Wuthering Heights - Heathcliff's Immorality

He begins with Hindley. Heathcliff finds Hindley in a worse condition than ever. After Hindley's wife died in childbirth, he began drinking and gambling. Heathcliff took advantage of Hindley's weakness and encouraged his excessive drinking and gambling. Hindley ends up gambling away every bit of money he has to Heathcliff, and the mortgage of Wuthering Heights goes entirely to Heathcliff. This revenge does not end with Hindley, rather, Heathcliff continues his revenge on how he was treated when he was younger on the son of Hindley, Hareton. He says to Hareton after his father dies, "Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!" (159). He does the same to Hindley's son as Hindley did to him. He deprives him of an education and treats him terribly. .
             Furthermore, Heathcliff's bad nature is not only due to the terrible way he was treated by Hindley, but also from his broken heart caused by Catherine. Heathcliff and Catherine grew up together and became very close and formed a close bond. However, as Catherine gets older and she starts hanging out with the Linton's, and she begins to stray away from Heathcliff. She becomes more ladylike and sees Heathcliff, once someone very close and dear to her, as as someone dirty and unmannerly. She begins to be attached to Edgar, who is much more gentlemanly. She becomes so used to Edgar and the Linton's, that everything about Heathcliff becomes unfamiliar. She says to him, "Why, how very black and cross you look! and how- how funny and grim! But that's because I'm used to Edgar and Isabella Linton" (50). This breaks his heart, however, it only gets worse for him. Catherine not only completely embarrasses Heathcliff, but soon after decides to marry Edgar because, "He will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband" (71).