What Do You Think Of Heathcliff From Wuthering Hieghts?

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I am currently reading the book Wuthering Hieghts and when I first started I thought it was going to be this romantic love story and I thought I would love the character of Heathcliff. At first I did like him a lot but then as I got deeper into it I began to dislike him immensely. He is such a heartless physco! Ok, so, Catherine Earnshaw is to blame some. I mean, the guy loved her and they were extremely close. She even knew she loved him. Yet, she married another man and all because she said that she was trying to help Heathcliff have a better life, whaaaa? So, because of this Heathcliff flips out and marries the man's sister, gets her pregnant and one day in a fight, he literlly kicks her when she is pregnant. Not to mention the fact that he only married her because he wants everything her brother owns to be his. He also takes in Catherine's nephew and because Catherine's brother treated him like crap, he makes the boy work as a pauper in the fields and hence treats him like crap. THEN, after his estranged wife leaves him and then dies, he takes in his estranged son (by no fault but his own of course), who he treats him like crap and then uses him to pretty much kidnap Catherine Earnshaw's daughter (Catherine is now dead of course) and forces the two to marry. This is where I am at now in the story. The maid who has raised Catherine's daughter, as well as Catherine and Heathcliff mind you (who is the narrator of the story), is locked in a room because he also kidnapped her pfff, and she doesn't know where the girl is and what's happening to her. All she knows is that she was forced to marry Heathcliff's son and she hasn't seen her since, THAT'S IT! So, with all this being said, I think Heathcliff is a horrible, self center, sadistic excuse for a man. This character has me so aggravted that I can't wait for his downfall and if it doesn't come, I will hate the book too LOL...For those of you who have read the book, what is your opinion on the character of Heathcliff?