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A few years later, a handsome, dignified demeanor guest visited Linton’s home. The man is Heathcliff, who disappeared for years and eventually made a fortune back home. The only purpose of his trip to return home was to take revenge on the guys who persecuted him and took his sweetheart.
Hindley is a debauched rich kid, day and night, excessive drinking, haunted casino, leaving the old industrial Earnshaw squandered. When he saw Heathcliff was back with great fortune, unexpectedly, he asked Heathcliff to stay in the Villa, pledged the rest of the family property to him and become his servant.
Heathcliff got acquainted with the Thrush Grange. Isabella, Linton's sister, who regarded him as a legendary hero and eloped with him. He tortured her in order to vent the grievance deep in his heart in Wuthering Heights.
After marrying to Linton, Catherine recognized the hypocrisy of her husband. She was very remorseful then. Heathcliff was back, but she was thrown into the abyss of grief and shame to pay. She fell ill and soon died in desperation, leaving a seven-months-old baby girl – Katie [2].
Taking of the occasion of the death of Catherine, Isabella fled to the outskirts of London, and soon gave birth to a boy, named Linton Heathcliff. In less than six months after the death of Catherine Hindley, her children Hareton fall into Healthcliff’s palm. 12 years later, when Catherine had died a long time, Heathcliff went back to her child. He laughed crazily to his uncle, like a gentle demeanor, but selfish, Heathcliff disgusted him deeply.
Time flies, and Katie grown up. At her 16th birthday, she did not know she encountered her uncle, Heathcliff, accidentally. When Heathcliff knew that the girl was the daughter of Catherine and his enemy Linton, love and hate writhed in his mind and revenge weaved into a new pattern: let her marry to his son in order to justifiably occupy Linton’s property. Before Linton died Heathcliff forced Cathy hastily married to his son. A few days later, Linton died, and Heathcliff became the master of the Thrush Grange. Young Heathcliff passed away soon after the marriage, so Katie was being immersed in grief.
At that time, Hareton was already 23 years old. He looked like young Heathcliff. Despite of being deprived of the right to education and the lack of human warmth, he was honest and loyal. He had a love for Katie. Heathcliff hoped that they would hate each other, but they actually loved each other. Finally, he determined to break up the couple. However, when he carefully looked at them, the scene of his former love was coming into his mind. At that moment, hate faded away from his mind and love prevailed. Consequently, he could not bear more to retaliate [3]. He was going to find Catherine. In a blizzard night, emptiness was full with his heart and after suffering a bitter resentment, he was laughing, leaving the earth.
II. Analysis of the themes in Wuthering Heights
2.1 Social Background
Although we can basically put the background of this novel above the stage throughout human history, there are after all still a number of implicit social relationships between people in a particular age; in the novel, some details specifically related to the implementation of some laws which decided the fate of the two characters, and this point in the specific implementation of Healthcliff’s revenge plan is very significant, as the following brief analysis.
The story takes place in the second half of the eighteenth century in a remote British countryside (who was born 1757 - 1803 Hindley Hareton and Cathy married) about decades before Emily Bronte was born. In the eighteenth century, the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution widely expanded, however, in her fiction, Villa did not get the reaction remaining essentially in a state of before revolution. The two families are hereditary aristocracy country for many years, relying on leased land revenue. In the novel, to show the relationships between the characters, such as the old Linton and a white maid’s relationship, in order to describe the unrestricted relationship between an aristocrat and peasant:" He fell like an outer! Much like a robber put them through the window, and good everyone was asleep, came to the door stood a bunch of good from leisurely to kill us [4]. Shut up, you foul-mouthed thief you! You have to go to the gallows, Mr. Linton; you do not take the gun up first. "