Catherine marries Edgar. Heathcliff returns (Ch10). Catherine stays at Thrushcross Grange. Becomes friends with Linton (Ch7). Catherine marries Edgar. Heathcliff returns (Ch10). 1771 1777 1780 1783 1784 Mr Earnshaw brings Heathcliff to WH (Ch4). Catherine dies giving birth to Cathy (Ch16). What are the major themes/ideas found in this half of the plot? How does this compare to the second half of the plot? Hindley takes charge (Ch6). Heathcliff and Catherine become intimate friends (Ch5). Heathcliff runs away from Wuthering Heights (Ch9).

doppelgänger  double walker

your own doppelgänger  death Examples: Percy Shelly, Queen Elizabeth I

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

 the doppelgänger motif poses the paradox of encountering oneself as an other

two types  the alter ego or identical double of the protagonist, resulting from identity theft or a paranoid hallucination;  the split personality or dark half of the protagonist, a physical manifestation of a dissociated part of the self. 

identification and othering an identical alter ego: the protagonist is trying to resist a process of identification with a doppelgänger who seems to be taking over or merging with his identity.

identification and othering a split personality: the protagonist makes the fatal mistake of not securing his identity by othering or disavowing as ‘not-I’ a part of his self which ought to have been disclaimed.

allegory of socialization an identical alter ego: in order to develop an ego it is necessary internalize the imaginary order created by society: I must identify as ‘I’ that which is not me.

allegory of socialization a split personality: concerns the necessity of renouncing (othering) the socially unacceptable sides of the self: I must other as ‘not-I’ that which is myself.

narcissism

a symptom of the failure to invest one’s libido in ‘proper’ object-love i.e. love of an other (Freud)

How might this relate to Catherine’s claim, “He’s more myself than I am” (Ch 9)?