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Who is Heathcliff? The Shadow knows.

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20020922
Author:Hume, Marilyn

Charlotte Bronte asks in the preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, "Whether it is right or advisable to create things like Heathcliff," and goes on to say that she scarcely thinks it is. She also suggests that the author has little control over this creative process once it has been set in motion, claiming that it has a life of its own (xxxvi). What is it in Heathcliff that so concerns Charlotte Bronte that she feels a need to question the wisdom of his existence? Is it pure evil in some demonic form? Is it wild unbridled passion, part of the nature of the moors? Is he ...

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