Wuthering Heights Trauma

In late 1801, a man named Lockwood rented the a manor called Thrushcross Grange in the moors of England. After meeting Heathcliff, a wealthy yet cruel man who lived not far from Thrushcross Grange, in an ancient manor called Wuthering Heights, he was filled with curiosity and wanted to discover why things were the way they were there at the moors. In that crazed, stormy countryside, Lockwood asked his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him Heathcliff’s story, and after consenting, Lockwood wrote down his recollections of her tale in his diary. Trapped within liminal space, Heathcliff, the main protagonist of Wuthering Heights were forced to suffer trauma and deceit as he tried to create a perfect universe to live in within his mind to escape

As a young girl, she worked as a servant at Wuthering Heights for Mr. Earnshaw and his family. After Mr. Earnshaw travelled to London, he returned one day with a dark skinned gypsy boy whom he would call Heathcliff. At first, Mr. Earnshaw’s birth children, Hindley and Catherine, felt threatened by the new child- Hindley mostly who thought he was being replaced with a new son. But Catherine ended up bonding with the boy and the two soon grow inseparable, spending their days playing on the moors, becoming soul mates. Even though Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw loved Heathcliff, the others at Wuthering Heights were not so accepting. Hindley would constantly torment and torture his new ‘brother,’ treating him like a slave. Because of this, Heathcliff grew to depend on Catherine, since she was his one and only true friend. However, this all changed, creating a major turning point within the

Being doppelgangers to each other, not only were they the same- they were soulmates. Completing each other, Heathcliff was only able to be himself around her. However, one day as the two were playing in the moors, they snuck up on the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange. Startling the family, Catherine was attacked by dogs and was forced to stay at the manor with the Lintons for weeks so that she would be able to heal. Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering heights as entities are oppositional binaries: Wuthering Heights is animalistic and raw. The children and adults who lived there were wild and rabid, where the individuals who lived at Thrushcross Grange were very proper and wealthy. Thrushcross Grange itself was very tidy and fancy in comparison to Wuthering Heights. During her stay, Catherine was primped and taught how to act as a ‘proper lady.’ After Catherine returned to Wuthering Heights donned in a dress and with her hair all crimped, Heathcliff could not believe his eyes. His one true friend - his one true love- had changed and left him behind. Feeling alone once again, he shut her out and fell victim to his own mind and