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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Bronte, Emily

Bronte, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses

Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff

Heathcliff is an extremely complex character. At first glance he may seem
entirely wicked, even, at times, a criminal. The vicious way in which he helps
to destroy Hindley and brutalizes Isabella and Hareton suggests that he is a
man for whom sympathy ought to be impossible. And when he goes so far as to
kidnap young Catherine and Nelly Dean, he quite flagrantly breaks the law of
society as well at its moral code.

Yet Emily Bronte so manages her dark hero as to make him, at least to a
certain extent, a ...

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