【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 venge. Having been rejected he in turn rejects the system that spawned him and he sets out to destroy it. He attempts to turn the cruelty he experienced back on those whom he feels have wronged him and thereby relieve his own suffering. He substitutes hate for love, violence for peace, and disorder for harmony. He brutally separates those whom he considers his enemies from their forts and security, their honor, and finally from those for whom they care. It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, he owned almost the love of ‘s, because he is the substitute of his died son－ Heathcliff. But all of the family members soon bee involved in turmoil and fighting, the family relationship bees spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason why breaks the toys he had bought for his children. Young Hindley and Catharine don‘t like him, because he usurps the affections of . With the advantage of ‘s favoritisms he exchanges horses with Young Hindley. Hindley had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend. He hates Heathcliff, because he is the only threat of inheriting Wuthering Heights, and he also seizes the love from old Earnshaw. Here, class fight appears. After the death of , he is deprived of love, sociability and education, his life all changed, although his pride nevertheless remains intact. is just like Heathcliff‘s shelter, but the death of him is the turning point of Heathcliff‘s life. From that time, the young Hindly controls the whole family, he treats Heathcliff badly, which behavior even could make a man to a fiend of a saint. He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to bee a farm hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. All this made him distorted humanity. He never fot the injury inflicted on him during his childhood. ’s passionate love to Catherine In the novel, Heathcliff‘s eternal faithfulness to Catharine is easily to see. His love for her continues to be undaunted. The love between them is just like brother and sister at the beginning, which is based on their shared perception that they are identical. Heathcliff feels he belongs with Catherine both in body and in spirit。 life for him is like the spring because of Catherine. From the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff has suffered pain and rejection. Because he loves Catherine, so he doesn‘t care about the prejudice of others. But when Catherine went back from the Grange everything seemed changed. Undountly, Catherine‘s thoughts has changed a little, at last betrayed his love, in favors of the social status and civilized existence of the Grange. Here we can see that the status, wealth and position are over love. Everyone has the chance to choose their own life style, sometimes love is smaller than reality. Although Catherine at last bees Liton‘s wife, it doesn‘t influence Heathcliff‘s faithfulness love to her. He just disappears for three years and returns in the guise of a gentleman. His return is a shock for Catherine, but he still loves her. He expresses his love with cruel methods. Lost Catherine makes him crazy. After the death of Catherine, Heathcliff‘s lust for love is gone. The degree in which Heathcliff is tormented by Catherine is reflected when he said, why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? You love me, what right had you to leave me? The sense of despair following news of Catherine‘s death is a good example of Heathcliff39。s tormented spirit. Life for Heathcliff after Catherine‘s death is an unnatural existence, because Catherine is his soul. With Catherine‘s death Heathcliff‘s anger and frustration peak and his behavior verges on madness. He is unable to consider a life without his beloved. He is consumed with an unspeakable sadness and in desperation he retreats from reality. He is driven on the desire to revenge his loss and alleviate his pain. C. Heathcliff’s character ’s obssession Throughout Wuthering Heights two distinct yet related obsessions drive Heathcliff‘s character: his desire for Catherine‘s love and his need for revenge. Catherine, the object of his obsession, bees the essence of his life, yet, in a sense, he ends up murdering his love. Ironically, after her death, Heathcliff‘s obsession only intensifies. Heathcliff‘s love for Catherine enables him to endure Hindley‘s maltreatment after Mr. Earnshaw‘s death. But after overhearing Catherine admit that she could not marry him, Heathcliff leaves. Nothing is known of his life away from her, but he returns with money. Heathcliff makes an attempt to join the society to which Catherine is drawn. Upon his return, she favors him to Edgar but still he cannot have her. He is constantly present, lurking around Thrushcross Grange, visiting after hours, and longing to be buried in a connected grave with her so their bodies would disintegrate into one. Ironically, his obsession with revenge seemingly outweighs his obsession with his love, and that is why he does not fully five Catherine for marrying Edgar. After Catherine‘s death, he must continue his revenge — a revenge that starts as Heathcliff assumes control of Hindley‘s house and his son — and continues with Heathcliff taking everything that is Edgar‘s. Although Heathcliff constantly professes his love for Catherine, he has no problem attempting to ruin the life of her daughter. He views an ambiguous world as black and white: a world of haves and havenots. And for too long, he has been the outsider. That is why he is determined to take everything away from those at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange who did not accept him. For Heathcliff, revenge is a more powerful emotion than love. ’s ruthlessness The formation of Heathcliff‘s ruthless character is closely related to Catherine, b