So when I first read this one I instinctively said Catherine. I thought it was obvious and I wondered why you even suggested Heathcliff. Now, however, I am having a really tough time deciding. Catherine is the major character because she is responsible for the love triangle. But then again, the story centers around the love circle and how Heathcliff is determined to seek revenge for his broken heart. If I had to pick one now, I guess I'd have to pick Heathcliff. He lives longer and his selfish attempts at revenge affect the younger generation whereas Catherine's influence mostly dies along with her. Heathcliff not only creates misery in Catherine's life, but also in her daughter's life. His selfish tendencies also greatly influence Linton and Hareton. I keep mentioning the bad influence he had on the children, but really I think that they learned from his awful behaviors the importance of living good lives. You can see evidence of that when the Catherine and Hareton move into TG at the end of the novel, leaving WH in their past.
Touche! Emiliy's response about Catherine is real good. I never thought about it that way, because being the cause of the love triangle does cause a great deal of the conflict in the novel. However, I would definitely have to say that Heathcliff is the main character. It is a story about how he had nothing, and ended up having everything. (Okay, well not everything, because he never really had Catherine) But Heathcliff did have a great deal of things. The story is about how he goes about getting his revenge for the way he was treated as a child, and how he pretty much stops at nothing to get his revenge on basically everyone around him. Heathcliff causes a great deal of grief in the lives of those around him. He made Catherine choose between him and Edgar, and although (in my opinion) she made the wrong choice; it was still a choice she had to make. He also causes stress in the lives of others, his children, and his own wife. In the beginning of the novel he didn't really have much and he followed the orders of others. But when he returns after the Edgar and Catherine are married it is as if he is the boss, and everyone else listens to what he says. It's kind of a rags to riches story, without the ending that you'd expect to happen. It's an evil rags to riches story, because Heathcliff on many occasions is far from pleasant.
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So when I first read this one I instinctively said Catherine. I thought it was obvious and I wondered why you even suggested Heathcliff. Now, however, I am having a really tough time deciding. Catherine is the major character because she is responsible for the love triangle. But then again, the story centers around the love circle and how Heathcliff is determined to seek revenge for his broken heart.
If I had to pick one now, I guess I'd have to pick Heathcliff. He lives longer and his selfish attempts at revenge affect the younger generation whereas Catherine's influence mostly dies along with her. Heathcliff not only creates misery in Catherine's life, but also in her daughter's life. His selfish tendencies also greatly influence Linton and Hareton. I keep mentioning the bad influence he had on the children, but really I think that they learned from his awful behaviors the importance of living good lives. You can see evidence of that when the Catherine and Hareton move into TG at the end of the novel, leaving WH in their past.
Touche! Emiliy's response about Catherine is real good. I never thought about it that way, because being the cause of the love triangle does cause a great deal of the conflict in the novel. However, I would definitely have to say that Heathcliff is the main character. It is a story about how he had nothing, and ended up having everything. (Okay, well not everything, because he never really had Catherine) But Heathcliff did have a great deal of things. The story is about how he goes about getting his revenge for the way he was treated as a child, and how he pretty much stops at nothing to get his revenge on basically everyone around him. Heathcliff causes a great deal of grief in the lives of those around him. He made Catherine choose between him and Edgar, and although (in my opinion) she made the wrong choice; it was still a choice she had to make. He also causes stress in the lives of others, his children, and his own wife. In the beginning of the novel he didn't really have much and he followed the orders of others. But when he returns after the Edgar and Catherine are married it is as if he is the boss, and everyone else listens to what he says. It's kind of a rags to riches story, without the ending that you'd expect to happen. It's an evil rags to riches story, because Heathcliff on many occasions is far from pleasant.
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