He drives Hindley quite deliberately to an early death he certainly contributes to Catherine's death and thus indirectly to Edgar Linton's he treats his own son abominably and does nothing to save him from a highly premature death he probably would have ended up killing Isabella, had she not had the wit and guts to run away, and he sets out to corrupt and degrade Hareton. Admittedly, after Mr Earnshaw's death he experiences degrading treatment at the hands of Hindley, but, like Iago in Othello, the revenge he subsequently takes seems out of all proportion to the wrong he has suffered. When we consider what Heathcliff does in the course of the book, we find that it adds up to an appalling catalogue.
Heathcliff has become one of the great romantic heroes of English literature, but on any rational basis it is at first sight difficult to justify this adulation.
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