Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ) transports the Gothic to the forbidding Yorkshire Moors and features ghostly apparitions and a Byronic hero in the person of the demonic Heathcliff while Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) adds The Madwoman in the Attic ( Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar 1979 ) to the cast of Gothic fiction.

One such example is Heathcliff from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

When the recording was presented on the Orange and Blue album, Campbell-Lyons's liner notes treated it seriously and with allusion to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.

Offered the role of Heathcliff in Samuel Goldwyn's production of Wuthering Heights ( 1939 ), he travelled to Hollywood, leaving Leigh in London.

Yet, from a professional and personal point-of-view, both films were significant challenges for Binoche ; her casting opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, in favour of English actresses Helena Bonham Carter and Kate Beckinsale, was immediately contentious and drew derision from the British press, unimpressed that a uniquely English role had gone to a French actress.

Soon after his arrival, he visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives in the remote moorland farmhouse called " Wuthering Heights.

" He finds the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights to be a rather strange group: Mr. Heathcliff appears a gentleman but his mannerisms suggest otherwise ; the reserved mistress of the house is in her mid-teens ; and a young man appears to be one of the family, although he dresses and talks like a servant.

He becomes master of Wuthering Heights, and forces Heathcliff to become a servant instead of a member of the family.

Heathcliff finds himself the master of Wuthering Heights and the guardian of Hareton.

Three years later, Nelly and Cathy are on the moors when they meet Heathcliff who takes them to Wuthering Heights to see Linton and Hareton.

In August of the next year, while Edgar is very ill, Nelly and Cathy visit Wuthering Heights and are held captive by Heathcliff who wants to marry his son to Cathy and, at the same time, prevent her from returning to her father before he dies.

With Heathcliff now the master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, Cathy has no choice but to leave Nelly and to go and live with Heathcliff and Hareton.

After being ill with a cold for some time, Lockwood decides that he has had enough of the moors and travels to Wuthering Heights to inform Heathcliff that he is returning to the south.

* Heathcliff: Found, and presumably orphaned, on the streets of Liverpool, he is taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw and reluctantly cared for by the rest of the family.

Her decision to marry Edgar Linton over Heathcliff has been seen as a surrender to culture, and has implications for all the characters of Wuthering Heights.

After being married to Heathcliff and abused at Wuthering Heights, she escapes to London and gives birth to Linton.

*: Zillah: A servant to Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights in the time after Catherine's death.

Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1847 ), is suspected of being a vampire by his housekeeper at one point, which she immediately laughs off as " absurd nonsense.

In 1953, he appeared in a BBC Television adaptation of the novel Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff.

* Wuthering Heights ( 1953 ) ( TV ) as Heathcliff

Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights opposite Juliette Binoche, for which he received substantial acclaim and praise throughout Europe.

In his afterword to The Goblins of Labyrinth, Froud wrote that Jareth references " the romantic figures of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and a brooding Rochester from Jane Eyre " and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is described as a monomaniac, obsessing over his reunion with Cathy in the final chapters of the novel.

Branwell's Charlotte Zamorna, one of the heroes of Verdopolis, towards increasingly ambiguous behaviour, and the same influence and evolution recur with Emily Brontë, especially in the characters of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, and Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, who display the traits of a Byronic hero.

Heathcliff has been staying at the Heights, gambling with Hindley and teaching Hareton bad habits.

Although Cathy is attracted to him, Heathcliff wants his son with him and insists on having him taken to the Heights.

His position in society, without status ( Heathcliff serves as both his given name and surname ), is often the subject of Marxist criticism.

* George Gately ( 1928 – 2001 ), creator of the Heathcliff comic strip.

** Heathcliff ( musical ), a musical based on the book Wuthering Heights

* Heathcliff ( comic strip ), a comic strip about a cat of the same name

** Heathcliff ( 1980 TV series ), a cartoon based on the above comic strip, produced by Ruby-Spears

** Heathcliff ( 1984 TV series ), a cartoon based on the same comic strip, produced by DiC

Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1831 ), Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edmond Dantes from Alexandre Dumas ' The Count of Monte Cristo ( 1844 ), and Rochester from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre ( 1847 ) are other later 19th-century examples of Byronic heroes.

* George Gately ( 1928 – 2001 ), creator of the Heathcliff comic strip

In addition to his roles in the theatre, Firth has acted in cinematic films and radio dramas, narrated audiobooks, and has also made notable television appearances, such as Linton Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ( 1992 ); Fred Vincy in Middlemarch ( 1994 ); Sergeant Troy in Far from the Madding Crowd, for which he received a nomination for best actor ; Lord Arthur Goring in An Ideal Husband ( 2000 ); and Prince Albert in Victoria & Albert ( 2001 ), which he considered one of his most difficult roles.

Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown ( a Bruce Wayne incarnate voiced by Gary Owens ) and his mechanical mongrel, Dynomutt ( voiced by Frank Welker who got the inspiration for the voice from the Gertrude and Heathcliff characters of Red Skelton ), enjoy leisure time in their base of operations Big City, until alerted by the Falcon Flash.

In August 2009, he appeared in ITV's Wuthering Heights, playing the part of Heathcliff, the classic love character who falls in love with his childhood friend Cathy ( played by Charlotte Riley ), " the love that destroyed everything it touched ".

Heathcliff is typically considered a Byronic hero, but critics have found his character, with a capacity for self-invention, to be profoundly difficult to assess.

* Linton Heathcliff: The son of Heathcliff and Isabella, he is a very weak child and his character resembles Heathcliff's, though without its only redeeming feature: love.

* Dr. Heathcliff " Cliff " Huxtable, the lead character on The Cosby Show, played by Bill Cosby

They designed Dimitri as a brooding and mysterious character based on heroes from gothic literature such as Maxim de Winter from Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff.

Nixon and Broderick also crafted the character as a darkly brooding and mysterious man in the same vein as Gothic literary heroes such as Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff, Jane Eyre's Edward Rochester, and Rebecca's Maxim de Winter.

Heathcliff is a comic strip created by George Gately in 1973 featuring the title character, a wisecracking cat.

Another character is Muggsy Faber, Westfinster's local bully and his bulldog, Spike, whom Heathcliff usually ( and very easily ) outwits.

The monologue often lapsed into character humor, with two of the recurring bits being " George Appleby ", a perennially henpecked husband into whom Red transformed by donning heavy black-rimmed spectacles and a misshapen derby hat, and " Gertrude and Heathcliff, the Two Seagulls ", which he performed by crossing his eyes and sticking his thumbs into his armpits for " wings ".

In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights the character Mr. Heathcliff likens his son's state of depression to having been dropped " into a Slough of Despond ".