Wuthering Heights 3

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what they refer to as a “beggar child” or more often a thing rather than a child. She was ready to fling it out of doors, while Nelly put it on the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider, following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, and suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. He immediately falls in love with their daughter Catherine and is found playing with her in the fields all of the time. However, he is deprived of love, sociability and education. He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to become a farm hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. For Heathcliff, the problem with the family is the son, Hindley. Hindley asserts himself as a selfish brat who is constantly hooked on the idea that he will be the sole heir to the Earnshaw estate. To him Heathcliff is a threat ...

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