ealing with an inversion of the myths in the character of Dracula himself, a character who dies and is reborn but who is evil rather than good and destructive rather than nurturing. The hero who opposes him reconciles the opposing forces of good and evil, light and dark, life and death.
The character of Heathcliff in Emily Brontd'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 an
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