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Check out this video to find out why Wuthering Heights should never be considered #relationshipgoals.

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Wuthering Heights a la Shmoop. Hope you're not afraid of heights. Wuthering...

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or otherwise. When people don't get what they want . . .

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. . . they don't always react in a positive manner.

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But some people take disappointment to a whole other level.

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Take Heathcliff . . . . . . a broody kind of guy who isn't exactly

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a model for gracious losers. He makes life difficult for pretty much everybody

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he encounters. He ruins Hindley <<HINNED-lee>>. . .

00:36

. . . humiliates Isabella . . . . . . abuses Hareton <<HARE-tuhn>> . . .

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and even torments the love of his life. Nice guy, huh?

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So what exactly was behind all that need for vengeance?

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Well, Heathcliff's "adopted" brother Hindley sure got the ball rolling.

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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

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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

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pushing Heathcliff's buttons. Edgar had stolen his girl . . .

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. . . so marrying Edgar's sister must have sounded like pretty sweet revenge . . .

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. . . even if Heathcliff couldn't stand the poor woman.

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Then, of course, there was the love of his life -- Catherine.

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After her betrayal, there was no way he was letting her off the hook.

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Soul mate or not, she had married a bore like Edgar . . .

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. . . and Heathcliff never stopped reminding her that she had ruined both their lives doing

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so. So, who really was behind the brunt of all

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that anger? Maybe he just wanted to make everyone who

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had ever hurt him suffer . . . . . . maybe he was just trying to get his

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hands on Wuthering Heights . . . . . . or maybe he was just a miserable human

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being who liked making everyone else miserable, too.

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You know, the kind of guy who isn't happy unless everyone else is unhappy too.

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What's your call? Shmoop amongst yourselves.

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