...it, and stand you aside !" " I seek no revenge on you," replied Heathcliff less vehement-ly. " That's not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for...

...you infernally ? " " I seek no revenge on you," replied Heathcliflf, , less vehemently. ' ' That's not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for...

...their own hands, and delighting in mastery almost to the point of torture. As Heathcliff says to Cathy: "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style" (11.87). For both, the wealth they have accumulated is bound to their own physical persons. In Wuthering...

...many frustrations inflamed internecine violence. As Emily Bronte ( l847l wrote in Wuthering Heiglus: "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them" PARALLELS WITH THE ANGLO-BOER WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA Even at the time of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa...

...he intends to take revenge on her. This is HeathclifFs reply: 'I seek no revenge on you . . . That's not the plan The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style . . . ' (1.xi.n2). Having admitted to possessing a 'plan', Heathcliff establishes a hierarchy of suffering:...

...addressed to Cathy, concerning his dalliance with Isabella: "I seek no revenge on you. . . . That's not the plan — The tyrant grinds down his slaves...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style" (151). In this passage, power, tyranny, and enslavement are entirely personal, enabling Heathcliff...

...system is carried on the backs of the poor and the powerless. The English novelist Emily Bronte wrote, "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush, instead, those beneath them." And because the poor and the powerless are, for reasons not yet fully...

...little while! HEATHCLJFF. I seek no revenge on you. You are welcome to torture me to death for your own amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and admire your own charity in giving me that for a home....

...will not, he says, 'suffer unrevenged' (128). But, says Heathcliff, 'I seek no revenge on you . . . The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style . . .' (128). HeathclifFs cruelty toward others is a mode of relation to Cathy. Though his appearance...