Catherine Earnshaw MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Catherine Earnshaw? Catherine Earnshaw is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sx/so - 478 in Enneagram, SLUEN in Big 5, EIE in Socionics.
It has been a while since I’ve read the book but I’m pretty certain for various reasons according to memory she definitely has inferior Si. I don’t want to say anything specific as I feel what I do remember of her inf Si is more stereotypical than anything, but one thing I do feel is worth mentioning is the fact that she marries Edgar Linton more for the fact of being free emotionally rather than running away as Heathcliff does. Catherine is all about new experiences but not for the same reason a Se user would be. She’s more interested in things theoretically and thoughtfully than in actuality, like how she feels so much so that Heathcliff is an absolute monster even before he does anything in particularly villainous, but she believes he will. Her thoughts are far more metaphorical and symbolic, and while you could make the argument that perhaps if she were an ESFP her Ni is developed or perhaps even one of the reasons it’s so unhealthy is because of the Ne shadow function, there is always the fact that whenever she relates her thoughts, her mind is never in the direct physical world but in ideas or abstractions. Her Fi is obvious so I won’t get into too much detail about that. She analyzed her own emotions and was extremely self reflective, and I also would say she is fe-blind but the fact of how manipulative she is contradicts that, but she obviously does not care what others think of her unless it comes to getting what she wants. Te is more difficult to say as she barely ever really thinks things through in general and it seems to be the least developed of all of her functions. I definitely do admit that the ESFP arguments are compelling and certain details in the book could just be because of the fact that the author was supposedly an intuitive dominant, but personally I think that in itself is a compelling enough argument as well, and as there isn’t many extremely unhealthy ENFPs in classic literature I am more inclined to believe her to be that more easily. Also if you think that even after all of this that I still just think she is an ENFP because of the INTJ-ENFP relationship bias, I am actually happy at how destructive their relationship is and how they should obviously NOT be together. Overall, it adds depth to the stereotypes and proves that people’s perceptions and over romanticized views of mbti stereotypes are more complicated than they actually think.
Biography
Her love for Heathcliff is passionate but incredibly unhealthy and twisted, and eventually consumes her with insanity. Pauline Nestor's introduction to the novel argues that her desire for total identification with the object of her love ('I am Heathcliff!' rather than 'I love Heathcliff') represents a regression to childlike lack of identity, also shown by her failing to recognise her own reflection in a mirror just before she dies. Catherine's love is so insane that it basically destroys her entire identity and personality.
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