2. "I went to hide little Hareton, and to take the shot out of the master’s fowling-piece, which he was fond of playing with in his insance excitement, to the hazard of the lives of any who provoked, or even attracted his notice too much..."……(chpter8, page62)

3. "Hareton was impressed with a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild-beast’s fondness or his madman’s rage- for in one he ran chance of being squeezed and kissed to death, and in the other of being flung into the fire, or dashed against the wall..."….(chapter9, page62)
Analysis:
        The role of Hindley Earnshaw was a little bit similar to the author's father.  Maybe when Emily created the role, her father gave her some inspirations.  Both of them are self-centered (Example 3), bad tempered (Example 1) and have the habit of playing guns when they feel angry. (Example 2)   Hindley is a, generally speaking, freak in the novel.   After his wife's death, he became violent and bad-tempered.  He acted badly, and even tried to hurt his only son, though he indeed did not mean it.
        In spite of his strange and violent behaviors, the fact that he loved Hareton is allowed no room to doubt.   In this case, Hindley is similar to Patrick Bronte.    Patrick was also a freak, and he had many strange and unreasonable behaviors.      But he still loved his children and gave them chances to be well educated, so there would be so great authors - the three daughters of the Bronte family.
 
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