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1、袁媛:Love and Hatred in Wuthering Heights 89 Love and Hatred in Wuthering Heights n Analysis on HeathcliffS Characteristics (呼啸山庄之爱恨情仇希斯克利夫性格解读) 袁媛 内容提要: 呼啸山庄是艾米莉勃朗特的一部杰出小说。尽管篇幅不长,它却综合了童年的幻想、友谊、爱情和复 仇。但这并不仅仅是一个讲述复仇的故事;它有更多深远的含义。希斯克利夫这一角色象征了人性中极端的爱与极端的 恨。这两者综合在一起使小说呈现出浓厚的戏剧色彩。本文尝试分析了希斯克利夫的性格特征爱恨交织。仇恨不能
2、让 爱消失,爱可以胜过仇恨。这也是这部小说的主题。 关键词:呼啸山庄希斯克利夫爱恨 作者简介:袁媛,成都大学外国语学院助讲,主要研究英语文学。全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)口试考官。 Abstract:Wuthering Hehts,the great novel by Emily Bronte,though not inordinately long is all amalgamation of childhood fantasies,friendship,romance and revengeBut the story is not a simple story of revenge;i
3、t has more profound implicationsThe characterHeathcliffembodiesthe extremeloveandthe extremehatred ofthe humanityThat extremeloveand extremehatredmix together makes the novel take on the thick dramatic colorIn this thesis,the author tries to analyze Heathcliffs characteristics-love andhatredHatred c
4、antmakethelovedisappearLoveis strongerthanhatredThisis alsothetheme ofthisnove1 Keywords:WutheringHeights Heathcliff Love Hatred Author:Yuan Yuan,a teaching assistant at College ofForeign Languages and Cultures in Chengdu University,majoring in English language and litemturc,and also an oral test ex
5、aminer ofPublic English Test System IA brief introduction to Emily Bronte and WutheringHeights Wuthering Heights was Emily BronteS only novel,and is considered the fullest expression of her deeply individual poetic visionIt obvious contains many romantic influences:Heathcliff is a very Byronic Chara
6、cter【JJ,though he lacks the self-pitying that mars many Byronic characters, and is deeply attached to the natural worldWhen the novel was written,the peak of the Romantic age had passed:we should be very grateful that Emily Bronte lived such an isolated life,and was in some sense behind the timesThe
7、 novel expresses deep criticism of social conventions,particularly those surrounding issues of gender:notice that the author distributes”feminine”and”masculine” characteristics without regard to sexBronte had difficulties living in society while remaining true to the things she considered important:
8、the ideal of woman as delicate beings who avoid phy sical or mental activity and pursue fashions and flirtations was repugnant to her 90 世界文学评论第17辑 IICriticisms on the character Heathcliff Emilys sister Charlotte Bronte wrote in the prefacetothe second editionofWutheringHeights ”Heathcliff betrays o
9、ne solitary human feeling, and that is not his love for Catherine;which is a sentimental fierce and inhuman;a passion that might boil and glow in the bad essence of some evil genius;a fire that might form the tormented centre-the eversuffering soul of a magnate of the infernal world;and by its quenc
10、hless and ceaseless ravage effect the execution of the decree which dooms him to carry Hell with him wherever he wandersNo;the single link that connects Heathcliff with humanity is his rudelyconfessed regard for Hareton Earnshaw-he young man whom he has ruined;and then his half-implied esteem for Ne
11、lly DeanThese solitary traits omitted,we should say he was child neither of Lascar nor gipsy,but a mans shape animated by demon lif 一a GhOul_an Afreet” Heathcliff is often interpreted as a representative of natural man or pure passion Tom Winnifrith,in the Dictionary of Literary Biography,picks up o
12、n the idea of Heathcliff as a force of nature and attributed his attraction in part to his association with the landscape and to his honesty,howeveL bruta1The character is vividly realized in his own right-George Henry Lewes described Heathcliff as a”devildrawn with a sort of dusty splendor which fa
13、scinates”In an essay in Reference Guide to English Literature, 、vini丘ed Gerin calls Heathcliffs self-induced death by starvationone of the most powerful and daring climaxes in English fiction” IIIHeathcfiffs characteristics Wuthering Heights centers around the story of Heathclifr_一tbe orphan boy MrE
14、amshaw found in Liverpoo1He becomes MrEarnshaws foster son, and the foster brother of Catherine and Hindley He looks very different with his dark skin,hair, and eyes,and his speech is at first incoherentHe becomes best friend with Catherine,but Hindley hates himFather favors Heathcliff,and becomes f
15、urious when he is treated poorlyThey form a sort of team,though Heathcliff never shows much love or appreciationHe eventually becomes selfish and mean from all this attention,and his favored spot means he can get what he wants from his brother and sisterAfter MrEarnshaws death, Hindley returns and m
16、akes Heathcliff a servant, refusing him the right to speak to CatherineLife becomes miserable,and the little outsider blames Hindley;revenge becomes his only goal in life Growing evil and cruel,he gets his chance when Hind1ey becomes mad after his wifes death,and Heathcliff is able to take Wuthering Heights from himCatherine,his love,marries Edgar Linton and dies in childbirthTo revenge himself against Lintons,Heathcl