Joseph was the only objector, and he appealed to Heathcliff against 'yon flaysome graceless quean, that's witched our lad wi' her bold een and her forrad ways.'

Butand this is what makes Emily Brontë's work stupendousnot for a moment can you judge Heathcliff by his bare deeds.

The frustrated passion of Catherine Earnshaw for Heathcliff, and of Heathcliff for Catherine, hardly knows itself from hate; they pay each other back torture for torture, and pang for hopeless pang.

"You'd better let the dog alone," growled Mr. Heathcliff in unison, as he checked her with a punch of his foot.

Others again, such as the parallel between the return of Heathcliff to Catherine and that of Jane to Rochester, will not bear examination for a moment.

Charlotte showed insight when she said in her preface to Wuthering Heights: "Heathcliff betrays one solitary human feeling, and that is not his love for Catherine; which is a sentiment fierce and inhuman ... the single link that connects Heathcliff with humanity is his rudely confessed regard for Hareton Earnshawthe young man whom he has ruined; and then his half-implied esteem for Nelly Dean."