loor, her features are shaped in the flags...in every cloud, in every tree." The degree in which Heathcliff is tormented by Catherine is reflected when he said-: "Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy...you love me, what right had you to leave me?" The sense of despair following news of Catherine's death is a good example of Heathcliff's tormented spirit-: "I cannot live without my life, I cannot live without my soul" He, said Nelly, howled not like a man, but like a savage beast getting goaded to death with knives and spears. Life for Heathcliff after Catherine's death is an unnatural existence. He feels he belongs with her both in body and in spirit and has already arranged with the Sexton to be buried beside her. Life for him is "like bending back a stiff spring". The young Cathy recognizes that Heathcliff has rejected all society although she doesn't realize that his attachment remains to her late mother-: "Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you...your cruelty arises from your greater misery." From the beginning of the novel and most likely from the beginning of his life, he has suffered pain and rejection. When Mr. Earnshaw brings him to Wuthering Heights, he is viewed as a thing rather than a child. Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors, while Nelly put it on the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider, following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. In these formative years, he is deprived of love, sociability and education, according to Nelly; Hindley's treatment of Heathcliff was "enough to make a fiend of a saint". He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to become a farm hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. Personality that Heathcliff develops in his adult life has been formed ...
