In the forward to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, her sister Charlotte Bronte describes the protagonist, Heathcliff, to have "a passion such as might boil and glow in the bad essence of some evil genius;- (C. ... Heathcliff's "story is a long list of morally reprehensible actions- (Holderness 27). ... Without Heathcliff as the central figure of Wuthering Heights, the novel lacks a meaningful theme. ... As Heathcliff tries to reenter Wuthering Heights against Hindley's wishes he "kicks and tramples on Hindley, and dashes his head repeatedly against the flags- (E. ... He sets th...

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