Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is the story of an adoption that goes dreadfully incorrect. Heathcliff, one of the central characters in the novel, is made to feel rejection from the first moment he is brought to the family.

When he arrives to Wuthering Heights, is seen as an alien figure inside the family and is said to interfere with the affections of the Earnshaws. He also suffers from Hindley´s abuses and is betrayed by Catherine in favour of social status. She opts for marrying Edgar.

Because of that wrongs done to him in his childhood, he sets himself to ruin Hindley, Edgar, and their families. He blames both of them of having caused his loss of Catherine.

However, he defeats his plan of revenge when he sees Catherine Earnshaw in the figure of Hareton and Cathy. They both remind him more of Catherine than of their parents.

HEATHCLIFF´S ADOPTION : THE REJECTION OF THE NEW MEMBER

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is in essence a novel of adoption. However, this adoption instead of bringing happiness to the family, as most adoptions do in real life, goe

You teach me now how cruel you’ve been – cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort – you deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears. They’ll blight you – they’ll damn you. You loved me – for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart – you have broken it – and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you – oh God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? (160)

… my mother had nursed Mr. Hindley Earnshaw…and I got used to playing with the children – I ran errands too”; “he turned to Hindley, and Cathy, and me- for I sat eating my porridge with them; He did not forget me… He promised to bring me a pocketful of apples and pears… (36)

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