Wuthering Heights, a gothic romance by Emily Bronte, tells the gruesome story of a Byronic hero trying to win his true love over. Heathcliff's love for Catherine Earnshaw comes from the bottom of his heart since his very introduction to her as a child, but social standards will not allow their romance to flourish. This separation causes loves' unbearable force to drive Heathcliff insane. This becomes evident through his purpose for his revenge, his obsession …
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…The insane mind reasons as such with love and revenge plotting against one's own son. Heathcliff's love for Catherine controlled not only his life, but his actions and his whole being. Unchecked and unanswered, his love turned melancholy, morose and inevitably insane. Pushed to the end with obsessive love and insane actions, Heathcliff's revenge takes the form of a Byronic hero and finally finds an ironic peace, not of the flesh but of the spirit.