Wanted hero

    Last week, in english class, we finished reading Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. 

   An awesome book, i can say. The teacher asked us individualy which character we liked most. Everybody said the book was boring and didnt liked any person. Some said Mr. Lockwood, the one that listens to Nelly telling the story, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange.

   Until it was my turn to tell which character i liked the most, i was thinking about words to describe how much i liked my favourite character.

  "Heathcliff", was my response. The teacher's face brightened with a smile, maybe happy that somebody finaly likes the novel. She asked me why. 

   I like Heathcliff because he has a strong willpower of being himself, of revenging, of loving, the only person that loved and betraied him. And that person is, Catherine. Exactly, Catherine!

   He grew huge affection for her, from little boy, after Hindley returned at Wuthering Heights with a wife and degraded him, he was put to work hard labor, though he could have said "no, i won't let myself be degraded" and leave for a better paid job, but in the book it's not writen that he objeted to all this, because we all know that the only thing, that kept him back, was the love for Catherine. 

   How lovely, isn't it?

   It's much more lovely to know that he overheard her say how she loves him, but she can not marry him because it would degrade her too much.

   Everybody would be hurt, hearing something like this from the person they admire, respect a lot.

   He did well, disappearing for 3 years.

   Just like Nelly, i am wondering where he had been, from where he managed to get that much money? Perhaps he married a wealthy old woman? Was the servant of a wealthy old man, who managed to pounder into him the etiquetee of proper manner? Or maybe he gone in the army! After all he's described as manly and build up body.

   Ugh! I wish, i was Catherine, and would listen what my heart say: to be with Heathcliff and have a passionate life full of love, and somehow in good and in bad we would still be together. But then the story would END! O_O

   That's not good, either.

   It also can be seen the author of the book, liked Heathcliff very much and made him the hero. The story starts with him as a baby and ends with his death.

Resuming: I just LOVE the way Heathcliff is, mad with love and revenge for everybody because his love died. I would love such a guy as my husband, but then, i don't want to be a wife and all this is just fantasy.