![]() You teach me now how cruel you've been-cruel and false! Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. Actors who have portrayed Heathcliff on screen include Laurence Olivier, Timothy Dalton, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hardy. ![]() ![]() 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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