{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30544531","dateCreated":"1290222711","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"danielx_184","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/danielx_184","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30544531"},"dateDigested":1531973865,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff is the making of his own decisions","description":"Thank You!
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\nHeathcliff develops himself as a cruel man who has the only intentions of taking revenge against all of those who have at some point committed any kind of grievance against him. To his eyes everybody is out to get him and he is merely innocent. Nothing of what he does is done in cruelty; nothing is bad, it all happens because someone did something to him at some point before so is the way he sees it. For this reason it is possible to assume that Heathcliff believes that he makes his own luck and does not depend on any \u201cgods\u201d to do anything for him. The god of Victorian Society, the society embedded on the story, is that of Christianity, and the god of Christians would not voluntarily create someone that would be such crude and cold heated as Heathcliff is. The bible says that we are all born fine people and it is our actions that turn us in the wrong direction. For this reason Heathcliff could, or should, not believe that it is the god(s) decision.
\nAt the beginning his actions can be partially justified due to his early development, or childhood. He sees that his actions are just means to get even with Hindley for we never see him become violent or disrespectful with Catherine at these early stages. There is an episode that shows Heathcliff, how he opens the doors to doing whatever he pleases around Wuthering Heights, as he triggers what will later become his mean of survival, cruelty. It occurs when he and Hindley are in the stables and he tells Hindley \u201cYou must exchange horses with me\u2026 I shall tell your father of the three thrashings you\u2019ve given me this week\u2026\u201d pg: 38 Heathcliff, at a very young age, proves himself to be able to manage people into doing whatever he pleases them to do. He wants to be just as cruel as Hindley is with him so he can make his adoptive brother pay for his deeds.
\nHeathcliff is also a masochist. He brings pain to himself and he wants to, he is inflicting pain on himself. His lifelong torment is his love for Catherine. When she finally dies, that he can end his torment and move on with his life he decides he does not want to do that. Asks Catherine\u2019s ghost to hunt him, to chase him, to make he\u2019s life miserable \u201chaunt me then!\u201d pg: 160. He wants Catherine\u2019s ghost to come for him, he wants Catherine to come and get him. He is aware that it is painful and that it will bring nothing good to him and yet he wishes it to be that way.
\nHeathcliff in fact suffers some kind of derangement. No sane man would commit all the barbarous acts he commits, kidnap, bloodthirsty revenge, accessory to murder, child manipulator, and heartbreaker. He is an abusive uncontrolled man, as his own wife says he is a beast. He is a psychopath, he is a paranoid man, in the end he is a demon and yet has power and will over his actions.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"30532797","dateCreated":"1290200250","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"tammy_sev","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tammy_sev","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1285868666\/tammy_sev-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30532797"},"dateDigested":1531973865,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":"Heathcliff is the main character in the story and it is important to understand him. He recognizes that the source of his failures and losses lie within him. Heathcliff tries to go away from Hindley\u2019s treatment and when he does he recognizes that it was all because of him. What he accomplished he did it on his own. Ever since he was born he had been on his own. HE first was an orphan and then after Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley takes control over him and he ha to work to stay in the place that was once his home. Even though. It looks that Heathcliff could be independent but once he meets Catherine he becomes dependent to her. When he looses her he blames himself. He understands that his plans for revenge are responsible to Catherine\u2019s death, even Catherine blamed him, we can see this when she says \u201cAnd you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied! I shall not pity you, not I. You have killed me- and
\nthriven on it, I think. (pg 153). Heathcliff then recognizes and feels bad, he is afraid that he will feel guilty forever, \u201cDo you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally alter you have left me? (pg. 154). Heathcliff never forgot Catherine, she was the love of his life, he blamed himself everyday for his death that he said, \u201cYou said I killed you- haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers\u201d (162). Then when Catherine left he didn\u2019t have a reason to live, he blamed himself to much that he killed himself later on, without her in his life he didn\u2019t have any reason to keep going. Another example when Heathcliff blames himself is when he grabs Hareton when Hindley was going to throw him of the stairs, he blames himself for loosing the only opportunity he had to cause revenge on Hindley, he regrets getting Hareton at that time. Heathcliff should feel good to save a kid but he sees the wrong side of it, not getting revenge, which is his main motivation. Heathcliff is also clear that all his accomplishments are thanx to him. He managed to get revenge on Hindley by buying Wuthering Heights, he also gets revenge on Hareton for the wrong doing of his father. Heathcliff recognizes this he knows that he made all this happen and even if he blames himself or feels good for what he did he has always made it on his own and he knows this.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"30531269","dateCreated":"1290198163","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"helojello","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/helojello","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30531269"},"dateDigested":1531973865,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":"In the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, one can see that Heathcliff has a great impact in the novel. He is one of the main characters, and has a huge impact on the story. Heathcliff started out as a gypsy boy who was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, and then he develops into a very strong willed character who influences the life of many people in the story
\n For one to understand Heathcliff\u2019s role in the novel, one must first try to understand why he does what he does. Heathcliff does everything to make things right. Sometimes it\u2019s to his benefit, and other times it is for the benefit of the people around him. For example, he wants to make things right with Hindley. He wants to take revenge and get even with him for the way Hindley treated him when they were kids. He is mean to Hindley, and even encourages his gambling, making him the owner of Wuthering Heights when Hindley passes away.
\nHe also wants to make things right with Catherine over and over again. When he overhears her say that \u201cIt would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now\u2026\u201d (page 78), he leaves for three years to make himself worthy of Catherine. He comes back looking as if he\u2019d been in the army, and he comes back with money. He does all this to be better with Catherine, he does this to make himself right for her. Also, when he comes back, he tries to get along with Edgar. He knows Edgar makes her happy, and as much as he hates their relationship and Edgar himself, he tries to get along with him. He does this for his undying love of Catherine, and because he knows that this way he\u2019ll be able to stay close to her and maybe make things right between them again.
\nHeathcliff believes that his suffering comes from the Gods. He believes that his life has been very hard since the beginning. First, he was a child living in the streets of Liverpool until Mr. Earnshaw adopted him. Later, he was abused by Hindley since Hindley was jealous of Heathcliff\u2019s relationship with his father. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley abuses him even more because he wants to feel superior to Heathcliff. His relationship with Catherine also makes him suffer. He does everything for her; he decides to change and become a better man just so he can fit in with her society and so he can finally be with her. He watches her get closer to Edgar, and later on he watches her be married to Edgar.
\nHe also brings the suffering upon himself. Even after Catherine dies, he asks her to \u201c\u2026 haunt me, then! \u2026 Be with me always \u2013 take any form \u2013 drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!\u201d (page 162). Catherine is dead, and yet he still wants her to remain with him, even if it is haunting him. He\u2019s bringing it upon himself to suffer enormously with her death.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532633","body":"Thanks Heloisa,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290200087","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30530843","dateCreated":"1290197634","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"ad.ri","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ad.ri","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1283992059\/ad.ri-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30530843"},"dateDigested":1531973865,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"HHHEEEAAATTTTTTHHHHHHCCCCCCLLLLLIIIIIIFFFFFFFF!!!!!","description":" Heathcliff holds himself responsible for his losses and his successes. For three years he goes away planning how to regain Catherine and take revenge on Hindley. Even before leaving Wuthering Heights, some unintended events happen for which he blames himself for. When Hindley comes home drunk, threatening to kill whoever was in his way. Unfortunately, little Hareton receives his father\u00b4s madness and is flung from the second floor. Miraculously Heathcliff appears at exactly the right moment and catches him, but as he looked up his anguish at having wasted the chance to take revenge can be seen on his face. He takes advantage of Hareton\u00b4s life later on a makes a the brute of a son he always wanted, but whom Hindley would have hated. \u201c[Hareton] is no fool; [Heathcliff] can sympathize with all his feelings, having felt them [himself]\u2026 [but Heathcliff has] got him faster than his scoundrel of a father\u2026 for he takes pride in his brutishness,\u201d (210).
\n Heathcliff is masochist, for he blames himself even for the hardest and greatest losses of his life. The day that Heathcliff and Catherine meet for the last time, Heathcliff accuses Catherine of doing what \u201cmisery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict\u201d (156) by separating herself from him. In defense, Catherine says it\u2019s his fault because he left her. When she dies Heathcliff, in a mad rage, admits that he killed her and begs her to haunt him.
\n Besides being masochistic, he holds grudges against anyone who made his life impossible. One of these was Edgar, who had taken Catherine away from him. He must\u2019ve thought about how to get Catherine back during his absence, and he becomes a learned and wealthy man so that Catherine won\u2019t be degraded by marrying him. However, when he comes back Catherine is already happily married with Edgar. Heathcliff\u2019s plans change and he\u2019s probably hopeless now that he has no way of getting her back. So, instead of persevering in trying to regain her, he focuses on making Edgar suffer. When Catherine tells him that Isabella is fond of him, a new plan forms in his mind. Edgar would be crushed if his sister were to marry his enemy, Mr. Heathcliff. Knowing so, Heathcliff runs away with her and takes her to Wuthering Heights, where she lives in misery for endless years. Heathcliff himself makes Isabella conscious that she would suffer for Edgar\u2019s sake.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532603","body":"Thanks Adrianna,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290200058","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30522479","dateCreated":"1290190417","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"teagvest","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/teagvest","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30522479"},"dateDigested":1531973865,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":"Heathcliff sees his role as distributing justice by getting revenge; paying others back for how they wronged him. It is evident through everything he does, and he is ruthless and sometimes careless in the ways he does it. For example, he tells Catherine that he seeks no revenge on her; he claims he only wants to get back at Hindley for the rotten childhood he provided. However, he goes and contradicts himself by marrying Isabella: this in no way would harm or humiliate Hindley. It would only shame Edgar, Catherine\u2019s husband, because of his low social status. It also hurts Catherine because she is forced to surrender her true love a second time. He does, however, get revenge on Hindley on becoming owner of Wuthering Heights because of mortgage holdings, instead of the traditional son-becomes-master. Hareton, Hindley\u2019s son, despises his father and takes after Heathcliff in boldness, character, and stature. This is also a form of sufficient revenge.
\nThis degrading pursuit, well, degrades him. His character becomes only bolder and more vulgar. Nelly tells Catherine, \u201c\u2018As soon as you become Mrs. Linton, he loses friend, and love, and all!\u2019\u201d (79). He suffers a great deal: his true love is married to a man he despises; he is married to the sister of the man he despises, whom he despises as well; and has a great deal of justice to deal out. Catherine obviously contributed to this: she married someone else for worldly possessions, forsaking Heathcliff and leaving him without love and friend. He then flees the country for three years, mysteriously, without any clue left behind. Then, after having vanished, he returns as mysteriously as he left and commences his new life of revenge.
\nHis failures are largely influenced by his childhood. Hindley inflicted any kind of misery he could on Heathcliff, which made him angry and bitter. This was one of Heathcliff\u2019s failures- he failed to defend himself as a child. Then when he grew up he, as bitter as he was, was compelled to right that wrong and made up for his lack of self-defense. His revenge took a couple tries to work sometimes, for example, his revenge on Hindley went from simply staying at the Heights to bringing his wife to live there as well to finally becoming owner of Wuthering Heights.
\nThis suffering he feels is caused mostly by Hindley and Catherine, Hindley for his childhood and Catherine for forsaking him for someone else. The anguish he feels he multiplies by attempting to cure his pain. For example, to get revenge on Catherine, he marries Isabella, whom he despises. Although this also shames Edgar, it hurts Heathcliff because he is tied to a person he hates. Isabella tells Nelly that \u201c\u2018[Heathcliff] wishes to provoke Edgar to desperation\u2026 he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him\u2019\u201d (147), which proves his motives. This suffering he realizes comes from himself and other people, not necessarily the gods.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532541","body":"Thanks Teag,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290200004","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30519613","dateCreated":"1290187772","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"MaFe1595","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/MaFe1595","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30519613"},"dateDigested":1531973866,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":" Heathcliff
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\n Heathcliff is perhaps the most important character in the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. He is a very dark man and even cruel, but when we see him as the passionate lover he is to Catherine, how he comes back after three years and how he\u2019s destroyed by her death, we can\u2019t help but pity him. Heathcliff believes that gods control his whole life. Heathcliff doesn\u2019t do anything to have Mr. Earnshaw take him in \u2018under his wing\u2019. The gods schemed that he is now part of the Earnshaw family. Because of this, his life turns into hell. When both of the Earnshaw parents die, Hindley takes over as Mr. Earnshaw. Hindley doesn\u2019t like Heathcliff and puts him as a servant. Also, if the Earnshaw\u2019s wouldn\u2019t have taken him in, then he wouldn\u2019t have met Catherine, and therefore they would\u2019ve never fallen in love. Because Hindley put Heathcliff as a servant instead of welcomed him to the family, then his social status would be different, and he could\u2019ve married Catherine. Catherine tells Nelly, \u201c\u2026it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.\u201d (Pg.78) Catherine doesn\u2019t want to marry Heathcliff, because he is poor. Afterwards, Catherine marries Edgar, and therefore, he marries Isabella as a form of revenge. If Catherine hadn\u2019t married Edgar, then Heathcliff, with his strong character and short-temper, he wouldn\u2019t have been tempted into wanting to seek revenge from Catherine because they would just be together. We also see the god\u2019s scheme when Catherine dies, because she\u2019s ill. This is another part of the god\u2019s scheme to make him suffer because of his love to Catherine. \u201cCatherine Earnshaw, may you rest not as long as I\u2019m living! You said I kill you- haunt me, then!\u201d He asks for her ghost to haunt him forever. His whole point of living, the only good thing that has happened to him, was Catherine. Catherine brightened his life because for once he felt love. But even then, it\u2019s dark. The strong passion he feels for Catherine instead of making her come for him, it pushes her away. It\u2019s like trying to fit two magnets on the same side. They repel from each other. The gods have a scheme against Heathcliff and therefore his life is dark and bad. The good things that happen to Heathcliff, like falling in love with Catherine, or getting picked from the street by Mr. Earnshaw, they end up in suffering and in darkness. The things that happen to him are not his fault. His whole life is controlled by an outer force rather than by his own will.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532501","body":"Great MaFe,
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\nThanks,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290199947","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30495133","dateCreated":"1290148394","smartDate":"Nov 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"maaayyyaaa","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/maaayyyaaa","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222817730\/maaayyyaaa-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30495133"},"dateDigested":1531973866,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"LOOK IT'S A ","description":"Wuthering Heights is centered about the character Heathcliff. In order to understand his role in the novel, we must understand his own understanding of what he understands his role to be, and why he understands it to be so.
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\nIn many ways, Heathcliff believes his role to be that of justice-enforcer and balance-keeper. He is constantly looking for ways to set things \u201cright.\u201d When he overhears Catherine telling Nelly that it would degrade her to marry him, Heathcliff leaves for three years and comes back a wealthy and presentable young man. He tries to prove to Catherine that he is no longer the childish gypsy boy of his past. But it is too late, and Catherine has already married Edgar. Thus begins the deteriorative and interminable path of revenge in which Heathcliff sets out to settle his scores with all those who have wronged him at any point in his life.
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\nHeathcliff has great deal of difficulty explaining why things happened the way they did, and why he must suffer as a result. Oftentimes, he looks to blame others for his sufferings. Blaming others is the easiest way out of a situation. But, deep down, Heathcliff also recognizes that his own actions are at the heart of his suffering. This two-way blame is illustrated by his simultaneous sadism and masochism. When Heathcliff takes pleasure in hurting himself, we know he feels remorse or responsibility for something that happened. Upon his three years\u2019 return, he says to Catherine, \u201c\u2026I meditated this plan: \u2014just to have one glimpse of your face\u2026 afterwards settle my score with Hindley; and then prevent the law by doing execution on myself,\u201d (94). Here we see Heathcliff\u2019s simultaneous self-torment and torment of others. He needs to first torment Hindley for all the pain he\u2019d endured in his childhood, and then he needs to torment himself for allowing Catherine fall to someone as odious as Edgar.
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\nNext, Heathcliff marries Isabella for the sole purpose of revenge. This distresses Catherine, just as he has intended it to. As he later asserts, he and Catherine share the same essence; the same life; the same soul. So by tormenting Catherine, it follows that he is also tormenting himself. And it is just so. His perfidious actions towards Isabella, and later Hareton and Linton, cross from being vindictive to purely sadistic. His soul is torn apart by regret and remorse. He has forgotten how to care about other people, and his only motives are for his own selfish acquisitions, like that of Thrushcross Grange by means of Linton. Following Catherine\u2019s death, we see the climax of Heathcliff\u2019s guilt. He implores Catherine to haunt him and then proceeds to masochistically bash his head against a tree. As Nelly describes it, then he \u201chowl[s], not like a man, but like a savage beast getting goaded to death with knives and spears,\u201d (162). Heathcliff is the savage beast now being punished horribly for some monstrous act. The source of the beast\u2019s sufferings is the beast itself.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532473","body":"Thanks Maya,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290199913","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30494741","dateCreated":"1290146344","smartDate":"Nov 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"julibarca10","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/julibarca10","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1269448814\/julibarca10-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30494741"},"dateDigested":1531973866,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff ","description":"Heathcliff
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\nHeathcliff was lucky enough to be \u201creborn\u201d into a new family new class and new lifestyle; he was miraculously put in the way of Mr. Earnshaw who brought him back home were Gods plan would be achieved or so he believed, since he considered himself a tortured soul. Once he was split away from Catherine he became one sour soul and he spent the rest of his life searching for a way to get revenge, this hints us that in a way he feels it is his fault that Catherine died and that he didn\u2019t manage to be with her, he feels anger because in a sense he failed. He could have controlled his fate and ended up with Catherine, but no he failed miserably and now all shall pay too. "I seek no revenge on you...Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home." (pg. 109) Heathcliff here expresses his desire to have revenge to forge his own future and also to allow Catherine to torture him not the Gods, but Catherine. Heathcliff doesn\u2019t know what his role in the world is, he arrived to a home after wondering the streets, and in the home once Earnshaw passed away he received nothing but hatred leaving him purely confused about what his role in the world was, he then loses his love Catherine and what is left for him is plainly pain and suffering brought to him by Catherine, for him his role will be to suffer eternally and be taunted by the ghost of Catherine. His role will be to get revenge from all of those who once took away something from him, starting with Edgar who stole his precious Catherine. Heathcliff being the type of person he is, doesn\u2019t only recognize the mistakes and failure lie within him but he takes the full blame of everything on him, he even began to consider Catherine\u2019s death his fault. \u201cYou said I killed you- haunt me then!\u201d (pg 161-162) Heathcliff has a tendency to take defeats very personally; he seems to be a very resentful and grudging person this probably leads to way back when, when Hindley would mistreat him when Heathcliff was young since the old Hindley hated Heathcliff who was Mr. Earnshaw\u2019s favorite. Followed by this the grudge and hate towards the people was further accentuated when Hindley forced him to work on the fields and it all came down when Catherine was not allowed to be with him anymore. Heathcliff in the end is an extremely tortured soul, who has an hazed vision of what, who, and especially of why he is the way he is. All the events that led up to his adult life, only blurred him from the truth. Growing up being an adopted child who has hated by his brothers, who was his fathers favorite but in the end he had to work on the fields, definitely brought confusion towards his true identity and when Catherine denied him for his appearance Heathcliff completely threw away his old being, just to reborn from the ashes of an old Heathcliff to bring this time a new more powerful Heathcliff who only looked for revenge.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532397","body":"Thanks Julian,
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\nWebster","dateCreated":"1290199832","smartDate":"Nov 19, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"davidgarethw","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/davidgarethw","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"30481247","dateCreated":"1290128232","smartDate":"Nov 18, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"caro3arias","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/caro3arias","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30481247"},"dateDigested":1531973866,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"PINK ELEPHANT","description":"Heathcliff understands that all of his successes and failures are arise from himself. He blames himself for Hareton\u2019s survival, Catherine\u2019s death, Isabella\u2019s intrusion and Hindley\u2019s demise.
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\n When Heathcliff caught Hareton after Hindley dropped him, he did not curse the gods for this nauseating coincidence, he fully blamed himself. \u201c\u201dIt expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge\u201d (73). He understood that if it had not been for him, Hareton would have smashed to bits and Hindley would have been carted off to jail. If it had not been for him, his tormentor would have to leave. And this is one fault that Hindley takes credit for.
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\n Heathcliff also feels guilty for Catherine\u2019s death but at the same time wants to be punished for this \u201cmurder\u201d. \u201cYou said I killed you- haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers\u201d (162). He recognizes that Catherine would not have gotten sick if he had not made her so angry. If she had not been so angry, she wouldn\u2019t have stopped eating and then she wouldn\u2019t have gotten sick. He knows this and so he beats himself against a tree, wanting to cause damage to himself.
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\n Heathcliff also knows that he brought Isabella\u2019s silly, foolish ways onto himself. He purposely encouraged her puppy dog ways by giving her the impression that he was fond of her by \u201cembracing\u201d her and then proposing. He knows that if he had no done so, Edgar would have never allowed it and therefore the blame is fully on his shoulders. Now he will have to put up with her whining, with her spoiled manner and listen to her constant curses.
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\n One of the successes that Heathcliff is quite proud of is Hindley\u2019s deterioration. Yes, Hindley turned into a drunk all on his own but it was Heathcliff\u2019s scheming that caused him to lose that house and his son. Heathcliff took advantage of Hindley\u2019s alcoholism so when he had to sell of the house, he immediately snatched it up. He also taught Hareton to disobey his father, shrewdly taking the only thing that Hindley had control over. This one success over his old tormentor he planned himself.
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\nI do not admire Heathcliff in any way and I find it piteous the way he brings many of his misfortunes onto himself. I also detest the way he plans many of his successes because many of them have dark motivations like revenge.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532351","body":"Great Carolina,
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\nCharacter Analysis: Heathcliff
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\n Heathcliff is probably the most important character in Emily Br\u00f6nte\u2019s Wuthering Heights. He affects the actions of every other character in the book, and turns the plot around whenever he changes his mind. This is not just because of the passionate love towards Catherine, but because of his point of view and reactions to it, regarding other people as well.
\n Heathcliff\u2019s life is always surrounded by cruelty and hatred. When he is adopted by the Earnshaw family, he immediately grows a huge rivalry with Hindley. When Mr. Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes in charge of Wuthering Heights, he treats Heathcliff miserably, punishing him constantly and using him as a servant rather than a member of the family. Later on, Catherine also turns her back on him, since she prefers to marry Edgar Linton for his wealth, even though they both had loved each other since the first moment they met. Heathcliff, however, never manages to stop loving her, and is in constant torment when Catherine dies. All the suffering and cruelty Heathcliff had to go through turned him into a dark, vindictive man. This causes him to see his main goal as to seek revenge. He believes he does not have any other purpose in life but to be with Catherine and to have revenge on those who are against him. When he comes back from three years of absence, he tells Catherine that his plans were \u201cjust to have one glimpse of your face\u2026 afterwards settle my score with Hindley, and then preven the law by doing execution of myself,\u201d (94). Here we can see that Heathcliff only cares about revenge and his love for Catherine. Because of this, he not only wants to take revenge on Hindley, but on Edgar too, since he was the one who separated them. Isabella tells Nelly, \u201cHe wishes to provoke Edgar to desperation\u2026 he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him,\u201d (147).
\n Heathcliff\u2019s heart is always in sorrow. He is never able to be with Catherine, and when she dies he finds himself in a place comparable to hell. However, he thinks all this suffering comes from above, not from his behavior. He promises Catherine, \u201cMisery, degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us,\u201d (156). He is blaming God and the devil for the suffering their love has to go through. When Catherine dies, he claims, \u201cCatherine Earnshaw, may you not rest while I\u2019m alive!\u201d (161). Heathcliff believes God will not let those who are cruel, or have caused suffering, rest in peace until the due is paid, and that is why he says she shall not be in heaven while he is still on Earth.
\nHeathcliff\u2019s torment turns him sometimes inhumanly cruel, \u201ca devil,\u201d as Isabella describes him. This is because he takes revenge on everyone who caused him suffering. When Catherine dies, revenge is the only thing Heathcliff is left with, since his pain has destroyed his soul. He also states several times he believes in the divine interventions in his fate, blaming them for his sorrow.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30532333","body":"Thanks Paula,
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