The Character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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The Character of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte In "Wuthering Heights" Heathcliff is both a romantic hero and a villain. As a romantic hero he is noble, brave and involved in a passionate love affair, he is also the main character. He is called a villain that means he is spiteful and only thinks about himself. Nobody, except Catherine and maybe Hareton like him. He immediately turns Lockwood against him, because he patronises Lockwood in a sophisticated manner that Lockwood doesn't understand. No one speaks well of him. However he exerts a powerful charm on everybody. Heathcliff's dislike of Lockwood has limits, in that he isn't prepared to be a party to his death by sending him out onto the heights. "You must share a bed with Hareton or Joseph," In this essay I hope to show that Heathcliff contradicts himself in the way he behaves, as a romantic hero and as a villain. A male romantic hero is brave, thoughtful, handsome, gentlemanly, dark, mysterious and dangerous. Heathcliff is all of these and more. Heathcliff also fulfils the role of a Victoria...

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