Heathcliff Revenge Quotes

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In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is seeking Justice. He is looking for revenge since he was brutally abused and was treated very badly. He had many problems with Hindley and passed through some horrible times. First, in the story of Wuthering Heights, Heathclif and Hindley had many problems between each other. Heathcliff was currently seeking revenge on him. He didn’t care how long it would take to seek revenge on him, but he only hoped he didn’t die before Hindley. In the book, Heathcliff achieves Hindley to get his attention and to provoke him to make some argument. He lets him get all power so at the end he could suffer. Furthermore, throughout the novel, it took Heathcliff some time to get revenge. He didn’t care how hard it

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