While Catherine is wild, wilful and passionate, she also possesses a double character. Catherine is a very unpredictable character due to her split personality. Catherine’s “soulmate” Heathcliff wishes to be in control of her but struggles to do so due to her wild personality. Her five-week sojourn at the grange awakens in her an appreciation of the civilized world. When she returns to the Heights, both her manner and appearance change. From then on, Catherine adopts a split personality - an amusing lady-like disposition in the company of the Lintons, and returning to her wild passionate self when accompanied by Heathcliff.
Catherine possesses a wild, passionate nature which is initially presented when she spits on Heathcliff. She does so when she discovers that he was the reason for her father losing the whip she was to get. Further evidence of Catherine's wildness can be seen from the pledge she and Heathcliff make—they promise “fair to grow up as rude as savages" in response to …show more content…
Her passion, described as "gunpowder which lay[s] as harmless as sand because no fire [comes] near to explode it", is subdued as the materialistic side to her personality begins to assert itself. For example, Catherine aspires to be “the greatest lady in the neighbourhood.” For the first time in the novel, Catherine worries about how others see her and confesses to Nelly that it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. The duality of Catherine's character is thus a result of a crisis point in her marriage to Edgar. She not only physically removes herself from her soulmate, Heathcliff, but she also emotionally removes herself from the wildness and freedom of the Heights and the crags. This choice made by Catherine favours wealth, civilization and social position over her natural affinity with the untamed, and uncivilized world represented by
Catherine possesses a wild, passionate nature which is initially presented when she spits on Heathcliff. She does so when she discovers that he was the reason for her father losing the whip she was to get. Further evidence of Catherine's wildness can be seen from the pledge she and Heathcliff make—they promise “fair to grow up as rude as savages" in response to …show more content…
Her passion, described as "gunpowder which lay[s] as harmless as sand because no fire [comes] near to explode it", is subdued as the materialistic side to her personality begins to assert itself. For example, Catherine aspires to be “the greatest lady in the neighbourhood.” For the first time in the novel, Catherine worries about how others see her and confesses to Nelly that it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. The duality of Catherine's character is thus a result of a crisis point in her marriage to Edgar. She not only physically removes herself from her soulmate, Heathcliff, but she also emotionally removes herself from the wildness and freedom of the Heights and the crags. This choice made by Catherine favours wealth, civilization and social position over her natural affinity with the untamed, and uncivilized world represented by