In the novel 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte, Heathcliffe ruins Isabella's life by encouraging her infatuation with him even though he knows full well he has nothing but scorn for her - worse, due to his childhood experiences of her indulgent family, he actually hates her. So, just as she was spoiled by her family, and just as his own chances for happiness and success were spoiled, so he spoils her chances of a happy and financially successful marriage. Readers may infer that, actually, she spoiled her own life chances through her arrogant, imperious and self-centred ways and that no man would have been attracted to her through love anyway. Heathciffe was not attracted to her through love either. He saw her as a useful pawn in his power game and used and emotionally tortured her mercilessly.
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