Wuthering Heights is a novel of both love and revenge. From beginning to end Bronte uses many different characters to portray the love throughout the story. The main character Heathcliff is used mostly. Heathcliff is rescued as an orphan by Mr. Earnshaw, a very wealthy father and husband. The Earnshaw family does not initially accept Heathcliff causing him to seek revenge for majority of his lifetime. Eventually, Heathcliff and the daughter of the Earnshaw family, Catherine, fall in love, but the Victorian Era social structure keeps them apart. Catherine has to marry for wealth, with another man, rather than for love, with Heathcliff. This angers Heathcliff so much that he goes away for a few years. When he comes back he is an entirely different person, though still not wealthy. Catherine hates the fact that they are not together and realizes this when he comes back home. Heathcliff soon marries Catherine’s sister-in-law as a part of his revenge. He makes her life as miserable as his without Catherine. Both Heathliff and Catherine have children within their marriages, but Catherine dies soon after her daughter, Cathy, is born, as well as Heathcliff’s wife when her son, Linton, is born. Later on in the children’s lives they grow quite fond of each other. They even establish a relationship. Heathcliff forces them to marry, but Linton dies soon after. In a way, he tried to give them the relationship that him and Catherine never got the chance to have. He never realized they weren’t happy that way and that Cathy’s true love was her first cousin, Hareton. Her uncle died an alcoholic and his son was left with Heathcliff as a servant to repay all the debts of his father’s gambling. Once Heathcliff was made aware of this hidden love, he again realized how miserable he was without Catherine. When he finally stopped seeking revenge on everyone, his life had ran its course and he died. At this point he was happy at last with Catherine, and so was Cathy when she got married soon after to Hareton, ending the book with love as it started.