... prominent lifestyle guides her decision-making: she would marry Heathcliff, if Hindley had not cast him down so low. Heathcliff's emotional turmoil is due in part to his ambiguous class status. He begins life as a lower-class orphan, but is raised to the status of a gentleman's son when Mr. ... Heathcliff, whom she often heatedly denounces. This section of the book offers some evidence for the latter view. For instance, when Catherine teasingly tells Heathcliff in Chapter X that Isabella has fallen in love with him, she does so by saying, "Heathcliff, I'm proud to show you, at last, so...

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... [her]self" by "betraying her own heart". Martin Turnell addressed the idea that Catherine's demise was brought on by her emotions. He studied her behaviour, primarily in Chapter 15 and came to the conclusion that she was showing signs of "self starvation masochism and suicide" that "form a complex of psychoneurotic symptoms that are almost classically ... alienation. The fact that she has emphasised his loneliness in this way may heighten the idea that it is significant in provoking his insanity. The setting appears to play a large part in affecting the sanity of the characters in both ...

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