Wuthering Heights ? 4

I think that the hero in Wuthering Heights is Heathcliff. Heathcliff came into the story when Mr. Earnshaw brought him home from Liverpool. He was a dark haired gipsy who was starving, dirty, and homeless. After being at the Earnshaw's for awhile, Heathcliff and Catherine become inseparable. "Miss Cathy and he were now very thick." (Bronte 38) Catherine fell in love with him because he is strong and they are so much alike. Heathcliff is the hero because he became a different person after being adopted by the Earnshaw's. He found a love interest in Catherine but later married Isabella Linton out of spite. Heathcliff did not marry her for love but only to make Edgar jealous. Heathcliff represents a couple of different abstract ideas such as, evil and strength. He represents evil because he spends a lot of his time plotting revenge on Edgar. One time when visiting Catherine, he realizes that Isabella is infatuated with him so he marries her to make Edgar jealous. Heathcliff also represents strength because he had to be strong to withstand the beatings at Wuthering Heights. Staying strong was the only thing he could do to not go crazy when Catherine married Edgar.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.