Emily Brontë Heathcliff is an enigma who must and can only remain an enigma. The unknowability of his origins, the instability of his identity, are the whole point. To argue that he is ‘from’ anywhere, or is of this or that race, is fruitless. If he is ‘from’ anywhere, it is hell, and the intention is that he be perceived as a supernatural, demonic being, and it is this that elevates the novel from Victorian melodrama to the Gothic. Wuthering Heights  is formed and informed b