Hindley The Oppressor

After being putdown by Hindley for the majority of his childhood, Heathcliff is now the victim turned malefactor. Once he returns the roles of the characters in the book have changed. Heathcliff plays on Hindley’s gambling addiction and lends him money. Now Hindley is in debt to Heathcliff and through exchange, Heathcliff wins Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff used to be savage and a slave and now, Heathcliff owns Hindley and this makes Hindley seem more savage. Heathcliff gains control of Wuthering Heights through gambling with Hindley, the previous owner of Wuthering Heights. The Gypsies of the time period where thought to be skilled in gambling and fortune-telling. His envy of Edgar’s handsomeness partly fuels his anger toward Edgar and Catherine’s choice to marry him. Heathcliff wants revenge on Edgar for stealing away Catherine. So he takes advantage of Isabella, Edgar’s sister, and marries her. “[Heathcliff] seized, and thrust [Isabella] from the room; and returned muttering – "I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain." (151). Immediately, it is a loveless marriage between Heathcliff and Isabella. He is so malicious to take revenge, which he engages in acts of violence, for example hanging Isabella’s dog.

One of the strongest yet most broken types of people in this world are orphans, the ones who grew up without parents to teach the ways of the world to them. Very few are so lucky to find families of their own, and when they do, they are incredibly improved or perilously worse. In the case of Wuthering Heights, the unfortunate orphan is the character, Heathcliff. Growing up, he was treated with respect and care from his father, Mr. Earnshaw, like he was his own son, and later was treated like a close friend by his adoptive sister and love interest, Catherine. However, his adoptive brother, Hindley, was nothing but discourteous, derogatory, and ghastly towards him. Upon being bequeathed the mansion and the treasures from his father, Hindley immediately began to treat Heathcliff as nothing more than a gypsy and a stable boy; no respect, no care, and no love. Heathcliff’s character style is very static. Regardless of being raised by a father who cared for him, he was always

Heathcliff is a victim of class hatred but he also manipulates situations to his advantage and becomes an arch - exploiter. For example, after the death of his wife, Hindley went insane. Heathcliff used this opportunity to take revenge and took Wuthering Heights away from Hindley. He then went further and married Edgar’s sister, not for love or monetary gain but to get back at Edgar for marrying Catherine, and treated Edgar’s sister terribly.

As a young orphan who is brought to Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is thrown into abuse as Hindley begins to treat Heathcliff as a servant in reaction to Mr. Earnshaw’s death. As a reaction to both this and Catherine discarding Heathcliff for Edgar, Heathcliff’s sense of misery and embarrassment causes him to change and spend the rest of his time seeking for justice. Throughout this time, Heathcliff leans on violence to express the revenge that he so seeks by threatening people and displaying villainous traits. However, Heathcliff’s first symptom of change in personality is when Heathcliff runs into Hareton after Cathy “tormented

The ugliness of human nature is undoubtedly shown through toxic relationships in Wuthering Heights. They toxicity can be shown through almost every character relationship. The bain of toxic relationships can be shown right in the beginning of the novel with Hindley and Heathcliff. They immediately get off on the wrong foot all because one of them chooses to let their ugliness take over. Hindley is extremely jealous of Heathcliff, “...and is subject to Hindley's jealousy almost right away” (Galt). His jealousy sparks from the fact that his father seems to favour Heathcliff over him. This does Heathcliff no favours as it causes Hindley to be cruel and brutal towards him. Infact, on several occasions Hindley can be found almost abusing Heathcliff, "Take my colt, Gipsy, then!" said young Earnshaw. "And I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and he damned, you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has.” (Bronte 4) and “‘ Off dog!’ cried Hindley, threatening him with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay.” (Bronte 45). The abuse and hatred that Heathcliff receives from such a young age cause him to give the same treatment in the other relationships in his life. In Heathcliff’s relationship with Isabella he can be seen showing the same abuse towards her, Heathcliff seized, and thrust Isabella from the room; and returned muttering—"I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and grind

Anger resulted from class struggle is a basic foundation for Emily Bronte's Victorian novel Wuthering Heights. This anger is portrayed through such relationships among characters such as Heathcliff, Hindley, and Catherine. The novel was published during the Industrial Revolution when labors had to fight for fair conditions in the workplace and the power was in having money. Firstly, the relationship between Heathcliff and Hindley is based on anger as Hindley used the power of his social class as a mean to get his revenge back. Hindley makes use of his aristocratic class by insulting Heathcliff as Nelly narrates that Hindley uses words such as "Vagabond" (Bronte 47), "worse than a brute" (54), "a dog" (31), and "imp of Satan" (31).

Although Catherine enjoyed Heathcliff’s presence after her initial aversion to him, Hindley despised his father’s favoritism towards the boy. When Hindley goes to college, Mr. Earnshaw dies, leaving him with the estate and jurisdiction over Heathcliff. Hindley uses this power to make Heathcliff’s life terrible. Hindley’s dislike for the disorder of social class is apparent when he makes Heathcliff his servant, putting him back down to what he thinks is his rightful place in the social hierarchy. His behavior is summarized in Catherine’s journal in chapter three: Hindley calls him [Heathcliff] a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the

In the first three chapters of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood is forced to grapple with the mystery of Heathcliff’s cruelty, watching him do things from “[striking] his forehead with rage” and “savage vehemence” to threatening to physically assault his daughter-in-law (27). The narrative which the original text of Wuthering Heights provides, however, is not concerned with the emotional progression of the individual, assuming that Heathcliff’s savagery is simply characteristic of his very existence. It is through Catherine Earnshaw’s perspective, manifested through her diaries, that Heathcliff’s cruelty can be assessed, not only as a product of his social environment, but as something deeply entrenched in his racial differences. Catherine’s sympathy

After perusing Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, it becomes blatantly obvious that every character in the book is motivated to behave in a specific way. Although Heathcliff’s motivation is easily identified as revenge, and Cathy Heathcliff is motivated by fear to reside at Wuthering Heights, it would seem that two characters, Edgar Linton and Hindley Earnshaw, encounter similar circumstances, yet respond to them in completely different ways. By comparing and contrasting these two perplexing characters, perhaps the reason behind them acting so distinctly from one another can be revealed.

As soon as Hindley’s father dies, Heathcliff is taught the true meaning of hate by Hindley. As Heathcliff ages, his hate for Hindley grows inside of him, along with a need for revenge. Heathcliff’s need for revenge allows him to formulate his diabolical plan for taking over both the Grange and the Heights, upon return from his three year sojourn. Heathcliff’s ability to gamble the Heights away from Hindley foreshadows the unyielding power of Heithcliff’s hate when fueled by revenge. Thus establishing hate as the source of Heathcliff’s revenge.

The social classes in Wuthering Heights are an insight to the society that  Emily Bronte experienced. The British society of 1770 wasn’t accepting of a person with darker features which is reflected in how Heathcliff is treated in the novel. Orphans were also never meant to rise from their station below the servants. This is an insight into why Hindley Earnshaw hated Heathcliff and referred to him as a usurper of his father’s affections. When Hidley became master of Wuthering Heights he returned Heathcliff to his “rightful” place.

The presentation of childhood is a theme that runs through two generations with the novel beginning to reveal the childhood of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw, and with the arrival of the young Liverpudlian orphan, Heathcliff. In chapter four, Brontë presents Heathcliff’s bulling and abuse at the hands of Hindley as he grows increasingly jealous of Heathcliff for Mr. Earnshaw, his father, has favoured Heathcliff over his own son, “my arm, which is black to the shoulder” the pejorative modifier ‘black’ portrays dark and gothic associations but also shows the extent of the abuse that Heathcliff as a child suffered from his adopted brother. It is this abuse in childhood that shapes Heathcliff’s attitudes towards Hindley and his sadistic

Hindley and Mr. Linton fear Heathcliff’s malevolence and violence, trying to avoid him as much as possible because of it. Mr. Linton forbids his daughter, Cathy, from visiting Wuthering Heights because he does not want Heathcliff to hurt or harm her. Hindley attempted to murder Heathcliff because of his malevolence (167). Heathcliff’s malevolence may be a symptom of his grief after Catherine died. Catherine was his only and true love, and her death may have caused him to become slightly crazy.

Since the beginning of the novel, Hindley’s thirst for revenge on Heathcliff was sparked on by his father’s favoritism. From the moment, Heathcliff walked in Wuthering Heights, Hindley saw him as an inferior, and grew an immense amount of hate for him. Hindley’s disrespect toward Heathcliff soon led his father to favor his adopted son, which only worsened Hindley’s hate. In fact, Hindley’s envy led him to accuse his father of “treating” Heathcliff “too liberally” and he swore that “he will reduce” Heathcliff “to his right place” (Brontë19). Clearly, Mr.Earnshaw’s favoritism made Hindley bitter, and Hindley began the cycle of revenge in the novel as he swore to lessen Heathcliff’s position in the household. However, eventually Hindley’s misbehavior got him sent away to college, but he comes back when his dad dies to take the opportunity to finally take on his revenge. Hindley first “deprived” Heathcliff from the “instruction of the curate”, and he “insisted that he should labor outdoors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm” (Brontë 40). By depriving Heathcliff from an education, and lessening him from the privileges Mr. Earnshaw had provided him with, Hindley fulfills his revenge. Hindley took Heathcliff’s status in Wuthering Heights and subjected him to the social class of a servant to satisfy his aching heart broken by his childhood memories of his father’s favoritism. Furthermore, Hindley’s revenge reveals that

Books frequently utilize the sentiment adore, loathe, blame and so forth to make strain and stress and dejection in the plot. Wuthering Heights utilizes Heathcliff's solid aversion for alternate characters to add struggle to the story. Wuthering Heights looks at the wellspring of Heathcliff's abhor and in addition its consequences for alternate characters all through the story. Heathcliff's associations with different characters likewise propose the all-inclusive subject that breeds scorn. Hindley plants the seeds of detest into Heathcliff by regarding him unfeelingly as a tyke in the first place. “He [Hindley] has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. [Heathcliff] too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place. (3.30)”. The principal passage of the novel gives a beautiful physical picture of Heathcliff, as Lockwood depicts how his "bruised eyes" pull back suspiciously under his foreheads at Lockwood's approach.