Assertion: masochism | /r/DefinedAs | the act
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text: Defined as “the act or instance of gaining pleasure from physical or psychological pain” as well as “a taste for suffering,” masochism seems to dominate the behavior of not only Heathcliff (whether striking his own skull against a tree until it draws blood or begging Catherine to “drive [him] mad” (148) with haunting), but all the players in the twisted family tree that is Wuthering Heights.