Wuthering Heights: Jealousy

In the gothic novel Wuthering Heights the author, Emily Bronte, uses many different factors in order to make the events more dramatic and effective in order to grab the reader’s attention. There are many factors that are incorporated and play a major role in the book. These factors affect the characters in which lead to the tragic events that take place. Jealousy plays a major role in the tragic events that occur in Wuthering Heights. Jealousy plays a key role in the development of the characters and influences the actions they take on each other. The jealousy between the characters of Hindley and Heathcliff began the first second Heathcliff was brought into the home of the Wuthering Heights. Hindley was jealous of Heathcliff he instantly won the affection of his father that he was denied as a child. In the novel it states “He has been blaming our father for treating Heathcliff too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place” This whole revenge circle that is never ending all started with hindley envying heathcliff because his father loved an orphan more than his biological son. That caused the downfall and how the jealousy

Infatuation and revenge may play a key role on how the events play out in the story. Some characters get revenge on each other in some horrid ways. One example is Heathcliff taught Hindley's child to swear and be rude in order to get back at Hindley for being rude to him his whole life especially as a child. “It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge”. In order to get back at hindley instead of letting the Hareton die, he taught him to be nasty and rude. However Jealousy is the main key role that shapes the story and makes it how it is. Hindley envying Heathcliff for robbing him of his father's love is what caused this vicious cycle of