Heathcliff’s actions plead for the decrease of sympathy from the reader, however because of human nature and how people will often justify actions based on the situation, the readers overlook the majority of his actions and continue to sympathize with him. By never being taught love, and enduring abuse and losing his loved ones, Mr.Earsnshaw and Catherine, he is not to receive any blame for how he ends up because it is the passionate and violent environment that molds him into the evil man that he is. However, this justification only works to a certain extent because, when he treats those around him with hatred he does so purposefully out of his own free will, while understanding how his actions are perceived and affect others. By looking
