Wuthering+Heights+-+Character+Profile+Hareton

=Hareton Earnshaw= = Loyal to Heathcliff = “- And the best of it is, Hareton is damnably fond of me!.. if the dead villain could rise from his grave to abuse me for the fun of seeing the said offspring fight him back again, indignant that he should dare to rail at the one friend he has in the world!” p 376 “ He said he wouldn’t suffer a word to be uttered to him, I his disparagement; if he were the devil, it didn’t signify; he would stand by him;” p 376 = Ousted from rightful place by Heathcliff = “ In that manner, Hareton, who should be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant – and quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness and ignorance that he has been wronged.” P 358 = Self – educated = “Yes, I hear him trying to spell and read to himself, and pretty blunders he makes! I wish you would repeat Chevy Chase as you did yesterday… and I heard you turning over the dictionary, to seek out the hard words, and then cursing because you couldn’t read their explanations” p353 “ He began to teach himself to read once, and because I laughed he burned books and dropped it- was he not a fool?” p 364 = Embodies the best qualities of his parents = “ He had first rate qualities, and they are lost – rendered worse than unavailing” p 259 **Displays ancient Earnshaw character – strong, tough, resilient, spirited, proud** “My name is Hareton Earnshaw!” growled the other “and I’d council you to respect it!” “I’ve shown no disrespect was my reply” laughing internally at the dignity with which he announced himself p 16, “The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance and then laughed at for trying to remove it…” Those books were consecrated to my by other associations, and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth”…Hareton’s chest heaved in silence a minute; he laboured under a severe sense of mortification and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress.’ P 353 “ but when I look for his father in his face, I find her every day more! How the devil is he so like? I can hardly bear to see him