In keeping with the supernatural themes present in the novel, it is speculated that Heathcliff might be a demon or a hellish soul. Heathcliff (played by Richard Burton) with Catherine, in a 1958 adaption of Wuthering HeightsĪ foundling discovered on the streets of Liverpool and raised by the Earnshaw family of Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire, Heathcliff's past and early childhood before his mysterious adoption are only hinted at by Brontë. His complicated, mesmerizing, absorbing, and altogether bizarre nature makes him a rare character, incorporating elements of both the hero and villain. He is better known for being a romantic hero due to his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw, than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, during which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that he was an upset and sometimes malicious individual from the beginning.
Owing to the novel's enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured antihero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him in short, the Byronic Hero. Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw (foster sister and a significant other)
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