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1、精品文档Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature. As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most h
2、aunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff. These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility. Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness. On the othe
3、r hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation. Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story en
4、ded with Heathcliffs suicide. He died for love and hisdeath shows his love to Katherine. He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature. It was the cruel reality that twisted his hum
5、anity and madehim becomebrutal and heartless. This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spiritand it glareda kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope. Therefore, Heathcliff s change of “love-hate-revenge-arecovery of humanity ” is not only th
6、e essenceof the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel. According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us. Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind. The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and
7、 horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine andHeathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing lovebetween young Catherine and Harleton. In contrast to the first, the latter
8、tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The most important feature of young Catherine andHarleton s love story is that it involves growth and change. Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal f
9、riend to young Catherine and learns to read. Catherine and Heathcliffs love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhoodand is marked by the refusal to change. In choosing to marry Edgar,Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heat
10、hcliff or embracing Edgar. Catherine and Heathcliff s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. As Catherine declares,“I amHeathcliff, ” while Heathcliff,upon Catherine s death, said that he cannot live without his“soul, ”meaning Catherine.Catherine s betrayal and her bitter
11、destiny was the turning point ofthe whole story.Itmade Heathcliffchange hislove tohate. AfterCatherine died,thehate became themotivationof hisrevenge. Hesuccessfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Lintondied in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent
12、 younger generation experience the hardships. This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior. This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and hisspecial character. Heathcliff s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering H
13、eights was known as “most strange novel ” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable strange book. The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age. It replaced the deep sadness and depression withintense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge. It just like a strangelyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed amongthe words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power. 3欢迎下载 。