A Brontë-related paper recently published:
Heathcliff: A Human or a Demon? An Exploration of the Complexities of Character in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Dr.A.Narayanan Assistant Professor/English, SRM TRP Engineering College,
Narayanan /Star International Journal, Volume 12, Issue 11(1), November(2024)
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights presents a character of profound complexity, Heathcliff. This research article examines whether Heathcliff should be interpreted as a human or a demon, analyzing his actions, motivations, and relationships within the novel. By exploring Heathcliff's behavior, his interactions with other characters, and the novel's gothic elements, this study aims to illuminate the dubious nature of him and the ways in which Bronte’s characterization challenges conventional boundaries between the human and the supernatural. In this context, Arnold Kettle examines how Heathcliff rebels against the capitalist temperaments of the bourgeois family, like those of Lintons and Earnshaws. He emerges as an evil element due to the cruel treatment meted out to him by Hindley and Edgar Linton, the members of the high born society (Kettle, 1951). However, He, being the wild outcast is fortunate enough to gain the company of Catherine who shows him a kind of human understanding and goodwill. She joins him in his rebellion against the hegemony and tyranny of Hindley and Frances, an upper class people
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