Chapters 10-14- Rodrigo

I found these chapters to be quite surprising given the way that Heathcliff comes back and how he treats all those around him who have caused him pain during some point of his life. Heathcliff, who was believed to be a very simple and fearfull character seeing as he was oppressed during the majority of his life, is transformed into a diabolical, demonically charismatic, powerful, and villainous man, capable of extreme cruelties. This was trully shocking but in a way expected seeing as the only thing which he knows is cruelty. Driven by his determination for revenge, by his love for Catherine, by his beliefs that he has betrayed him by marring Edgar, by his hatred of the Lintons for having treated him so poorly and making him seem unworthy of marrying Cathering, Heathcliff dedicates himself during these chapters to devising a plan to get revenge on all of the people who he felt were injust to him. Nelly suspects that Heathcliff has second intentions once he returns after a while and desperately needs to talk to Catherine and Isabella. His malice and evil nature can be seen through his treatment of Hindley and Isabella who later becomes his wife in an atempt to punish Edgar seeing as Heathcliff cannot get to Edgar directly or to Catherine he decides to use Isabella as a mediator for his anger and hatred. Even though he treats everybody extremely diminishingly, it is hard not to feel some sympathy for his character seeing as he had gone through all of this treatment during his childhood by the same people who he is now trying to make suffer. Ofcourse we cannot condone these actions but that does not mean that we are not allowed to sympathise with his character, for it is necessary to understand where he is coming from physically and mentally. At this point in the novel i find it difficult to see however where it is or at what point Bronte is trying to get too because all the characters keep constantly changing and the situations keep changing making it very difficult to know what to expect. For example with Catherine getting sick it is hard to know whether or not she will die because at the moment she plays a big role in the plot and in the development of Heathcliff's character and plan for revenge. If she dies, Bronte will have a lot of work to do in order to make Heathcliff justify his revenge and the misstreatment of all around him. If Catherine doesn't die then tere will be another 100 or so pages for the story to finally unfold. Either way I fail to see what it is that Bronte could possibly do in the last 100 or so pages, i know that finishing the story earlier isnt one of them unfortunantely. Besides focusing mainly on Heathcliff's character, these chapters also give some insight to the narrator, Nelly who is shown to always have very biased thoughts on Catherine saying that she is often spoiled, proud, arrogant, selfish etc. It is the first time during the novel where the reader is allowed to see how Nelly thinks and feels towards the other characters, because until now she was just telling the facts to Lockwood. All in all, these chapters were amusing to see how Heathcliff feels after all the time that he spent away to those who opressed him during his childhood, and to see how his hatred as accumulated to a point where he is likely to release all that anger, hatred, and jealousy very soon.