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gh he does not love her at all. He does so only for the Linton property and the revenge on Edgar. But after her marriage to him, she receives no love or pity from him, but indifference and distain. The desperately unhappy Isabella sends a letter to Nelly saying “Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?”[22] Emily Bront? uses Isabella’s letter to let us know about the state of affairs at Wuthering Heights and about Heathcliff’s abusive treatment of Isabella. When she defends her brother, Heathcliff retorts that she looks like a slut. He hints that she is losing her mind and says he will not let her outside the house for fear she would disgrace him. He has become more and more imperious to her. “You’re not fit to be your own guardian, Isabella, now; and I, being your legal protector, must retain you in my custody, however, distasteful the obligation may be. Go upstairs, I have something to say to Ellen Dean in private. That’s not the way: upstairs, I tell you! Why, this is the road upstairs, child!”[23] He reveals how he has humiliated her and that she ran off with him even after he hanged her little dog. He declares Isabella will never leave him, even if he were to set her free. Isabella denies this and says Heathcliff would never allow her to leave. Her only wish is to see him die. Heathcliff says she is raving and pushes her out of the room. After Catherine’s death, in Heathcliff’s presence, Isabella reminded Hindley that Heathcliff was responsible for all their miseries, and that but for him, Catherine would still be alive. As she spoke slightly of Catherine, Heathcliff threw a dinner knife at her, which leaves a wound under her ear. She would no longer take him as a human being. Heathcliff succeeds in the major part of his plan for vengeance: he is in possession of the Heights and Hareton, formerly belonging to his enemy, Hindley. Once again playing on the weakness of his enemy, Heathcliff appeals to the pity and sensitivity he senses in Cathy, Catherine’s daughter, and wrings her heart about Linton’s deteriorating condition. He stoops to anything to get what he wants. Making use of Cathy’s loyalty to her weakling cousin Linton, Heathcliff’s son, he baits the trap for her marrying to his son so as to master the property of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff is a real monster. He disowns his son and tortures him in defiance of his poor health. To have Cathy married to Linton as quickly as possible, he always find all sorts of excuses to leave the house leaving the young couple stay alone so s to create more time to live together. Eventually, Cathy gets doubted about the meetings while Linton insists not telling her the reason. When Cathy decides to leave, Linton stops her and begs her to save him. “But leave me, and I shall be killed.”[24] He hints she can do this by consenting to something, what, he will not reveal. He dares not because he dreads his father. The villainy of Heathcliff, culminating in the illegal act of kidnapping Cathy and Nelly, would be sheer melodrama, if it were not for the genius of Emily Bront? in creating wholly consistent characters. We believe Heathcliff would act in this manner. He has reached a point of crisis. Even when Edgar is dying, Heathcliff refuses to let Cathy go back home to see him for the last time. To get his property, he bribes the lawyer and succeeds putting the property into his own picket.3.1.1.3 Feminized Female Gothic heroAlthough the hero Heathcliff is depicted t