After Catherine's marriage to Edgar, it becomes Edgar's job to try to keep Heathcliff and Catherine apart. To get revenge against Edgar for taking Catherine from him, Heathcliff marries Edgar's sister, Isabella, and treats her badly.
Heathcliff hates Isabella but, motivated by money, he manipulates her into an elopement.
Heathcliff's abuse of the innocent, Isabella, who only wants to love him, indicates that he has no boundaries when it comes to satisfying his desire for revenge.
Heathcliff Hangs a Dog
Heathcliff has a plan to marry a woman named Isabella. He doesn't actually care for her; he's just trying to get to her brother so he can steal back his true love and get his revenge.
Why does Heathcliff swear to punish Isabella in the place of Edgar at the close of Chapter XIII? Heathcliff swears to punish Isabella in the place of Edgar because he believes that Edgar caused Catherine's sickness.
Heathcliff Brags About His Cruelty
Unfortunately, Heathcliff's kindness to animals does not last long. Later in the book, he hangs his wife's (Isabella's) dog. Instead of showing an ounce of remorse, he brags about it during an argument with her.
After working his way back into Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff aims for Thrushcross Grange, directing the second part of his revenge towards Edgar by encouraging Isabella's infatuation. Heathcliff has no passion, love, or desire for Isabella; he only wants to use her.
Most of Isabella 's abuse was done threw the element of fear, “He snatched an dinner knife from the table, and flung it at my head” (Bronte 174) during this part of Isabella's life she is “happily” married to Heathcliff, but Heathcliff is only married to Isabella for her wealth and that 's why he abuses her constantly.
Isabella flees Wuthering Heights after Heathcliff's grief combined with Isabella and Hindley's taunting results in violence. Isabella and Heathcliff each throw a knife at each other. Hindley physically assaults Heathcliff to hold him back.
After informing Nelly of how she pursued her escape, and paying one last visit to Thrushcross Grange, her childhood home, Isabella removes somewhere "south of London", where she gives birth to Heathcliff's son, Linton, who resembles Isabella in every aspect.
She only fell in love and married Heathcliff because she was charmed by his looks and unaware of his true nature. She ends up being abused by her husband and servants, and looked down by her brother.
The story is peppered with violence; men, women, children, and even dogs alike suffer abuse. As a boy, Heathcliff is bullied because of his class and race, which only harden him so that by adulthood, Heathcliff's character is stripped of all feeling to the extent where he doesn't even resemble 'a human being'.
It's true that having been raised as siblings, Heathcliff and Cathy's infatuation is laced with a queasy tug of incest. But even without that, their relationship can easily be read as obsessive, destructive, co-dependent – in a word, toxic. Maybe it's best not to think of Wuthering Heights as a romance at all.
Secondly, there is no actual evidence in the book that the two of them ever had sex. Heathcliff ran away when he was sixteen and Catherine fifteen. It seems unlikely that they would have slept together before then.
He says that he can forgive her for the pain she has caused him, but that he can never forgive her for the pain that she has caused herself—he adds that she has killed herself through her behavior, and that he could never forgive her murderer.
Answer and Explanation: Catherine starves herself in Wuthering Heights so that she does not have to give Heathcliff and Edgar, the two men in a love triangle with her, an answer about which one she chooses to be with.
In chapter 29 of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff tells Nelly Dean about how he dug up Catherine's body just after she was buried, back in chapter sixteen. Heathcliff went alone to the churchyard and, wild in grief for Catherine, dug down to her coffin and attempted to wrench it open.
Heathcliff tells Nelly that he persuaded the sexton to dig up Catherine's grave. He stares at her dusty corpse and bribes the sexton to put his body next to hers when he dies. He has no fear of disturbing the dead, he tells Nelly. Cathy has been haunting him for eighteen years.
After Catherine's death in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff begins a slow descent into madness. One after the other, everyone he once hated and sought revenge on has died, including Hindley, Edgar, Isabella, and Linton, the son he shared with Isabella.
For many years he has now lived in the village of Thornton, actually right across the road from the house in which the Brontë sisters were born, before their father, Patrick, took them to Haworth when he took up his job as minister of the village, living in the now-famous parsonage.
Heathcliff is a victim; he cannot take the road he came. Emily Brontë does not help him find his way. Emily Brontë portrays Heathcliff as a crime machine who is dragged along the very top Head of the Wuthering Heights down the Cliff. So, the ideal victim of Wuthering Heights is male.
Heathcliff, for example, continually desires contact with Catherine's ghost, even going so far as to plead with her to haunt him when she first dies. He also exhumes her grave so that he can look at her again, and he has part of her coffin removed so that he can truly be buried by her side when he dies.
Heathcliff's son by Isabella. Weak, sniveling, demanding, and constantly ill, Linton is raised in London by his mother and does not meet his father until he is thirteen years old, when he goes to live with him after his mother's death.
Heathcliff's love for Catherine enables him to endure Hindley's maltreatment after Mr. Earnshaw's death. But after overhearing Catherine admit that she could not marry him, Heathcliff leaves. Nothing is known of his life away from her, but he returns with money.
The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is used as a central plot element of Wuthering Heights. The two are madly in love early in the book, but as the story continues, miscommunication and the class structures of the day forced the two apart.