated about his unrequited love for Cathy. Heathcliff’s villainy is apparent in how he treats the Earnshaws‚ degrading Hindley and Hareton just as Hindley did him. This is also shown in his actions against the Lintons. Heathcliff hates the Lintons because Cathy married Edgar. Heathcliff uses his treachery to steal away the Linton fortune and to degrade
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reader. Arguably‚ Heathcliff is not controlling‚ violent‚ and abusive by nature. Rather‚ experience makes him so. Unwelcome into the Earnshaw home as an orphan‚ throughout his childhood he is considered an outcast because of his darker skin tone and strange speech. Heathcliff “[breeds] bad feeling in the house” (37)‚ especially with regard to Hindley‚ the Earnshaws’ son‚ who often beats him and ridicules him. Thus Heathcliff’s repeated exposure to abuse‚ mockery‚ and violence in his early years instills
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brought into the home of Catherine and her older brother Hindley‚ wins the affection of their father and the resentment of Hindley. As a result of this built up resentment‚ when Hindley inherits the home he mistreats and degrades Heathcliff. The cruelty Heathcliff experiences from Hindley influence Heathcliff to become a well mannered man in society.
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Heathcliff loses a bit of his sanity after the passing of his lover‚ Catherine. The hauntings of her spirit and the dreams that Mr. Heathcliff experiences proves readers that love/loss can destroy a person. The scene that captures the essence of the theme is in chapter 29 when Brontë evokes sympathy for Heathcliff after he explains how he has been tormented for 18 years after the passing of Catherine’s death. Truly he loved Catherine because she was the only one who loved him and played with him when
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the novel‚ Healthcliff and Catherine Earnshaw had terrible communication. After Catherine had gone back to Wuthering Heights from Thrushcross Grange for the first time‚ she was disgusted by how uncivilized Heathcliff was after becoming accustomed to Edgar Linton’s proper manners. Heathcliff finally snapped and ran away after overhearing Catherine tell Nelly that she could not marry Healthcliff because he was too low classed for her. When Healthcliff ran away‚ Catherine realized that he did not know
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called "Catherine". When he falls asleep‚ his dreams are prompted by this person and he has a nightmare where he sees her as a ghost trying to get in through the window. He wakes and is unable to return to sleep so‚ as soon as the sun rises‚ he is escorted back to Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff. There he asks his housekeeper‚ Ellen Dean‚ to tell him the story of the family from the Heights. The Childhood of Heathcliff (chapters 4 to 17) The story begins thirty years before when the Earnshaw family
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related to Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights” because he was adopted informally by the Earnshaws. Heathcliff cleaned p and became very mannerly under watch of Mr.Earnshaw up until the time of his death when his son‚ Hindley‚ turned him into a slave more than a brother. Heathcliff changed when he was treated as a servant; he became more irritable and seemed to lose a sense of disrespect especially when he hit Catherine. Later in the novel Heathcliff goes to America and becomes a gentleman‚ this is another
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as a romantic hero. He despises her and uses her purely as a tool in his revenge. She is a contrast both physically and spiritually to Catherine. Heathcliff: Catherine’s love and the anti-hero of the story. The book essentially follows his story from first appearance at Wuthering Heights to his death there. He is badly treated by Hindley and his love for Catherine becomes all-enveloping. But she prefers to marry Edgar for his position and breedind‚ and he vows vegeance on Hindley‚ Edgar and their
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The concept that almost every reader of Wuthering Heights focuses on is the passion-love of Catherine and Heathcliff‚ often to the exclusion of every other theme–this despite the fact that other kinds of love are presented and that Catherine dies half way through the novel. The loves of the second generation‚ the love of Frances and Hindley‚ and the "susceptible heart" of Lockwood receive scant attention from such readers. But is love the central issue in this novel? Is its motive force perhaps economic
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and saw him as a misfit‚ Mr. Earnshaw who was the leader of the family treated him like he was the same as other people and made him feel like he had a place where he is. His death was what changed the great times of Heathcliff. At the point when Hindley took responsibility of the family this
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