Wuthering Heights: Who is Heathcliff? 

There's one thing a lot of people don't think of when describing Heathcliff as some kind of demon....and that is, what happened to him before Earnshaw found him? We have zero knowledge of what kind of a life he endured. Was he abused? Absolutely certain of that, his strange behaviour - a tendency to keep his emotions bottled up, never crying or showing outward distress whenever Hindley beat him - practically yells that he had learned long ago never to let your tormentors see how they've hurt you. Instead, he keeps that deep inside, turning pain into hatred and hurt into a lust for revenge. Heathcliff was a man of extremes - he loved, and hated, with equal passion and fierceness. But, he was still a man, still human. And although he was VERY hard to like, he was also impossible to truly hate. I think we all have a little of him inside us, whenever we have our hearts broken, or rail at the injustice of life.

I love the way he narrates. Like he is so passionate about literature nd those deep complex feeling that authors often pose.

Heathcliff is the angel of revenge . He is everyone , he is you and me , he is the love and the hate , he is the revenge and the forgiveness , he is the life .

Wuthering Heights is deeply supernatural. It begins (more or less) with a ghost, and ends with "unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth". Accordingly, Heathcliff is a demon who arrives out of nowhere. He possesses all members of both families. Some yield, others struggle but lose. The twist is that only one, the first Cathy, also possesses him back. This is the beginning of his undoing, accomplished by the next generation. IMO, there is one film adaptation that gets it right, the Japanese version called Arashi ga oka, 1988, by Yoshishige Yoshida.

SPOILER: The novel made me wonder if it was simply the setting of Heathcliff's purgatory. He appears like a demon, as if from nowhere; he doesn't know who he is himself, and seems to be in a state of perpetual anguish and suffering; until he eventually gets the relief he so desired. It really felt like that to me, but I'm probably way off.

Heathcliff: Landlord from Hell. I love it xDD

I've visited Top Withens, it is an extraordinary place, despite the long walk.

Heathcliff is an excellent character,wrote by Emily Bronte ,no one can in future can do it

It is a mater of contradiction whether Heathcliff's love had sexual orientation only. But his love for Cathy had a kind of destructive power which could have destroyed everything obstucting its path, and almost did.

Heathcliff is a cool cat

But a lot of times, characters from classic literature are not intended to be likable. Take Scarlet O’Hara from Gone With The Wind, for example. She was a charismatic character, but she was certainly anything but likable most of the time. Yet we were still made to have sympathy for her at times too. Heath cliff was similar.

In the book, Heathcliff is described as a "dark-skinned gypsy" and "a little lascar". The term "lascar" was used in the 19th century to refer to Indian sailors, and was sometimes used for a gypsy. In the story, Heathcliff will also take out his revenge on innocent persons because of who they are related to in order to punish that other person. Miss Bronte created Heathcliff to be alluring and what today we might call "cool". But dangerous.

Bowen implies Heathcliff could be Irish, fleeing from the famine in the 1840s. But didn't the events take place from 1770s to the first decade of the 1800s? I mean, he could have been Irish, but he didn't flee from the 1840s famine.

When they said 'Indian Prince in the novel - I always assumed 'Red Indian'.

Chapter 3: Heathcliff stood near the entrance, in his shirt and trousers; with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him.

Background music is intolerable. It's distracting and makes it hard to hear the speaker.

Erlking heathcliff moment🙀 (Limbus comoany reference)

I don't think you've quite got the point of the book.

I'm the real Heathcliffe. No one will ever understand the depths, the love, the hate, the depths of misery and passion, since his time, that I do. It's a curse. Trust me.

For fucks sake why the need to play background music over the person speaking? Doesnt bloody help that the man talking is quietly spoken either! smh

The man is absolutely wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The love that Heathcliff had for Cathy was anything but sexual!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why o why must people lie about Wuthering Heights??????????????????????????