Wuthering Heighs Revenge

In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, revenge is a major theme from beginning to end. Although this theme is present within all of Brontë’s characters, it is most obviously displayed through Heathcliff, who seems to have the greatest desire for revenge on other characters. Heathcliff plots revenge on three main characters. First, he plots revenge on Cathy for “killing” Catherine during birth. Secondly, Heathcliff plots revenge on Hindley and for his cruel …

…Cathy that served as the device in Heathcliff’s revenge plot, for he knew that when Edgar died, Heathcliff could claim Thrushcross Grange as his own land through the nuptial union of his son and Catherine and Edgar’s daughter. Therefore, author Emily Brontë has illustrated it supremely and poetically that revenge is by far the most direct plot device throughout the novel of Wuthering Heights and it is most applied to the antihero Heathcliff.