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Heathcliff

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He was an orphan who lived at Wuthering Heights that fell in love with Catherine. Catherine married another dude so he decides to try to get revenge throughout the book. In the end, he becomes so rich that he buys Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.(1)

The reason Heathcliff is so fascinating to readers is because he is so different from other people, readers strive to understand him. They also look for things that they want to see in him. For example, his antagonizing personality is often blamed on his love for Catherine which has no outlet. Also the idea that under his harsher exterior is a loving and kind heart is supported by the stereotype romance hero, who is often brutish and harsh, but sensitive underneath. No theory that says he has a kind heart explains why his sadism and cruelty is never unmasked, throughout the whole book, for even a glimpse at softness. (1)

Catherine
Catherine is one of the main characters in Wuthering Heights. She falls very strongly in love with Heathcliff, an orphan her father brings home. However, she is driven by her ambition to be ranked higher socially. Because of this, she decides to marry into a rich family by marrying Edgar. She is often towards these two men in her life. She is described as free-spirited and beautiful, but also very arrogant and throws tantrums if she doesn't get her way. (2)

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Hindley Earnshaw
Hindley is the brother of Catherine and heir to the estate of Wuthering Heights. He has a deep and permanent resentment and hatred of Heathcliff from the moment he meets him. Hindley is married to Frances and they soon conceive a child named Hareton. Frances dies shortly afterwards and Hindley takes no interest in his son and falls into an alcoholic and depressive state. (3)

Lockwood vs Nelly
Lockwood and Nelly, the two narrators of the story, can be seen as opposites in many ways. Lockwood is a highly educated city man, while Nelly is an uneducated servant who has never traveled outside the area in which the book takes place. Lockwood may represent an outsider's view of WH, while Nelly represents the chaotic reality. (5)

Hareton Earnshaw
Hareton Earnshaw is the son of Hindley Earnshaw. He's portrayed as a young Heathcliff, being rude, uncivilized, and tempermental. His bad behaivor may be an effect of the way his father acted while Hareton was young. One incident including the time Hindley dropped him over the banister and Healthcliff, walking underneath, caught the boy. (6)

Edgar Linton
Edgar Linton is sister to Isabella Linton. He has had a very wealthy childhood but is cowardly toward expressing discontent of Heathcliff toward Catherine. He grows up on Thrushcross Grange, on the same estate as the Earnshaws who are at Wuthering Heights. He marries Catherine because of his looks and wealth, but eventually loses control of her to Heathcliff. (7)

Isabella Linton
Isabella Linton, the sister of Edgar, loves and marries Heathcliff. She thinks that he is so romantic. But Heathcliff doesn't return her love and is actually using her as revenge on the Edgar Linton for marrying Catherine, the woman of his heart. (8)

Mr. Earnshaw - Catherine and Hindley’s father. Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff and brings him to live at Wuthering Heights. Mr. Earnshaw prefers Heathcliff to Hindley but nevertheless bequeaths Wuthering Heights to Hindley when he dies.

Mrs. Earnshaw - Catherine and Hindley’s mother, who neither likes nor trusts the orphan Heathcliff when he is brought to live at her house. She dies shortly after Heathcliff’s arrival at Wuthering Heights.(9)

Linton Heathcliff- The son of Isabella and Heathcliff. Linton grew up in London and did not meet his father Healthcliff until he was 13 years old after his mothers death. Linton is described as a weak, demanding individual who has been ill most of his life.(10)

Joseph- Joseph is one of the older servants at Wuthering Heights. He speaks with a very thick Yorkshire accent that is hard to understand. He is rude, ill-tempered and just basically unkind. Joseph is also described in the beginning of the story as fanatically religious, and attending his religious ceremonies with him were long and grueling. He is a background character that is not brought up too often. (11)

Nelly Dean - Nelly Dean (known formally as Ellen Dean) serves as the chief narrator of Wuthering Heights. A sensible, intelligent, and compassionate woman, she grew up essentially alongside Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and is deeply involved in the story she tells. She has strong feelings for the characters in her story, and these feelings complicate her narration. (12)

Young Catherine - her mother, Catherine begins her life as Catherine Earnshaw and ends it as Catherine Linton; where young Catherine begins her life as Catherine Linton, and assuming that she does marry Hareton after the story has ended, she becomes Catherine Earnshaw. Mother and daughter both share similar qualities, as many mothers and children do, other than there names. They both have headstrong behavior, impetuous and occasional arrogance. However, Edgar, young Catherines father seemed to have raised her to be gentler and much more compassionate than her mother was. (12)
Mr.Green- Edgar Linton's lawyer. Mr.Green plays an important role in the story, Edgar died before telling Mr.Green to change his will. If Mr.Green had arrived on time, Edgar would have instructed him to change his will so that Heathcliff would not obtain Thrushcross Grange.(15)

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