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Check out this video to find out why Wuthering Heights should never be considered #relationshipgoals.
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- 00:07
Wuthering Heights a la Shmoop. Hope you're not afraid of heights. Wuthering...
- 00:11
or otherwise. When people don't get what they want . . .
- 00:15
. . . they don't always react in a positive manner.
- 00:19
But some people take disappointment to a whole other level.
- 00:24
Take Heathcliff . . . . . . a broody kind of guy who isn't exactly
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- 00:28
a model for gracious losers. He makes life difficult for pretty much everybody
- 00:33
he encounters. He ruins Hindley <<HINNED-lee>>. . .
- 00:36
. . . humiliates Isabella . . . . . . abuses Hareton <<HARE-tuhn>> . . .
- 00:40
and even torments the love of his life. Nice guy, huh?
- 00:46
So what exactly was behind all that need for vengeance?
- 00:50
Well, Heathcliff's "adopted" brother Hindley sure got the ball rolling.
- 00:55
He hated poor, orphaned Heathcliff from day one . . .
- 00:58
. . . and wasn't shy about showing it. Is it any wonder Heathcliff couldn't wait
- 01:04
to issue a little payback . . . . . . especially when his plan included that
- 01:07
extra bonus of inheriting Wuthering Heights? But Hindley certainly wasn't the only one
- 01:13
pushing Heathcliff's buttons. Edgar had stolen his girl . . .
- 01:19
. . . so marrying Edgar's sister must have sounded like pretty sweet revenge . . .
- 01:22
. . . even if Heathcliff couldn't stand the poor woman.
- 01:27
Then, of course, there was the love of his life -- Catherine.
- 01:32
After her betrayal, there was no way he was letting her off the hook.
- 01:36
Soul mate or not, she had married a bore like Edgar . . .
- 01:39
. . . and Heathcliff never stopped reminding her that she had ruined both their lives doing
- 01:44
so. So, who really was behind the brunt of all
- 01:47
that anger? Maybe he just wanted to make everyone who
- 01:51
had ever hurt him suffer . . . . . . maybe he was just trying to get his
- 01:55
hands on Wuthering Heights . . . . . . or maybe he was just a miserable human
- 02:00
being who liked making everyone else miserable, too.
- 02:02
You know, the kind of guy who isn't happy unless everyone else is unhappy too.
- 02:09
What's your call? Shmoop amongst yourselves.
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