Secondly, there is no actual evidence in the book that the two of them ever had sex. Heathcliff ran away when he was sixteen and Catherine fifteen. It seems unlikely that they would have slept together before then.
The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is used as a central plot element of Wuthering Heights. The two are madly in love early in the book, but as the story continues, miscommunication and the class structures of the day forced the two apart.
THE GOTHIC AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Brontë has incorporated the Gothic trappings of imprisonment and escape, flight, the persecuted heroine, the heroine wooed by a dangerous and a good suitor, ghosts, necrophilia, a mysterious foundling, and revenge.
In Chapter 15, Heathcliff himself burst into Cathy's room and in a moment she was in his arms. He begins to show countless kisses on her.
Catherine gives birth to a daughter, Cathy, delivering her two months early—the baby is born at midnight, and Catherine passes away two hours later. Upon hearing the news from Nelly, Heathcliff seems to already be aware.
Lockwood estimates Heathcliff as about forty and Cathy as not yet seventeen.
When Catherine sees the wounds on Heathcliff's back from some mysterious master or parent, she doesn't treat them or kiss them, she licks them, as though it's her only sustenance in this overwhelming landscape that swallows people whole.
Read as an expression of Emily Brontë's ambivalence about her sexual identity, Wuthering Heights is both a representation of homosexual energy and an attempt to contain or imprison it for fear of its social unacceptability and perhaps also of its sheer power.
Wuthering Heights masquerades as a love story, but it is really a study of trauma. Catherine and Heathcliff both have Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and also shows signs of BPD.
He curses Catherine for the pain she has caused him, and pleads with her spirit to haunt him for the rest of his life. She may take any form, he says, and even drive him mad—as long as she stays with him. Edgar keeps a vigil over Catherine's body. At night, Heathcliff lurks in the garden outside.
In chapter 29 of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff tells Nelly Dean about how he dug up Catherine's body just after she was buried, back in chapter sixteen. Heathcliff went alone to the churchyard and, wild in grief for Catherine, dug down to her coffin and attempted to wrench it open.
Heathcliff tells Nelly that he persuaded the sexton to dig up Catherine's grave. He stares at her dusty corpse and bribes the sexton to put his body next to hers when he dies. He has no fear of disturbing the dead, he tells Nelly. Cathy has been haunting him for eighteen years.
Chapter 11 of Wuthering Heights opens with a vision of young Hareton, who has become a demon child from living with the 'Devil Daddy' that is Hindley. Then we move down to Thrushcross Grange, where Heathcliff is seducing Isabella to Catherine's great displeasure.
Catherine's pregnancy is significant in that it embodies the betrayal Heathcliff feels Catherine has done to him. Heathcliff loves Catherine desperately and he knows that she loves him too, but she married someone else who had a better social status than Heathcliff, and to top things off she is also pregnant.
Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.” Perhaps the most famous of all Wuthering Heights quotes, this snippet from Chapter 9 has Catherine expressing her deepest feelings for Heathcliff to the housekeeper Nelly Dean.
Heathcliff's love for Catherine enables him to endure Hindley's maltreatment after Mr. Earnshaw's death. But after overhearing Catherine admit that she could not marry him, Heathcliff leaves. Nothing is known of his life away from her, but he returns with money.
Because of those evidence, Heathcliff as the main character who had been analyzed can be stated as the sufferer of narcissistic personality disorder. This disorder tends to lead to sufferers who love themselves excessively because of their anxiety and fear. They need recognition from other people.
Answer: In Wuthering Heights, Сatherine dies early - not from an illness, but from an exploding soul that could not bear the mistakes in her marriage choice. She died after childbirth, leaving a daughter, Сathy.
Heathcliff, for example, continually desires contact with Catherine's ghost, even going so far as to plead with her to haunt him when she first dies. He also exhumes her grave so that he can look at her again, and he has part of her coffin removed so that he can truly be buried by her side when he dies.
Catherine explains that she cannot marry Heathcliff because Hindley has degraded him so much; however, she expresses her love for Heathcliff. She prefaces her remarks with "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff," and these are the words he overhears.
Catherine does not marry Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights because she sees better opportunities for herself and him by marrying Edgar Linton. Catherine falls in love with Heathcliff, and he loves her but is angry when he overhears her say that she cannot marry him because he is uncivilized and of lower social standing.
Their relationship is intimate but not sexual. Catherine cannot love Heathcliff because he is of a lower class than her. Edgar and Catherine are in a relationship which results in marriage.
Cathy is delighted to see him again, but Linton asks her not to kiss him because it would “take his breath away”. She asks him repeatedly if he is happy to see her again, but he first wondered why she stopped writing to him and he says 'yes' on being with his cousin again.
Answer and Explanation: Catherine was about eighteen or nineteen years old when she died in Wuthering Heights.
Answer and Explanation: Catherine starves herself in Wuthering Heights so that she does not have to give Heathcliff and Edgar, the two men in a love triangle with her, an answer about which one she chooses to be with.