Wuthering Heights As a child, all things said and done to you can have such an impact that they will affect how you live the rest of your life. Actions put upon you can become the actions that you perform on others. One such situation occurred with Heathcliff the main character in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté. Heathcliff enters the story as character with an unknown past. At the age of six or seven Heathcliff's …showed first 75 words of 1171 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1171 total…revenge. Heathcliff's final thirst for revenge is quenched however by his failure to remain passionate. In the final chapters of the novel, he is torn between two competing passions, that for revenge and that for sympathy and fondness for Hareton. Finally he possesses no ability to prevent the future happiness of the younger generation and deprived of his passion, dies. He took what he knew to be life itself and forced that wretchedness on them.