Approach of the Study

23 developed from the first until the end of the story. The main evidence of the novel that Heathcliff is the major character appears on the conflict, he always takes a part in the conflict of the story. Mostly, he can be described as the center of the story and the conflict also. The other evidence is Heathcliff almost appears in every chapter of the story. According to Forster 1974, there are two categories in the character. There are flat character and round character. Heathcliff in this story described as the round character. It can be seen from the story that the author build the audience perspective about Heathcliff through his physical appearance, his speech and also in the conflict. The author let the readers build their own imagination about Heathcliff character. In order to find out how to characterize the character, researcher uses the theory from Murphy. Murpy 1972 provides nine ways that an author can use to make the story more understandable and more alive for readers. There are nine ways that an author can used, personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation of others, reaction, direct comment, thoughts, and mannerisms. In order to analyze the Heathcliff‟s characteristics, the researcher used personal description, past life, conversation of others, thoughts and mannerisms. In this part, Heathc liff‟s characteristics will be divided into two parts, there are physical characteristics and psychological characteristics. Characteristics mostly have relation with personality. According to Floyd 1950, personality is the totality of the reaction patterns and reaction possibilities of each individual. It 24 states that the individual reaction from each people can describe a character that can differenciate people and the other people. In order to answer the problem formulation, the researcher divided the first physical characteristics of Heathcliff into two parts. The physical characteristics of Heathcliff in the childhood and in his maturity. The second part is the psychological characteristics of Heathcliff.

1. Physical Characteristics

a. The childhood of Heathcliff Heathcliff was an adopted member of the Earnshaw family. He was named Heathcliff. Heathcliff was the name of Mr. Earnshaw son who died in childhood. Heathcliff was taken by Mr. Earnshaw during his trip in Liverpool. He came from the lower class, Mr. Earnshaw found him starving and houseless in the street of Liverpool. He was introduced as a dirty, ragged, black-haired child. Nelly Dean described Hearhcliff on her story. We crow ded round, and over Miss Cathy‟s head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to walk and talk: indeed, its face looked older than Catherine‟s; yet when it was set on its feet, it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand. p.64 Heathcliff was also told by Linton‟s family, the owner of Trushcross Grange. Mr. Linton called him as a little rascal or castaway. Mrs. Linton described Heathcliff as a gipsy and a wicked boy. “Miss Earnshaw scouring the country with a gipsy”