Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights is filled with many controversial psychological conflicts. The main psychological debate in the novel is whether Heathcliff's wicked nature was formed from birth (nature) or whether it was created from the environment he grew up in and all the abuse he suffered. he suffered at the hands of Hindley (education). Everyone is born innocent. It's their environment and their actions that make them truly evil. The same can be said of Heathcliff. His corrupt character was due to his environment and experiences, not because he was born evil. Heathcliff was an orphan and grew up in a home where no one appreciated his presence. The environment he grew up in was not the ideal home. Heathcliff's dark character can also be explained by psychological references such as Sigmund Freud's id, ego, and superego. Given that he is the id, Heathcliff's personality represents a human's most basic desires. Heathcliff was not immoral growing up. It took devastating events in his life to make him the way he is. Heathcliff had been abandoned as a child. No one knows what happened to his parents and why he became an orphan. All we know is that he was a gypsy child living on the streets of Liverpool, with no parents. Being an orphan, Heathcliff had no family ties, status, or land. Heathcliff was thought to be at the bottom of the food chain, but Mr. Earnshaw had taken Heathcliff in as his own child. Heathcliff was Mr. Earnshaw's favorite child. Since he was Mr. Earnshaw's adopted child, yet favorite, Hindley and Catherine envied Heathcliff. Catherine had overcome her initial jealousy and become Heathcliff's friend and eventually... middle of paper ...... she lacked what Edgar Linton had, the superego. This led Catherin to become interested in Edgar and ultimately helped her make her choice between the two men. Heathcliff is a character in the novel whose personality is at the center of the conflict between psychological nature and nurture. Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights contains many controversial psychological conflicts, the main one of which was the argument over Heathcliff's villainous nature and how it was formed. Whether his nastiness comes from his personal nature or the way he was raised. Heathcliff was an orphan and grew up in a home where no one appreciated his presence. Heathcliff's dark character can also be explained by psychological references such as Sigmund Freud's id, ego, and superego. Given that he is the id, Heathcliff's personality represents the most basic desires of a human being..