Wuthering Heights- Is Heathcliff a man or a devil? Essay -- English Li

Wuthering Heights- Is Heathcliff a man or a devil?Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bront and was first published in 1847, it was written during the romantic period, it isa story of love, lust and sorrow all held together by extreme passion,love and hate.One of the principal(prenominal) characters in the book Wuthering Heights isHeathcliff, he was a orphan who lived in Liverpool, we find verylittle about Heathcliffs past before he is follow by the Earnshaws,which makes Heathcliff a mysterious character. When Heathcliff comesto live at Wuthering Heights after being adopted by the Earnshaws, hefeels displaced as he does not do where to fit in with the familywho seem to have tight knit family system. In the beginning it isclear that Heathcliff is rejected by his older step pal Hindly andturns to Catherine for affection, but Heathcliff feels he is notworthy of the affection shown to him by his step father and the familyand this causes problems with members of the family. Hindlya utomatically feels threatened by Heathcliffs presence and his hatefor Heathcliff grows as Heathcliff gets the heed from therefather that Hindly feels he deserve and this causes friction betweenthe two characters. But Heathcliff has needs and one of these is to beloved which he feels only Catherine peck do even from a very schoolgirlish age,they become the best of friends and feel wild together running infields and playing together, and it shows when Heathcliff is youngCatherine is his sole source of self esteem.When Mr. Earnshaw dies Catherine takes comfort with Heathcliff, andHindly comes back from university to attend to the funeral after awhile Heathcliff was degraded by Hindly because of Hindlys jea... ...raded and running awayfrom Wuthering Heights isolate himself from his past only returningwhen he knows his revenge can be had, Heathcliff is also filled withdark qualities which make him return to seek revenge, but a Byronic gunman is usually passionate about a particular i ssue, this particularissue for Heathcliff is Catherine and we see this as he seems to beaddicted to her. A Byronic hero exhibits several characteristictraits, and in many ways he can be considered a rebel. The Byronichero does not possess heroic virtue in the usual sense instead, hehas many dark qualities. With regard to his intellectual capacity,self-respect, and hypersensitivity, the Byronic hero is larger thanlife, and with the loss of his titanic passions, his pride, and hiscertainty of self-identity, he loses also his shape as atraditional hero (Thorslev 187).