Heathicliff

A detailed Summary of Heathicliff

When Wuthering Heights was published it was blasted it's contemporaries as obscene. They railed that Catherine and Heathcliff were the most immoral and in general worst people they had ever had the misfortune of reading about. Although Wuthering Heights has taken it's rightful place as masterwork of 19th century literature and Emily BrontÁ has receive credit for her work, it is still possible to see where the early attacks are based. Heathcliff especially behaves in a very obtuse manner. The basis for this behavior is Heathcliff's bizarre love/hate relationship with Catherine. His frustrated desire to be with her causes him deep personal pain, which he transfers to other characters in a sadistic attempt to force them to feel that pain as well.

Heathcliff and Catherine's relationship is neither stable nor in any way normal. Instead it is full of violent emotions which are either soaring high or dashingly low, with very little between the two. Catherine declares that she and Heathcliff "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same"(73). Heathcliff desires nothing more than to be with Catherine, but their relationship is undermined by the

like to live with your soul in the grave?'(147-48)

are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?

The forced marriage between first cousins Catherine II and Linton, with all is a accompanying duplicity, is a the final act of revenge. The subsequent deaths of Edgar Linton and Linton Heathcliff leave Wuthering Heights and the Grange in Heathcliff's possession. The vengeance is complete: Heathcliff has everything dear to Edgar, his property and his daughter; the younger Catherine, because he could not control her mother and he may feels that shre should have been his and Catherine's daughter; and Hinley's son is turning out to be another Heathcliff. Complete victory for Heathcliff, but then a strange thing happens: Heathcliff starts to mellow. He seems to realize that however complete his vengeance it gets him no closer to Catherine, her shade still wonders the moors. Heathcliff professes to Nelly, "she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years" (264). It is when Heathcliff prepares to spent eternity with Catherine that he final finds peace, with her and himself. Catherine's coffin, buried for eighteen years, is dug up and a panel removed so Heathcliff's remains can mingle with her's.

may years do you mean to live on after I am gone?

and in breaking it have broken mine. . . .

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Approximate Word count = 990
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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