Abstract: Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured romantic hero whose all-consuming passions destroy both him and those around him.His complicated, mesmerizing, consumable, and altogether bizarre nature makes him a rare character, with components of both the hero and villain. Thus, this paper attempts to delineate the ''ThePortrayalofHeathcliff'sCharacter in “Wuthering Heights". The significance of this paper lieson the ThePortrayalofHeathcliff'sCharacter .The study follows the Descriptive Analytical Method. It begins by an introduction forming a background to the study; followed by a summary of the plot, a literature review, a discussion and a conclusion. The findings of this paper revealed that, both Heathcliff and Edgar eventually die of broken hearts, unable to reconcile themselves to Catherine's death. As if to bring the story full circle, Brontë presents us finally with the possibility of true love and happiness within a relationship that between the two cousins, Cathy and Hareton "one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed." There is no grand passion here, but no violence, either. The novel is a stark warning against the former, and, in Hareton and Cathy's reasoned and gentle love, it promotes the latter as the only sane way to live. In this way, the study recommend that, Wuthering Heights can be seen to be not so much a "love story" but, rather, an investigation into romantic love, comprising a discourse on social conventions, blind passion, violence, jealousy, and revenge, together with the notion of good versus evil.
Keywords: Heathcliff, Romantic Love, religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.
Title: The Portrayal of Heathcliff's Character in "Wuthering Heights"
Author: Amal Mustafa Fadlelseed Al Balola, Dr. AbdulMahmoud Idrees Ibrahim
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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