The novel ends with the death of Heathcliff, who has become a broken, tormented man, haunted by the ghost of the elder Catherine, next to whom he demands to be buried. His corpse is initially found by Nelly Dean, who, peeping into his room, spots him.

Thrushcross Grange

To the surprise of the villagers, Catherine is not buried in the Linton tomb, nor by the graves of her relatives. Instead, Edgar orders that she be buried in a corner of the churchyard overlooking the moors that she so loved.

Yorkshire

Because of her desire for social prominence, Catherine marries Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Heathcliff’s humiliation and misery prompt him to spend most of the rest of his life seeking revenge on Hindley, his beloved Catherine, and their respective children (Hareton and young Catherine).

Edgar Linton

The superficial answer to this question is that no, they did not sleep together. We never are told that they are sexually involved. They separate when they are both about seventeen, and when Heathcliff reappears, they are both about twenty. Catherine is married when Heathcliff returns and dies not too long afterwards.

After Heathcliff’s death, Cathy and Hareton get married on New Year and move to Thrushcross Grange.

Catherine describes to Nelly the different types of love that she has for Heathcliff and Edgar Linton. While her love for Edgar will change over time, Catherine sees her love for Heathcliff as solid and eternal, as if she and Heathcliff inhabit the same body.

In Chapter 15, Heathcliff himself burst into Cathy’s room and in a moment she was in his arms. He begins to show countless kisses on her.

Edgar loves Catherine dearly despite her passion for Heathcliff, and adores their daughter, Cathy, who is named after his wife. When Edgar’s sister, Isabella, marries Heathcliff, Edgar insists that he will no longer haith her, and that they are brother and sister only in name.

Heathcliff has been maligned as a sociopath or a vicious psychopath, and while he did show cruelty to those he felt had wronged him, others showed cruelty to those innocent of any transgressions against them, and they showed this cruelty to an appalling degree.

Heathcliff, the protagonist of Wuthering Heights, is well-known as a romantic hero, due to his undying love for Catherine. However, in the second half of the novel, he is nothing more than a man driven by revenge; a villainous character seeking to gain control by manipulating those around him.

After several months, Heathcliff and Isabella marry, but she soon realises her mistake, sending a long letter to Nelly in which she details her hostile and displeasing “welcome” at the Heights and her hatred for Heathcliff, who has made it clear that he has married her only because he is now the heir to the Grange.

Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, is abusive and aggressive. One example of his abusive behavior is when he hangs Isabella’s dog. Another instance of his brutality is the way that he treats his wife.

General speculation seems to be that he hired himself out as a mercenary, or perhaps found a patron whose fortune he inherited, or what seems to be the most popular speculation, that he was involved in the slave trade long enough to make enough of a fortune to feel it was time to return home.

Heathcliff broke through a window, grabbed the knife, and slashed Earnshaw up the arm, severing an artery. He held off Isabella with one hand to prevent her from summoning Joseph to help. Finally the next morning, Heathcliff accused Isabella of conspiring against him with Earnshaw.

When Heathcliff left Thrushcross Grange, he hung Isabella’s dog. This action is foreshadowing the poor treatment that Heathcliff will give Isabella while she stays with him. Because Heathcliff kills the dog and because killing the dog is foreshadowing his violence towards Isabella, dogs a a symbol of violence.

The Heathcliff of Andrea Arnold’s 2011 remake of Wuthering Heights is also black. Arnold makes no reference to Yorkshire’s real black histories in interviews about the film. Instead, he concluded that the film’s depiction of a black Heathcliff is rather “a puzzle”.

Dogs are used to symbolize Isabella’s entrance and exit from Wuthering Heights. This action by Heathcliff serves as a warning of his future treatment of Isabella and shows how she will feel helpless and strangled in a loveless, abusive relationship with Heathcliff.

The harm caused to others by the deprivation of love is a major theme in Wuthering Heights, and we see, by way of contrast, that the kindness of young Cathy is so very helpful to both Linton and Hareton. The key point here is that every person’s life touches the lives of many others – either for the good or bad.

Symbols

• Ghosts. Ghosts symbolize lost souls, memory, and the past in Wuthering Heights, and Brontë uses this symbol to support the themes of love and obsession and good versus evil.
• Weather, Wind, and Trees. Brontë uses weather to produce tone, reflect the plot, and mirror characters’ emotions.
• The Moors.
• Dogs.
• Hair.

Moors. The constant emphasis on landscape within the text of Wuthering Heights endows the setting with symbolic importance. This landscape is comprised primarily of moors: wide, wild expanses, high but somewhat soggy, and thus infertile. Moorland cannot be cultivated, and its uniformity makes navigation difficult.

The two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent opposing worlds and values. The novel has not one but two distinctly different narrators, Nelly and Mr.

Plus, he is never given the last name Earnshaw. Heathcliff’s arrival is seen as a direct threat to just about everyone, but mostly to Hindley. As Nelly Dean tells it, “from the very beginning, [Heathcliff] bred bad feeling in the house” (5.55).

Today, the term Moor is used to designate the predominant Arab-Amazigh ethnic group in Mauritania (which makes up more than two-thirds of the country’s population) and the small Arab-Amazigh minority in Mali.

So-called blackamoors, or Black Moors, were Black servants, originally enslaved North Africans, who worked in wealthy European households from the 15th-18th centuries.

When The Moors Ruled In Europe is a documentary film presented by the English historian Bettany Hughes. It is a two-part series on the contribution the Moors made to Europe during their 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal ending in the 15th century.

As a large and diffuse ethnic group, the Moors consisted mostly of Berbers from Morocco and Western Algeria, sub-Saharan Africans from Mauritania, Northern Senegal, and Western Mali, Arab Bedouins, and Arab elite mostly from Yemen and Syria.