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How far is it correct to sympathise with Heathcliff?We sympathise with Heathcliff We sympathise with Heathcliff not to admire him or to encourage him or defend him or agree with him, but to give him our inmost sympathy, to continue in an obscure Way to identify ourselves with him against the other characters.For what Heathcliff does is to use against his enemies with Complete ruthlessness their own weapons, to turn on them their own Standards, to beat themat their own game.

How far is it correct to sympathise with Heathcliff? We sympathise with Heathcliff We sympathise with Heathcliff not to admire him or to encourage him or defend him or agree with him, but to give him our inmost sympathy, to continue in an obscure Way to identify ourselves with him against the other characters. For what Heathcliff does is to use against his enemies with Complete ruthlessness their own weapons, to turn on them their own Standards, to beat themat their own game. He uses money and arranged marriages. Heathcliff retains our sympathy because instinctively We recognize a rough moral justice in what he has done to his oppressors and because, though he is inhuman, We understand why he is inhuman.-obviously we do not approve of what he does, but we understand it i the deep and complex issues behind his actions are revealed to us. We recognize the very forces which drove him to rebelling for a higher freedom have themselves entrapped him in their own values and determined the nature of his revenge