The character of Heathcliff in Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights is a tormented man whose love, developed during his childhood and directed at Catherine, turns to a hate that is directed against all the world except Catherine. In the end, he takes that hatred with him to the grave. Heathcliff is a character who embodies opposites--love and hate, a lower social class origin though he is raised in an upper class atmosphere, and in his desire for revenge is a coming together of the passion of hatred and the calculation of rationality. His response throughout is based on the desire to belong while being called and treated as an outsider. His freedom is curtailed by his birth and lack of social position. In this society, a highly stratified society, Heathcliff has no place because he was found as a child and raised in a home not really his own
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