Revealing Different Opinions While reading Wuthering Heights, the feelings towards characters shift. In one chapter there may be sympathy towards a character, where in the next chapter there may be no sympathy at all. From feeling bad for them, to wishing they would get what they deserve, there are many drastic changes throughout the novel. A great example is Heathcliff. The way Heathcliff was neglected and bullied as a child reflects onto his actions in adulthood. Heathcliff was brought up from a hard past, which makes it easy for people to sympathize for him. When Heathcliff first came to Wuthering Heights everyone referred to him as “it”. “The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner” (Brontë 37). As a baby he was brought into a new home and was hated by mostly everyone for just being there and he was very unwelcomed. Cathy would spit on Heathcliff and the …show more content…
While Hindley was drunk, he accidentally dropped Hareton over the banister. Heathcliff had just arrived under the banister in time and caught him. Heathcliff thought about how he should have dropped Hareton after he caught him (Brontë 73-75). Heathcliff takes his anger out on people or on things that have nothing to do with the situation. Being abused and neglected by Hindley during his childhood is no excuse to hang Isabella’s dog by a handkerchief (Brontë 133-144). By capturing and imprisoning Cathy and Nelly, this shows that Heathcliff takes his anger out on other people and loves to see them just as miserable as he is. With the evidence of Heathcliff doing these terrible and harmful things, the way people feel sorry for him slowly