A part of the rugged land around the Heights, the Moors are an area of rolling grasslands surrounding Wuthering Heights. However, more than just a topographical element; this was where the young Heathcliff and Catherine would venture often (indeed Catherine describes “a scamper on the moors … [as] a pleasant suggestion”), escaping their rough upbringing at the hands of Hindley and Joseph. Therefore, this element of the setting symbolises the idea of freedom, but also, freedom from expectation. It is out in the moors where Heathcliff and Catherine can be together and be the 'savages' they so aspire to be; exempt from the unwavering obedience to religion and authoritative figures their father and Joseph would have them display. It represents an escape from the prison-like Wuthering Heights. Additionally, if Heathcliff is thought of as Dante's Id, it is no consequence that he is most comfortable “[running] away to the moors and [remaining] there all day” out amongst the unrestrained natural world, where he is not alone nor judged in his unwavering compliance to his animalistic instincts. This can be built upon to establish a metaphor relating to the debatably 'anti-foreign' or 'socio-segregational' undercurrents found in the novel; not uncommon in the society in which the book was written. Namely, Heathcliff (being of foreign and gypsy descent - looked down upon at the time of the story's writing) is made to seem to solely belong out in the uncultivated moors with his equivalents being the animals that roam there, not in the refined towns and societies; and the wanton destruction that follows his attempted insertion into said refined society is merely consequence of challenging this fact.