Who Is Heathcliff? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Heathcliff is a In the Public Domain comic book character, with over 12 comic issue appearances. The tortured romantic hero in Wuthering Heights.

Who is Heathcliff?

Origin Heathcliff is better known as a romantic hero, due to his love for Catherine Earnshaw , than for his final years of vengeance in the second half of the novel, in which he grows into a bitter, haunted man, and for a number of incidents in his early life that suggest that he was an angry and sometimes malicious individual from the beginning. His complicated, mesmerising and altogether bizarre nature makes him a rare character, with components of both the hero and villain. Creation Heathcliff was created by Emily Brontë for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Character Evolution Hes has stayed the same for most of his adaptations except some change the ending of his fate. Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is a fostered gypsy who loves Catherine, but she wants what she thinks is best for her future, but not for her heart and soul. A dark-skinned gypsy foundling discovered on the streets of Liverpool and raised by the Earnshaw family of Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire, Heathcliff's past and early childhood before his mysterious adoption are not explored by Brontë. In keeping with the supernatural themes present in the novel, it is speculated that Heathcliff might be a demon or a hellish .

Key facts

Heathcliff is of human origin and first appeared in "Wuthering Heights". The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 12 recorded issue appearances, Heathcliff ranks among the most featured characters in comics.