I really don't think that Wuthering Heights is about the struggle between good and evil.
Although Heathcliff is pretty darn nasty, it's hard to see him as evil incarnate; he's more a case of a person overcome by obsessive love and jealousy.
Catherine (the elder) is certainly no saint with her two-timing of Heathcliff and Linton. Edgar Linton is a decent fellow, but a whiner, at least in his youth. Catherine (the daughter) is at times deliberately cruel to Hareton. Her cousin, Linton Heathcliff, is a pathetic crybaby who is an accomplice to Heathcliff's plot to kidnap Catherine and Nelly.
The only character whom I truly admire is Nelly. She is caring, loyal, and intelligent.
I suppose you can look at Wuthering Heights as a symbol of evil and Thrushcross Grange as a symbol of good. I, however, would prefer to see them as symbols of decay and civilization, respectively.
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