Heathcliff: Made A Villain By Love Essay -- essays research papers

Love is a two way street. In order for recognize to work it must be given and returned. If passion is left unfulfilled it can lead a person to be spiteful, vengeful, and at the extreme villainous. In Emily Brontes novel, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is the villain because he is frustrated just about his unrequited love for Cathy. Heathcliffs plague is apparent in how he treats the Earnshaws, contaminating Hindley and Hareton just as Hindley did him. This is also shown in his actions against the Lintons. Heathcliff hates the Lintons because Cathy conjoin Edgar. Heathcliff uses his treachery to steal extraneous the Linton fortune and to degrade their offspring. Heathcliffs crime is finally shown in how he treats Cathy herself. He loves her so much he hates her. He feels that Cathy betrayed her lovingness and married Edgar. Heathcliff as the villain is first shown in his actions against the Earnshaws.     When Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights after some(prenominal) years, his frustration leads him to exact revenge on Hindley Earnshaw. Heathcliff blames Hindley for Cathy not returning his love and becoming married to Edgar. Hindley reduced Heathcliff to such a status that it would go Cathy to marry him. Heathcliffs villainy is shown when he returns the favour to Hindley, reducing him and his son Hareton to consideration class. This is apparent when Heathcliff is talking to Nellie about his joy in degrading Hareton, he says,      Ive pleasure in him...He has satisfied my expectations - if he were born a slang      I should not enjoy it half so much - yet hes no fool and I can sympathise with      all his feelings, having mat them myself - I know what he suffers now, for instance exactly - it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer though. And hell never      be able to issue from his bathos of coarseness, and ignorance. Ive got him &nbs p    faster than his scoundral of a father secured me, and lower for he takes a pride      in his brutishness. (252-253)This is also shown when Heathcliff accidentally saves Hareton from certain death. This is apparent when Nellie says, "A miser who has parted with a lucky lottery ticket for five shillings, and finds close day he has lost in the bargain five t... ...thout her. His villainy is also shown when he talks to Cathy when she is sick. He condemns her for breaking both his heart and hers. This is apparent when Heathcliff says, "Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I lead not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself...Theyll blight you - theyll shit you. You loved me - then what right did you to leave me?...I have not rugged your heart - you have broken in it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine." (197) This quote shows Heathcliffs anger, and his blaming of Cathy for his becoming a villai n. Heathcliff as the villain is shown through his actions towards people.     In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is a villain. He is a villain because of his unrequited love for Cathy. His villainy is shown though his actions towards the Earnshaws, a famliy that degraded him, the Lintons, the people he believes stole Cathy away from him, and Cathy herself, the woman he feels betrayed her heart and his love. Heathcliff felt that he did not have Cathys love, when all the time he truly owned her heart. Without love be returned jealousy and anger could make villains of all.