ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Heathcliff is a fictional character in Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Owing to the novel’s enduring fame and popularity, he is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured antihero whose all-consuming rage, jealousy and anger destroy both him and those around him; in short, the Byronic hero.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heathcliff is the protagonist of Wuthering Heights. The action of the plot begins when he is brought into the Earnshaw household as a mysterious young child. His presence informs the events of the novel and affects the decisions of all the other characters.

Detailed explanation-3: -From a literary perspective, he is more the embodiment of the Byronic hero (attributed to the writer George Gordon, Lord Byron), a man of stormy emotions who shuns humanity because he himself has been ostracized; a rebellious hero who functions as a law unto himself. Heathcliff is both despicable and pitiable.

Detailed explanation-4: -As a romantic hero he is noble, brave and involved in a passionate love affair, he is also the main character. He is called a villain that means he is spiteful and only thinks about himself. Nobody, except Catherine and maybe Hareton like him.