Theme Of Revenge In Wuthering Heights

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

Through self-centered and narcissistic characters, Emily Bronte’s classic novel, “Wuthering Heights” illustrates a deliberate and poetic understanding of what greed is. Encouraged by love, fear, and revenge, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Linton Heathcliff all commit a sin called selfishness.

Cruelty compels one to inflict cruelty upon others. In her novel, Wuthering Heights, Brontë illustrates the rough life of Heathcliff, conflicted with whether he should focus his life on loving Catherine Earnshaw or inflicting revenge on those who tortured him as a child. Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff into the Earnshaw family as an orphan gypsy, a social class that most of the Earnshaw did not care for. The eldest child of Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley, abuses Heathcliff horribly, shaping the way Heathcliff perceives the world around him. Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley’s younger sister, motivates Heathcliff to endure this pain through their affectionate relationship. With his heart focused on revenge, Heathcliff devises a cruel plan to retaliate those who hurt him; he returns to Wuthering Heights as a refined, powerful man. He takes some of his anger out on Hareton Earnshaw, Hindley’s son; this parallels Hindley’s abuse towards Heathcliff. Through Hindley’s and Heathcliff’s abusiveness in Wuthering Heights, Brontë asserts that cruelty cycles from its perpetrators to its victims.

When Mr. Earnshaw died Hindley took over and made Heathcliff a servant. Heathcliff did not like this at all and anger grew inside of him and wanted revenge. As life went on Hindley continued with the torture on Heathcliff but it became more extreme and so did Heathcliff’s taste for

Hindley first became an abusive character when his father, Mr. Earnshaw, brought a homeless boy home from his trip to Liverpool and named him Heathcliff (Chapter 4, pp. 33-39). One of the reasons why Hindley grew hostile towards Heathcliff

In Emily Bronte’s gothic, romantic-era-novel, Wuthering Heights, the characters demonstrate that hatred breeds hatred. Heathcliff, the protagonist, develops an immense revulsion and desires retaliation on all who mistreat him. Heathcliff’s passionate hatred spreads to other characters but, it does not carry on and fails to effect the next generation of characters in the novel. Hindley, the primary antagonist of the novel, begins a cycle of hatred by mistreating his adopted brother, Heathcliff. Hindley displays signs of moderate aggression and hatred toward Heathcliff by calling him hateful names and severely mistreating him.

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

Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, introduces many different characters throughout the story. The two main characters that show the most change by the end of the book are Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Brontë introduces Heathcliff as a broken and twisted character because he was an orphan. Heathcliff is not well educated at the beginning of the novel, but by the end goes through a revengeful transformation. Heathcliff can be seen as such a tragic character because Mr. Earnshaw says that Heathcliff is dark “almost as if [he] came from the devil” (Brontë 45).

Heathcliff is introduced in Nelly's narration as a seven-year-old Liverpool foundling (probably an Irish famine immigrant) brought back to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His presence in Wuthering Heights overthrows the prevailing habits of the Earnshaw family, members of the family soon become involved in turmoil and fighting and family relationships become spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason Mr. Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. "From the very beginning he bred bad feelings in the house". Heathcliff usurps the affections of Mr. Earnshaw to the exclusion of young Hindley-: "The young master had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a

In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s cruel childhood experiences with Hindley’s dehumanizing treatment and Catherine’s betrayal affect him negatively, causing him to develop a desire for vengeance as a sense of closure. This association with revenge as closure for his childhood illuminates the theme that people do not always move forward from the cruel events in their life, and though they strive to move on, the result does not always give them happiness.     Heathcliff’s relations with Hindley and his cruel treatment reveal that people are not always willing to let things go without giving themselves justice. When Heathcliff was brought to the Earnshaw home, it was evident that he was not well received by any of the inhabitants

The Path Less Traveled Revenge is often the most instinctive route to take when one wronged. However, revenge never accomplishes anything besides worsening the situation for everyone involved. Instead it just causes more strife and loathing. Moreover, one cannot reverse the past through any means; nonetheless, one may be able to achieve peace by relinquishing revenge and choosing acceptance. As the protagonist of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff eventually abandons revenge, which results in his positive change at the novel’s end that reveals Brontë’s message to the reader: revenge cannot create happiness.

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte, Heathcliff suffers many ails at the hands of his stepbrother Hindley, and his neighbor Edgar Linton. He partakes on an elaborate plot to take revenge on both of them for their wrongdoings, and rise up in society. What Heathcliff finds from this plan, spread over several decades, is not what he expected or hoped for. Emily Brönte proposes the idea that while you may acquire material prizes through revenge, you will never achieve what you set

Novels often use the emotion of hate to create tension and distress in the plot. Wuthering Heights uses Heathcliff’s disdain for the other characters to add conflict to the story. Wuthering Heights examines the source of Heathcliff’s hate as well as its effects on the other characters throughout the story. Heathcliff’s relationships with other characters also suggests the universal theme that breeds hatred.

The relationship between Heathcliff and Hindley revealed and developed the abusive nature of Heathcliff. Heathcliff was taken in as a young boy into a wealthy family that had two children. Ever since the day he was brought home the eldest son, Hindley, resented how the father favored him more. For example, Heathcliff threatened to tell their father if Hindley did not let him have his horse. This one childish threat had created the foundation of the resentment between the two men. Heathcliff threatened to tell their father that Hindley was making him feel unwelcome and abused emotionally, Hindley decided to not see if Heathcliff was going to follow through with the threat therefore gave him the horse. Later on through life, once the father dies, Hindley decides to take his absence as an excuse to start really physically abusing Heathcliff. He would beat him and punch him without thought of how this would transfer into the rest of his life. Heathcliff was also verbally assaulted by Hindley which is a twist on the traditional sense of cruelty. Hindley is demeaning towards Heathcliff and calls him a slave and make sure that he know that he is not equal with himself or his sister Catherine. This point planted the seed of doubt and not being good enough for the rest of his life. This continual mental assault forged the mindset of little Heathcliff to how he would exact revenge on Hindley for all of his wrongdoings. This cruelty from Hindley was due to the favoritism that Heathcliff received as a child, the death of his father, the death of his wife, and the constant reminder of his wife through his son. The constant cruelty is the motive for Heathcliff's actions once he returns to the Heights. Through baiting Hindley, in his own personal torment from his wife's passing, all the money and possessions are gambled away with Heathcliff as the new owner. Wuthering Heights itself

Love is a strong attachment between two lovers and revenge is a strong conflict between two rivals. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses setting to establish contrast, to intensify conflict, and to develop character. The people and events of Wuthering Heights share a dramatic conflict. Thus, Bronte focuses on the evil eye of Heathcliff's obsessive and perpetual love with Catherine, and his enduring revenge to those who forced him and Catherine apart. The author expresses the conflict of Wuthering Heights with great intensity. Hence, she portrays a combination of crucial issues of romance and money, hate and power, and lastly