

Besides, his passionate love destroys Cathy’s life that dies leaving Edgar with their daughter, Catherine. Heathcliff, in this way, gets a control (= ottiene il controllo)on Wuthering Heights and on Trushcross Grange, inherited (= ereditata) by his weak (= debole) son Linton after Edgar’s death. He forces Catherine to marry Linton who is ill and soon dies.
Now Heathcliff has both Catherine’s daughter and Hindley’s son, Hareton, in his power. At this point his lust (= desiderio smisurato)of revenge has died and he hears the voice of his Catherine calling him from the moors where she is buried and dies. The two remaining victims, Hareton and Catherine, discover to love each other and re-establish peace and joy in the Earnshaw and in the Lintons’s houses.
The novel was first adapted into a film Wuthering Heights in 1939, directed by William Wyler, screenplay by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht; starring Laurence Olivier as heathcliff; Merle Oberon as Cathy and David Niven as Edgar Linton.
1970 – directed by Robert Fuest, screen-play by Patrick Tilley; starring Timothy Dalton, Anna Calder-Marshall and Harry Andrews
1978 – a BBC TV series
1992 – directed by Peter Kosminsky, screenplay by Anne Devlin, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Simon Shepherd.
2011 – directed by Andrea Arnold, screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, starring James Howson, Kaya Scodellaro and Oliver Milburn.