Whutering Heights

What is about a tragic hero that enraptures a reader to fall irrevocably in love with him? Maybe it is the humanly way in which they hurt and feel just like the audience, or the fact that wevicariously live just a little bit through that character. Or, it could be that the innate way the protagonist handles any situation is just plainly bizarre. For instance the anti-hero of all hero’s (myopinion) Wuthering Heights’ Heathcliff. Many debate whether the anti-hero title really fits, or that he was just an insane character who is cold heartedly evil. I of course beg to differ; yea maybeHeathcliff should not have sought to seek revenge to everyone who was associated in one way or another to a crappy life of dissolute and loveless. Maybe just maybe he was perhaps in some way mentallyincapable of functioning right. Ok it’s clear that that is the case in reference to the character. But had anyone been able to diagnose him with a disorder like it is done today things would probably bedifferent.
To start off with Heathcliff, no one knows what his real name is or if he had family anywhere. He was found on the streets of Liverpool, England when he was a little boy. Taken in from theEarnshaw family and raised there. He was constantly physically abused by Hindley and resented by Catherine; who soon befriended him and ultimately fell in love. He was very reserved, non-complainingand tough; with all the abuse he was never heard to cry not until Master Earnshaw’s death. Time passes and he is then treated like a mere servant and Catherine grows apart from him, seeking out aneighbor called Linton. Mishears Catherine telling Nelly; servant, that she can never be with Heathcliff because he is poor and has nothing to offer, he leaves right after and never hears the remainingbit of her love for him and her want for his accomplishment. Years pass he returns and seek vengeance on everyone. He is rich and well endowed on his own and finds Catherine is married to Linton....