Emily Bronte’s acclaimed novel, Wuthering Heights, is a story about revenge and how it affects the lives of the characters in the novel; it depicts the lives of the residents at Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Bronte uses revenge extensively in her novel to create an unforgettable story about extreme cases of love, and the effects it has on a later generation. Bronte utilizes revenge to concoct a praised novel of passionate love and undying hate.
Bronte’s usage of revenge adds further interest to this novel. As can be read in the book, Heathcliff was adopted and mistreated by his non biological brother, Hindley. Years pass, and, after Heathcliff’s three-year hiatus, Heathcliff returns to find Hindley an insane drunkard and takes the opportunity to exact revenge. In Chapter 3, one reads, “He [Hindley] has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. [Heathcliff] too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place” (Bronte 22). This quote gives …show more content…
“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” (Bronte 59). This means that Heathcliff desires to exact revenge on Hindley for abusing him. These vengeful feelings intercedes with his adulation for Catherine Earnshaw. Revenge eventually utterly consumes Heathcliff’s life.
At the end of the novel, Heathcliff’s vindictiveness has finally caught up to him, and he is enervated. “It is a poor conclusion, is it not… An absurd termination to my violent exertions… Now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives… I don’t care for striking… I have lost the faculty for enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing” (Bronte 308). By the end of the novel, Heathcliff no longer is vengeful and irate. The novel has intelligently shown that revenge is a waste of time, and
Bronte’s usage of revenge adds further interest to this novel. As can be read in the book, Heathcliff was adopted and mistreated by his non biological brother, Hindley. Years pass, and, after Heathcliff’s three-year hiatus, Heathcliff returns to find Hindley an insane drunkard and takes the opportunity to exact revenge. In Chapter 3, one reads, “He [Hindley] has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. [Heathcliff] too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place” (Bronte 22). This quote gives …show more content…
“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” (Bronte 59). This means that Heathcliff desires to exact revenge on Hindley for abusing him. These vengeful feelings intercedes with his adulation for Catherine Earnshaw. Revenge eventually utterly consumes Heathcliff’s life.
At the end of the novel, Heathcliff’s vindictiveness has finally caught up to him, and he is enervated. “It is a poor conclusion, is it not… An absurd termination to my violent exertions… Now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives… I don’t care for striking… I have lost the faculty for enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing” (Bronte 308). By the end of the novel, Heathcliff no longer is vengeful and irate. The novel has intelligently shown that revenge is a waste of time, and