Hitler's Character Ketch

Hindley's despicable personality and violent disposition have been made abundantly clear throughout the Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights. Even early on, his evil tendencies are apparent..."Take my colt, gypsy, then!... I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and be damned, you beggarly interloper!" (Bronte 47). His hatred for Heathcliff is building to a point where the reader is forced to feel the looming ominous feeling. Throughout the period of his father's failing health, Nellie explains "...it became in a manner necessary: twice, or thrice, Hindley's manifestation of scorn, while his father was near, roused the old man [Mr. Earnshaw] to a fury: he seized his stick to strike him [Hindley], and shook with rage that he could not do it" (49). It is made clear, Mr. Earnshaw cares for Heathcliff more than he does his own son...showing just how much Hindley's loathsome behavior is, having chased away even his own father. When Catherine returns from Thrushcross Grange, Hindley lifts her off the horse and tells Heathcliff to, "come and wish Catherine welcome, like the other servants" (65). At this point, Hindley has likened Heathcliff to a servant. It seems as if Hindley's goal is to make Heathcliff feel as unwanted as humanly possible. Making especially sure, that he does not consider himself part of the family. Later on Nellie says of Hindley, "He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long..." (79). Our awareness of Hindley's indifferent nature toward those around him is constantly increasing. "He [Hindley], had reached the age of sixteen then, I think, and without having bad features, or being deficient in intellect, he contrived to convey an impression of inward and outward repulsiveness that his present aspect retains no traces of" (82).