>dude who was abused by his family
Heathcliff was an orphaned gypsy kid the father, Mr Earnshaw found in Liverpool and took in, to live with the Earnshaw family at Wuthering Heights. He was abused by Hindley, the son. His father scolded him for it and kind of seemed to like Heathcliff more. After Mr Earnshaw died, Hindley and Heathcliff fought a lot and Heathcliff left I'm pretty sure. He and Catherine were close though.
Then he came back years later after Catherine Earnshaw had married Edgar Linton. He started mixing up trouble again.
I like that whenever Heathcliff is out of the picture, everything is peaceful. Before he arrived, the Earnshaws were a happy family, after he left Catherine got married and everything was calm for those years before he returned, and after he died everything was good again.
Heathcliff is passion and chaos, Edgar Linton is calm and security. Wuthering Heights is out in the wilderness, Thrushcross Grange is in a neat civilised place.
I wrote my English essay on the contrasts in the book, like those two. I actually can't remember what else I wrote about though.
(I'm pretty sure what I said about the story is accurate)