Heathcliff

I think those Brontes did some really great tortured heroes - Heathcliff is another one.

NZ/Aus Authors: Anna Campbell - Captive of Sin Nalini Singh 2009

Now, Emily Bronte would probably say Heathcliff is not redeemable.

slayground: Interview: Cara Lockwood Little Willow 2006

Heathcliff is a filthy, dark child mysteriously born (e) out of the elder Earnshaw's travelling cloak.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Heathcliff is an alien force who inspires uncontrollable intensities of love and hatred in the members of the family, and the bonds he forms with Catherine are, according to both of them, radically incommensurable with those that bind together the kinship structure of Thrushcross Grange.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Edward replies in Heathcliff’s words: I cannot live without my life!

Twilight Lexicon » Chapter Twenty-Seven – Needs 2007

I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow.

Wuthering Heights 1847

I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow.

Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833

Indeed, had this ballet been titled Heathcliff instead of Wuthering Heights that might have been closer to the mark, since the references to the Heights are all but excised from the story, and what is given focus and pre-eminence is the passionate and doomed affair between Cathy and Heathcliff, the everything and nothing of their bodies.

BrontëBlog 2009

Searching the Google scan for "Heathcliff", I find what sounds to a modern ear like high praise.

The state of the Brontes, circa 1877 2010

In the case of photographers such as Heathcliff O'Malley, who spent many months in Iraq during the war, they have gone to considerable trouble and personal risk in building up their libraries of material.

Give me money, that's what I want Richard 2006