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{{quote| ''How can I live without my heart? How can I live without my soul?''}}
The only novel written by [[
It is 1801. The foppish gentleman Mr. Lockwood has moved to Thrushcross Grange, a manor house in the windswept and desolate Yorkshire Moors, where he introduces himself to Heathcliff, his surly, ill-mannered and unwelcoming landlord and master of the nearby Wuthering Heights. Forced to stay at Wuthering Heights overnight, Lockwood suffers a nightmare about the ghost of a young woman desperately pleading to be let back into the house; intrigued, Lockwood asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to [[Framing Device|tell him the story of Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights]].
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** Heathcliff tries to do this to Hareton but fails.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: {{spoiler|The first Catherine's daughter}}.
* [[Death
** Averted with Hindley's wife. The childbirth goes fine, but some time later she dies of a coughing fit. Hindley's wife was in denial about having a "[[Victorian Novel Disease|consumption]]". Nelly noticed that even as a new bride, Frances was easily winded and "[[Incurable Cough of Death|coughed troublesomely sometimes]]".
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: And the depressing reality is that Heathcliff's appalling treatment of his wife is, as he points out, perfectly within the tolerant limits of the law.
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* [[The Masochism Tango]]: And HOW.
* [[The Meadow Run]]: From the movie, at any rate.
* [[Moses in
* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: Invoked by both Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton; Heathcliff ignores them both.
* [[Mysterious Past]]: For all of Heathcliff's life that we do know, he's still made of this trope. We don't know anything about his early years, to age seven or so, or why he couldn't speak English when he first came to the Heights or what his name might have been before that time. The mystery only deepens in the three years he spends away from the Heights and somehow has made himself so rich in that time that he's bought the house from under Hindley's nose.
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* [[Parental Substitute]]: Nelly for Hareton and Catherine (II). Later, [[Abusive Parents|Heathcliff for Hareton.]]
* [[Pyrrhic Villainy]]: {{spoiler|After Heathcliff's rivals have all died and he's ruined his and their children's lives, he finds he has no satisfaction.}}
* [[Pick
* [[The Rashomon]]: The unreliable Nelly Dean tells most of the story to the equally unreliable (not to mention thick-skulled) Lockwood.
* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Mr. Lockwood refuses to be Cathy's [[Knight in Shining Armor]], rescue the [[Distressed Damsel]], and live [[Happily Ever After]] with her.
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* [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]: Hindley and his aristocratic compatriots treat young Heathcliff like scum and a monster. Guess what he grows up to become?
* [[Self-Made Man]]: Heathcliff. And we never find out how.
* [[Shipper
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Catherine (II) and Hareton
** Catherine (I) physically slapped Edgar. He proposes soon after. May not be a true example as Catherine was in love with someone else.
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Heathcliff for Edgar Linton
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Played with. Heathcliff's nature is largely blamed on Hindley's bullying, Edgar's class prejudice, and Catherine's seeming rejection of him. However looking back to Nelly's earliest accounts of him, there isn't anything the reader can point to and say he [[Used to Be
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Heathcliff brags to Nelly about how successfully he's done this to Hareton.
* [[Sugar and Ice Guy]]: Mr. Lockwood. Not to any of the other characters, but he describes himself as a misanthropist, and notes that he has never been able to express his love verbally, and even drove away a woman he loved because of this.
* [[Surrounded
* [[Sympathy for
** for Catherine (I) as well, though more contempt and less pity in this case.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Heathcliff is a [[Deconstruction]], lacking the heart of gold and being "redeemed by the love of a good woman" typically associated with the character.
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