Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff

If it's not already obvious, I do not particularly care for Heathcliff. The guy got on my nerves like crazy. I pity him in the most minute way simply because his childhood really sucked and he couldn't really do anything about it. People treated him badly just because of were he came from and that is wrong. The way he dealt with it though made me want to hit him in the head with baseball bats. I mean this guy was straight up evil! He leaves Wuthering Heights randomly for a few years and everybody is actually generally pretty happy. Catherine and Edgar get along and Hindley is a crazy drunkard. That's it though. Just a crazy drunkard. Not a crazy drunkard in a looooot of debt and hungry for blood. That is what he becomes when Heathcliff, out of the blue. shows back up at Wuthering Heights to turn everything upside down with this diabolical plan of his to become the master of the Heights and the Grange. First he begins messing with Hindley and then moves to prey on Catherine. She was content before he came around and now her and Edgar on edge and Isabella, Edgar's sister, is a bit out of sorts, too. She begins to fall in love with Heathcliff, and Heathcliff uses her in as a pawn to get what he wants. He marries her. Heathcliff knows he is confusing everybody and stirring up trouble, yet he is content to keep liven this daily life. Then Catherine dies because of Heathcliff and Edgar, and he becomes even more driven to take over everything. The man is crazy! He doesn't know when enough is enough! After this little mishap things quite down a while. Then Isabella dies, who has fled away from Heathcliff with their son, Linton. Isabella wishes Linton to live with Edgar but Heathcliff is his father and immediately takes the poor child and ignores his mothers wishes. Soon he is using Linton as a pawn, too. He makes him try to charm Catherine Linton (Catherine Earnshaw's daughter) into marrying him, and we can infer that he is punished severely when he does not do a sufficient job. Soon Heathcliff just locks the two up until they'll marry. Who locks people up to get them to marry each other?! Jerks. That's who.