wants to get revenge on Edgar, as a way of getting over his insecurity but he realizes that it would make no difference. “But, Nelly, if I knocked him down twenty times, that wouldn’t make him less handsome, or me more so. I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed, and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!” (Bronte 97) Heathcliff can’t change what Edgar is. Heathcliff creates a carefully laid plan to implement revenge on anyone who did not allow him to be with Catherine and anyway that made him feel insecure about him. Heathcliff wants to revenge himself on Hindley and the Linton’s. He has two methods to his madness. One is by oppressing and exploiting their children. The other method is by expropriating their lands and possessions and seizing them himself. Heathcliff treats Hindley’s son Hareton like he was treated as a child. Hareton turns out the opposite of what Heathcliff intended though, “where Heathcliff meant to sow hatred, he has raised love.” (Trickett 91) Cathy and Hareton fixed the mistakes made by Catherine and Heathcliff. Heathcliff’s carefully laid plan (Holderness 31) rebounds on him. (Trickett 91) Heathcliff is the central problem of Wuthering Heights. He starts out trying to receive love and ends up creating love. He seems to change along the way throughout all of his internal and external conflicts....
