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Wuthering Heights: Catherine Earnshaw (ENFP)

Functional Order: Ne/Fi/Te/Si



Dominant Function: Ne


„My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees — my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath — a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being — so, don't talk of our separation again — it is impracticable.“


Catherine often speaks in a very poetic and metaphorical manner. She draws parallels between her emotional and physical experiences, using her physical environment as a directing point for her abstract musings and romantic ideals of love, stating that her love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath. In her life she doesn‘t just steife for finding Someone she can connect to physically, but mentally as well, seeing herself and Heathcliff as soulmates and as one inseparable metaphysical being. Her love intensifies fantasies and causes her ultimate demise onto madness, as she disconnects from the tangible world around her and gives in ti her romantic delusions, refusing to eat or even leave the house, showing a lack of sensing and engagement with her concrete surroundings. Her character is also an ultimate free spirited, struggling with committing to one singular option, noticing her romantic and earnest love for Heathcliff, but also the possibilities and social influence a marriage to Linton could give her. Because of the multiple possibilities she sees in both options she never manages to really settle down always being conflicted between the many future paths she could take, ultimately causing her tragic death.

Auxiliary Function: Fi


"She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world."

Catherine is quite an intense person, often having conflicting feelings about things and is moved both by her romantic idealism and desire to stay true to her feelings and her personal desires of wealth, security and influence. Catherine often acts based on these feelings, which can make her appear careless and self centered at times. She is self absorbed in her quest for emotional peace and in the desire to find her soulmate , but often borrows these intense feelings under a more careless exterior. This also makes her enjoy the outside, travelling through he moors as only there she can be truly herself.

Tertiary Function: Te


Cathrine is quite assertive adm described as being strong willed and somewhat authoritative. Her spoiled upbringing makes her quite commanding often expecting her inferiors to bow to her every whim and she likes having control of her life, valuing social influence and the power to life a free and unrestricted life even over her own feelings of love. She often lashes out if those etching irritates her, being blunt about what she views as the objective truth but often gets carried away by her feelings.

Inferior Function: Si


Even though she is mostly future and present focused and doesn‘t seem to be bound by her past or traditions, she secretly values the stability and sense of security a life with Linton can offer her, but can never fully commit to this. Her past ultimately ends up haunting herself and those closest to her as she can‘t let go of her past heartbreak even after her death, visiting her past lovers as a ghost.

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