heathcliff and hindley

• quotes

  • ‘He would stand Hindley’s blows without winking or shedding a tear.’
  • ‘He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate.’
  • ‘Oh damnation! I will have it back; and I will have his gold too; and then his blood; and hell shall have his soul!’
  • ‘He exerted preter human self denial in abstaining from finishing him completely.’
• point

  • complex
  • fraught with tension and violence
  • rooted in jealousy
  • class struggle
  • deep seated emotions
  • hatred
• context

  • strict class divisions
  • racism and ostracism
• reader

  • abuse lead to greater conflict
  • class doesnt necessarily mean power
• explain

  • immediate dislike growing into hatred
  • uses Heathcliff‘s class against him and humiliates him
  • Heathcliff manipulates Hindley into addiction
• key words

  • emotional turmoil
  • malice
  • vengeful
  • downward spiral
  • despair and pain
  • ruthless tactics
  • otherness
  • social inferior