Wuthering Heights Good Vs Evil Essay

Every story has two sides, and neither side views themselves as the bad side. Although their actions seem evil on the surface, deep down they are believed to be justified. Take the American Revolution, for instance, on the outside it was treasonous terrorist fighting against an oppressive tyrant. But neither side looked at the situation like that. The treasonous terrorist viewed themselves as defenders of freedom trying to free themselves grasp of the tyrant’s unfair rule, and the oppressive tyrant viewed himself as a protector of his colonies trying to defend them from the terrorist. Only with further insight do the two sides become sympathetic fighting for a just cause. Like these two groups of people, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights displays a myriad of characters whose actions mark the character as evil, but upon further investigation, the reader becomes more sympathetic when it is reveled why the character did such evil things. But none of the characters come close in complexity to Heathcliff. Throughout he book he is referred as a “wolfish man”(102), a “hellish villain”(138) and “that

Not only does Heathcliff use her in his evil scheme, but he abuses her until she can’t tell is he is “a man (or) a devil” (136). A truly heinous action, but after delving into why he did it, the reader justifies this because Edgar stole away the love of Heathcliff’s life, Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff only does this because his love for Catherine is unrequited due to Edgar getting between them. The only way for Heathcliff to show Edgar the pain of losing someone you love to someone you hate was to take Isabelle away from Edgar, and make her miserable to “provoke Edgar to desperations”(152). The reader is able to sympathize with Heathcliff because it is easy to understand the feeling of losing someone close to you, and urge to want to project your pain onto someone