RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES AMIDST SPATIAL TRANSGRESSION IN EMILY BRONTË'S WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847).

This article examines Emily Brontë's 1847 novel *Wuthering Heights* through the lens of spatial transgression, applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concepts of "striated space" and "smooth space" from *A Thousand Plateaus* (1980). It argues that the restrictive, patriarchal, and religious environments of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange confine the protagonists Catherine and Heathcliff within striated spaces, symbolizing oppression and limited identity formation. In contrast, the moors, dreams, and acts of resistance represent smooth spaces that enable themes of flight, nomadism, and becoming, facilitating the characters' struggles with identity crises and their processes of self-reconstruction. The study highlights how the interplay between these spatial dynamics shapes the characters' quest for freedom, autonomy, and unity, culminating in their transcendence beyond societal constraints. This spatial analysis offers a novel perspective on the novel's thematic complexity and character development within its Victorian context.