Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's first and last novel. It is an extraordinary book, related in no way to the fiction of the time, which is not surprising having in mind the life that its author led. Emily was one of Rev. Patrick Bronte's six children, all of which, together with their mother died of consumption. They were a tightly knit family, they kept mostly to themselves, however, records show that all of them except …showed first 75 words of 581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 581 total…ask oneself from where they emerged. It is a fact well known that writers build their characters on real life characters, taking as lmuch as they need and building up the rest. Some of Heathcliff's character traits could be traced back to Emily's father, an ill-mannered and difficult man. However, considering the fact that Emily herself was verging on homosexuality it is possible that she gave Heathcliff a bit of her fierce, sadistic, ruthless nature.