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6 pages in length. Who is Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights,' and what is his role within the story's context? Indeed, Heathcliff is destined to become a brooding, troubled and angry man who has lost control of his own life due in large part to the abusive treatment he receives as a child. The writer discusses that the most interesting aspect of Heathcliff's character is the manner by which he perpetually transfers his deep-seated anger and frustration upon all who enter his life, even to the point of emotionally poisoning his own offspring. No additional sources cited.
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to become a brooding, troubled and angry man who has lost control of his own life due in large part to the abusive treatment he receives as a child.
One might argue that the most interesting aspect of Heathcliffs character is the manner by which he perpetually transfers his deep-seated anger and frustration upon all who enter his life,
even to the point of emotionally poisoning his own offspring. In spite of the manner by which he ineffectively works through his life of physical and emotional torment, as
well as the loss of his one true love, Heathcliff comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control.
The "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (Bronte 77) from Liverpool who finds his way back to Wuthering Heights under the protective arm of Mr. Earnshaw is so obviously out
of place socially, culturally and in appearance that he is soon looked upon as a chink in the familys elitist armor. Indications of light and dark serve to segregate
Heathcliff even further in both a biological and racial manner, inasmuch as his bastard upbringing and tattered, ill-mannered countenance lends to his inappropriate presence. One has to wonder why
Mr. Earnshaw ever brings the boy home in the first place - who is "big enough both to walk and talk ... yet, when it was set on its feet,
it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand" (Bronte 77), when he so obviously represents the epitome of opposing social status.
The racially marked Heathcliff, who was the abandoned child of an Irish emigrant family, brings with him an unexpected aspect that Catherine and the
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