Describe the suffering both Heathcliff and Catherine claim to have experienced in each other’s absence.

They both claim to suffer an intense physical and emotional loos when not in each others presence; this is heavily elucidated to through both Heathcliff and Catherine describing the pain they feel when they are not with each other. Catherine describes her and Heathcliff as being the same “whatever [their] souls are made of”, “[Heathcliff’s] and [hers] are the same”. She sees them as essentially one person, and therefore only whole when with each other.

Heathcliff, however, rather than seeing them as one, sees Catherine as himself, he believes he has no reason to live if she does not. He relies on her for happiness and for substance in his own life and refuses to accept her death, as in his eyes, this would he has died as well. “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”