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The paper explores the psychological aspects of anti-heroism in the works of Emily and Charlotte Brontë: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. It considers how traumatised, repressed, inner conflict characters make heroism psychologically complex in the nineteenth century literature. The Victorian concept of ethical stasis and societal conformity is undermined by characters like Edward Rochester, Jane Eyre, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. This paper examines the effect of marginalisation, childhood trauma, and repressed emotions on creating anti-heroic identities within psychoanalytic concepts such as Freudian theories, Jungian theories on the shadow self and the traumatic theory. Heathcliff is the anti-hero of destruction, which is dependent on the unresolved anguish and compulsive disorder, whereas Jane Eyre is a character of moral and psychological autonomy. The thesis states that these novels transform anti-heroism as a mere ethical deviation into a complicated psychological state, which makes the inner conflict, identity formation, and emotional conflict a set of the modern literary heroes.