Can Heathcliff be simply regarded as a stereotypical villain?

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Can Heathcliff be simply regarded as a stereotypical villain?

What is a stereotypical villain? Well for me a stereotypical villain is normally a man who is bad mannered and generally evil to his surrounding people. You hardly ever see a female villain because women are seen in the stereotypical eye as being weak and mild and they always need men to save them. For instance in a child’s story book a damsel in distress would be saved by a knight in shining armour after being captured by some evil villain. But it’s not just in children’s storybooks; no it’s also in everyday television soaps. For example in a soap called Eastenders there is a particularly nasty man called Nick Cotton who has done some terrible things to the people around him. What makes a stereotypical villain? Well most of them wear black clothes, have some sort of scar on their face or stubble to make them look rough or they have an unclear or suspicious background. They are also outcasts of society or have some kind of deformity.

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Villains made be unpleasant characters but they are what help to make any story or script play interesting. Without them the story would be dull and almost factual which is bad as they are supposed to be STORIES.  In Emily Bronte’s well-known book ‘Wutherings Heights’ there is a character called Heathcliff whose history is described as a ‘cuckoo’s’, which is reference to a homeless person. This is true as Mr Earnshaw was away on a trip when he found him and decided to bring him home. From the very beginning he was not accepted by anyone apart from Catherine and ...

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