Although the main heros of the novel loved each other greatly, the theme of revenge is the most powerful and influencing one throughout the events of the story. When the readers think of the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, they find it such a great one yet revenge is the thing that made the story is not just mere love but a great suffering and conflicts novel.Heathcliff's childhood is that poor hard and severe one that lead him to bear revenge feelings into his soul. When it was hard for him to live with the woman he loved and spent childhood with, he turned to take actions towards revenge. He determined to destroy Hindly, his adoptive brother who despised Heathcliff during childhood by all means.Becoming the master of the two houses is an image of taking revenge. Hindly's desires of gambling and drinking helped Heathcliff a lot in fact to achieve what he wanted and desired. Despite his success in becominh a master of the two houses, Heathcliff admitted at the end of the story that revenge lost its taste at last and that he wished something else of love and he wished the happy life with his beloved Catherine. Hareton appears at last to show the decent picture that emerged out of all evils to prove that revenge was vain and that there is still happiness in that story of strong love and bitter revenge.
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