Due to Heathcliff and Catherine's love relationship,
            
             Wuthering Heights is considered a romantic novel
            
            
             Throughout Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff's personality can be defined as dark,
            
             menacing, and brooding. He is a dangerous character, with rapidly changing moods,
            
             capable of hatred, and incapable, it seems, of any kind of forgiveness or compromise.
            
             Heathcliff's life is marked by wickedness, love, and strength. His dark actions are
            
             produced by the distortion of his natural personality. The depiction of him at Wuthering
            
             Heights is described as a "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (45). Already he was exposed
            
             to hardship and uncomplainingly accepted suffering. He displays his strength and
            
             steadfastness when Hindley treats him cruelly. Not only does he show his strength
            
             through Hindley, but also by following his personal goal of a life with Catherine. From the
            
             very beginning he showed great courage, resoluteness, and love. Few have the capability
            
             to be victimized and find secret delight in his persecutor sinking into a life of intemperance
            
             which will undoubtedly cause his own death.
            
             Heathcliff's hatred erupts when Catherine marries Edgar. She betrays him and now
            
             he wants revenge on Edgar and Hindley. His wickedness is entirely inappropriate and
            
             unusual. Without a question he is brutal and the universal darkness in Heathcliff must not
            
             be excused. The vicious manner in which he helps to destroy Hindley, kidnaps Cathy and
            
             Nelly, and brutalizes Isabella and Hareton, suggests that he is disturbed. Heathcliff's dark
            
             instincts are evident because of his passion and undying love for Cathy. He vanishes for
            
             three years to win Cathy over with his successes and choses to fight a battle that most
            
             would never attempt to begin. When Heathcliff returns a wealthy gentleman, suddenly
            
             able to rival Edgar's wealth, Catherine does not react like a wif...