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o be a typical devilish character in Gothic novel, he is not the same as those in traditional ones. His nature is softened by his endless love to Catherine and his giving in at last.Heathcliff comes back to avenge himself on Hindley and then kills himself after three years disappearance. However, having seen her again, he knows he can do nothing to hurt Catherine and is abandoning his vow of revenge. Encounts Catherine he becomes full of tenderness. In particular on the spot of Catherine’s deathbed, though still a monster-like man, his affection to Catherine is engraved on his bones and heart.“On my approaching hurriedly to ascertain if she had fainted, he gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog, and gathered her to him with greedy jealousy. I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appears that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity.”[25] Here Emily uses the rhetoric of hyperbole to describe the soul-stirring scene, displaying the crazy, brutal, mysterious, and terrifying love between the hero and heroine.At the end of the story, on the surface it would appear that the old tragedy might be reenacted by the young people of the second generation at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. However, while Cathy, Linton, and Hareton show some of the characteristics of their parents, these traits have been modified, and there is hope for a happier solution to the problems presented. Emily has ingeniously designed Hareton, another Heathcliff, whose life is much luckier than Heathcliff; and the same relationship that existed between Heathcliff, Catherine, and Edgar is being repeated between Hareton, Cathy, and Linton. However, the new generation receives a much better ending, and to some extent, a happy one.Heathcliff is a feminized Female Gothic hero who deserves our sympathy. He has a gloomy childhood, spends most of his life in the dark of revenge, and thus never leads a relaxed life, especially after Catherine’s death. He has been obsessed by the feelings of Catherine’s presence night and day. He feels haunted and thaws himself. His revenge has turned to ashes. After his death, there are changes at Wuthering Heights. The gate is open and flowers fill the yard. The sun is setting and the moon rising symbols of a new regime. The flowers that Cathy and Hareton plant after uprooting Joseph’s blackcurrant bushes are blooming. The old order of vengeance and retribution as represented by Heathcliff and old Joseph, has passed and has been replaced by the spirit of love. All these are the bright sides of this novel and evidently embody Emily’s making use of Female Gothic.3.1.2 Catherine Earnshaw’s split personalityAnother key character in Wuthering Heights is the heroine, Catherine Earnshaw. The free spirit of Emily Bront? is epitomized in Catherine, who, as a child, could ride any horse in the stable, and in later years rides roughshod over everyone who tries to stand in her way. Beautiful, wild, arrogant, and willf l, Catherine is a fitting companion for the arrogant and vindictive Heathcliff. Her love for him and the moors is the ruling passion of her life. While she may appear heartless when she chooses to marry Edgar Linton, she is na?ve enough to think that by so doing she will be able to lift him from the degradation into which he has been thrust by Hindley.There is one occasion showing Catherine’s wildness. When Nelly refuses to leave her