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Wuthering Heights

——

Revenge

Well, before I begin my part, I would like to ask you a question that is if you hate

a

person

a

lot,

what

will

you

do?

Keep

silence?

Talk

about

your

feelings

with

the

person immediately and try to solve the problem? Or hurt the person to express your

anger? Or deal with it in other ways? Who can give me

you’re an

answer?

Now let’s

come back to our novel. What did the hero, Heathcliff do when he had extreme hatred?

He

chose

to

revenge

.

Then

in

the

following

part,

I’

ll

begin

with

the

revenge

in

Wuthering

Heights

.

Later

on,

I’d

like

to

talk

about

some

other

related

things

about

revenge.

First,

let’s

see

the

revenge

in

the

novel.

We

know

that

Heathcliff

lives

in

an

abnormal way. People around despised this

‘

evil gypsy

’

. When his beloved Catherine

married

the

gentleman,

Edger

Linton,

for

wealth

and

reputation,

Heathcliff’s

heart

broke completely. His hatred towards Hindley and the Lintons became stronger. When

Catherine died, Heathcliff was like an active volcano, boom!

Heathcliff had a careful plan to revenge. In his generation,

I’

d like to mainly say

something about his marriage with Isabella. This action is the key step to take over the

property

of

the

Lintons.

and

vexed

Edger

mentally.

Just

as

Isabella

’

s

angry

words

‘Whatever he ma

y pretend, he wishes to provoke Edger to desperation; he says he has

married

me

on

purpose

to

obtain

power

over

him…’

Also,

we

can

consider

it

his

revenge

to

Catherine.

He

knew

Catherine

’

s

deep

love

towards

him.

He

knew

his

marriage would hurt Catherine in the same way that she hurt him. The joy of revenge

and the sorrow of love mixed together to become a very complicated feeling. Indeed,

Heathcliff is such a complicated character.

It’s

not difficult to imagine his fierce inter

struggles. Meanwhile, Heathcliff abused his wife, Isabella, as a sort of amusement. As

he himself pointed out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself

by

seeing

how

much

abuse

she

can

take

and

still

come

cringing

back

for

more.

According to a modern study, a lot of criminals were lack of love. They get apathy

even

hatred

from

the

society.

If

the

seeds

of

enmity

are

planted

in

people

’s

hearts

when they were kids, how can we expect these people to be friendly and kind? What

goes around comes around. H is a typical character. When hatred gets its foothold in

his soul, his choice is revenge. When we are shocked by H’s violence, we can feel a

little bit sadness, too.

Although maybe we can consider Hindley

Earshaw and the Lintos Heathcliff

’s

enemy, it’s none of their children’s business, right? We always say that the children

are

innocent.

But

Heathcliff

could

not

stop

the

mad

beast

called

revenge

from

extending its reach to the next generation

. ‘…I want the triumph of seeing…

my

child

hiring their children to till their f

ather’s land for wages.’ What a terrible and poor man!

Because his

own life is

miserable, he

wanted

to

let the next

generation suffer

from

what he has suffered. He used to say to the five years old boy, Hindley

’

s son, Hareton:

‘Now, my bonny lad, you are

mine

! And

we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked

as another, with the same wind to twist it!’ It’s the sort of thing that

can be done by

the demon. Heathcliff did make the boy as his own duplicate and ruined the boy. Will

you be as lowly as a maid or a servant in you own house? It sounds quite ridiculous!

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