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Wuthering Heights — Ch. VII

Chapter VII

Wuthering Heights

He had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority, instilled into him by the favours of old Mr. Earnshaw, was faded away.

Emily Brontë, 1847

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Why does Heathcliff treat everyone so cruelly?

Brontë frames cruelty as the child of abandonment: Heathcliff has learned that the world gives nothing freely, and so he takes. His early degradation at Hindley’s hands didn’t just wound his pride; it taught him that love is a currency, and those who lack power are always in debt.

What if old Mr Earnshaw had lived ten years longer?

What might have been…The old master lived, and Hindley’s spite found no purchase while that grey head kept its place by the fire. Heathcliff held to his books and his Latin; and when Catherine came in from the moor, it was a scholar who rose to meet her, brown from the fields but unbowed.

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