35 I shouldn‟t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff
now; p. 106 In that position, decision to marry Edgar is the best choice for Catherine.
She thinks that marry Edgar will upgrade her position, and she will be rich also because Edgar is rich.
‟And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.‟p. 104
Heathcliff frustated after hearing the statement and confession from Catherine. He thinks that he cannot get Catherine‟s love and attention because of
his appearance now and his poverty. He leaves Wuthering Heights because of that situations. In this part, theory of motivation from Aiken 1969 will be applied to
answer the motivation of Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights. Aiken 1969 states that motivation is the influence from an internal state
of the organism that directs the behavior to one condition or object that is called goals. Since the motivation are always have relationship with behavior, it is true
that a motive or motivation explains the behavior that needed. In this situation, Heathcliff feels that he is not handsome and not rich
enough to attract Catherine‟s attention. Because of that reasons, Heathcliff is motivated to change his fate, the fate from God. In this part, the meaning of
Heathcliff‟s love starts to appear, Heathcliff‟s love is infatuated and maniac love. According to Lee 1973, Mania describes love as a mixture of conflict
and romantic from Eros. Maniac lovers rarely achieve happiness in love. Extreme jealousy is reasonable as a proof of love. Mania refers to the helpless obsession of
love, their love feelings beyond the rational control.
36 Heathcliff appears to have a mania love because of the needs of his love. It
can be seen that he needs Catherine physically. Heathcliff has obsessed with Catherine. He loves the act of Catherine, the way she teaches, she plays and how
she takes care of him. Three years Heathcliff dissapear from Wuthering Heights, now he returns
to Wuthering Heights and he has changed. It appears on the statement of Nelly about Heathcliff that he is changed.
I was amazed, more than ever, to behold the transformation of Heathcliff. He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master
seemed quite slender and youth-like. His upright carriage suggested the idea of his having been in the army. p.121
Heathcliff‟s love turns into the feeling of revenge. He wants to revenge to all people who hurt him and give a bad treatment to him. He starts his revenge by
owning Wuthering H eights. He pays all Hindley‟s debt because of gambling. He
owns Wuthering Heights and be a landlord in there. The second revenge of Heathcliff is for Edgar Linton. He wants to take
revenge because he married the woman that Heathcliff loved. He comes to Trushcross Grange and have a time with Edgar and Catherine. Heathcliff shows
his dissapointment through his speech. ‟I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy‟ said her friend. „I
compliment you on your taste. And that is the slavering, shivering thing you preferred to me p. 140
The third revenge of Heathcliff is destroy the relation between Edgar and Isabella. Isabella loves Heathcliff from his first appearance in Trushcross after he
returns. Heathcliff finds a way to take another revenge, so he decides to marry Isabella to take his revenge to Edgar.
37 In conclusion, the meaning of Heatahcliff‟s love is presenting the physical
love of Heathcliff. He has a maniac types of love because he has so much obsession about Catherine. He seems to make a protest to God about his situations
and why he was born to be like that.
2. Deeper Meaning
The deeper meaning of Heathcliff‟s love is the meaning that can be seen in the novel implicitly. The deeper meaning of Heathcliff‟s love is not only from
what the main character says, but it also can be seen from the motivation of the main character.
In this part, it can be described from the literal meaning that meaning of Heathcliff‟s love is maniac love or infatuated love. The researcher also states that
meaning of Heathcliff‟s love is physical love. It can be seen implicitly from the
novel, Heathcliff wants Catherine so much. The researcher analyzes the deeper meaning of Heathcliff‟s love from the leaving of Heathcliff from Wuthering
Heights. According to Aiken 1969, motivation is the influence from an internal
state of the organism that directs the behavior to one condition or object that is called goals.
The motivation of Heathcliff when leaving Wuthering Heights is to change his fate implicitly. His internal state of the organism directs him to make a change
through everything, appearance and financial. He thinks that change his fate will change Catherine also.
38 Heathcliff changes his fate to have an equal position with Catherine. He
needs the love. In this situation, Heathcliff‟s love can be described as physically
love, not spiritual love. Heathcliff‟s love is not growing spiritually inside his heart. The meaning of spiritual love
is Heathcliff‟s love is growing deep beneath his soul.
Before the death of Catherine, Heathcliff feels that life without Catherine is not worth living. He feels that his future without Catherine is death and hell.
Even though her unfortunate choice for a husband, Heathcliff knows that Edgar is incapable of loving Catherine as the way he does.
Two words would comprehend my future - DEATH and HELL: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that
she valued Edgar Linton‟s attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny bein
g, he couldn‟t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. p. 172
In the different situations, when Heathcliff meets Catherine, he states that
he does not break Catherine‟s heart. He wants to protest about his overhears when Catherine decides to marry Edgar, not him. Catherine is breaking her heart and it
breaks Heathcli ff‟s heart also. He wonders how he lives without the woman that
he loves. He states it when he has a conversation with Catherine. I have not broken your heart - YOU have broken it; and in breaking it, you
have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh, God would YOU
like to live with your soul in the grave?‟ p. 184 In this part, the statement from Heathcliff is clear enough to analyze that
he has a maniac love that focuses on a physical love. He does not realize that he does not really love Catherine. He just loves Catherine on his physical side, he
39 cannot loose Catherine. He loves Catherine but he wants Catherine feels also the
same with what Heathcliff feels. However, on the day that Catherine passed away he starts to realize that
his love is not immortal for her. He cannot loose Catherine, his love starts to sink deep beneath his soul. Heathcliff says a prayer but not a prayer, just like a
statement from a lunatic. He is so obsessed about Catherine, in this statement, Heathcliff appears to have a spiritual love for Catherine.
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I
believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always-- take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I
cannot find you Oh, God It is unutterable I cannot live without my life I cannot live without my soul p.189
Heathcliff also looks like a lunatic. It can be seen also from the anti-
normal act that he asks sexton to open the Catherine‟s coffin so he can see the face of Catherine.
„I‟ll tell you what I did yesterday I got the sexton, who was digging Linton‟s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I
thought, once, I would have stayed there: when I saw her face again - it is hers yet p. 302
From Heathcliff‟s statement, it can be described that he is going to be a lunatic, he is so depressed that Catherine is passed away. He wants Catherine
haunted him, Heathcliff wants Catherine be with him in any form, so he can feel alive again. He also opens Catherine‟s coffin just want to see Catherine‟s face. In
that statement described also that Heathcliff cannot live without his life. The meaning of his life and his soul is Catherine.
40 In another situations, Catherine seems haunted Heathcliff, he feels her
appearance in everywhere. Heathcliff is being surrounded with Catherine‟s image. He thinks that everything is just memoranda for the reason that He losts her.
I am surrounded with her image The most ordinary faces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world
is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her p. 335
Heathcliff starts to be haunted by Catherine, even when Mr. Lockwood
sleeps in the Catherine room, Mr. Lockwood sees the image of Catherine. Heathcliff soon comes to Catherine rooms and let Mr. Lockwood go out, He acts
like a lunatic who wants Catherine haunted him again. He feels lost. „Come in come in‟ he sobbed. „Cathy, do come. Oh, do - ONCE more
Oh my heart‟s darling hear me THIS time, Catherine, at last‟ p. 57 The researcher analyzes the situations on the novel that Heathcliff starts to
think how he can be with Catherine. There are lots of situations that make Heathcliff feels that his love starts to grow spiritual for Catherine.
After being haunted by Catherine, Heathcliff losts his consciousness and start dying. He is not eating at all. He moves to room with panelled bed that the
window is wide enough to let someone get through. He seems to make a midnight excursion to somewhere.
Mr. Heathcliff was going to bed, and he wanted nothing to eat till morning. We heard him mount the stairs directly; he did not proceed to
his ordinary chamber, but turned into that with the panelled bed: its window, as I mentioned before, is wide enough for anybody to get
through; and it struck me that he plotted another midnight excursion, of which he had rather we had no suspicion. p. 340
41 Heathcliff starts to imagine or see the Catherine‟s ghost. Heathcliff looks
happy and looking Catherine with pleasure. Nelly described the appearance of Catherine to Mr. Lockwood. Heathcliff feels happy.
Now, I perceived he was not looking at the wall; for when I regarded him alone, it seemed exactly that he gazed at something within two yards‟
distance. And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: p. 342
Heathcliff suggests Nelly that he must buried near Catherine‟s tomb. He tells to Nelly also that he attains his heaven. Heathcliff thinks that his heaven is
not a place after die, but his heaven means the situations that he can meet Catherine and live forever in the same world.
I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me. p. 344
The death of Heathcliff has come. Heathcliff dies mysteriously. The
window is open and his eyes is so keen and fierce, his face seems to be smile. Nelly tries to make sure that he is really die, and that is true that Heathcliff died.
When I put my fingers to it, I could doubt no more: he was dead and stark p. 346
I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes: p. 346
In this part, Heathcliff‟s soul seems to be haunted Wuthering Heights. People see him near the church and even within Heathcliff‟s house. The two soul
is not rest in peace. They haunted that place. It can be seen from Nelly‟s
description about the two souls. But the country folks, if you ask them, would swear on the Bible that he
WALKS: there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this hous
e. Idle tales, you‟ll say, and so say I. Yet that old man by the kitchen fire affirms he has seen two on „em
