While Heathecliff is the main villianous character in Wuthering Heights, as stated above, Cathy is a villianous character herself at times. She spurns Heathcliff whom she loves for Linton because he is wealthy. Later she hurts Linton by displaying her love for Heathcliff openly. She suffers because she feels that she cannot marry Heathcliff because of his lower social position, yet when he returns, she finds that she cannot live without him. Although she dies in childbirth, she really dies of a broken heart telling Heathcliff: "You and Edgar have broken my heart."
Although several of the characters have some villianous characteristics, none of them is completely evil and each has extenuating circumstances in that lead them to be what they are. Even Hindley has a weakness for drink that he cannot control. I think this enhances Bronte's work because she is showing us a side of human nature that we cannot control. Heathcliff, Catherine, and even Hindly are like the wild moors on which they live; full of uncontrollable storms, passions, and addictions. These larger than life passions may be uncontrollable but it makes their lives larger than other live's: lives that may just continue on after death in the storms of the moors where they lived.
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