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1、The Analysis of the Forming of Heathcliffs Tragic Personality in Wuthering HeightsABSTRACTThrough ages, human beings have always been in pursuit of love. As an eternal theme in human life, love is a seductive rose with thorn, and it brings pain though it may tastes honey. Love also plays a needful r
2、ole in many literary outputs, so does it in the novel Wuthering Heights which is called “Sphinx in literature” written by Emily Bronte. As the sole novel in Emily Brontes life, Wuthering Heights owns a great fame in literature. The tragic love between two main characters Heathcliff and Catherine is
3、the most fascinating factor in this novel and has been under dispute since the novel was published, and the factors to form Heathcliffs tragic characters, which help to get a better understanding of this novel, have been a major research direction in literature since 1880s.This thesis argues that Ca
4、therines choice of love is the most important factor which causes Heathcliffs distortion and as a result, contributes to the formation of his tragic characters.This thesis mainly focuses on the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine and the influence of Catherines choice of love made on Heathc
5、liffs distortion. It fist gives a brief introduction of Heathcliffs distortion and his tragic love between Catherine; then some main factors which deal with Heathcliffs distortion would be mentioned and provided as supplements to further research. After that, it tries to analyze both external and in
6、ternal factors which cause the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine. And the paper ends with the conclusion that Catherines choice of love is the primary factor which shapes Heathcliffs tragic personalities.Key words: Tragic love，Tragic characters，Heathcliff and Catherine，Wuthering Heights T
7、able of Contents1 Abstract 12 Table of contents23 Introduction34 Literature review of reasons for forming Heathcliffs tragic characters .44.1 Davy L Roberts prototype theory 44.2 Davy Cecils backgrounds theory 54.3 James. C Janets love theory. 6 5 Heathcliff and Catherines love85.1 Happy time for He
8、athcliff and Catherine 85.2 Heathcliffs lifea life in the crack 95.3 Catherines betrayal and Heathcliffs escape 105.4 Heathcliffs return and irrational revenge 116 External and internal factors which cause Heathcliff and Catherines tragic love .127 Conclusion 147.1 A Summary of this thesis 14Works c
9、ited 131 IntroductionEver since the Wuthering Heights was published, it has been under great dispute for its tragic love and the much-criticized character Heathcliff. The character Heathcliff and his weird personalities has been a major research direction since 1880s.Since the 80s 19th , scholars st
10、arted to put their focus on the analysis of Heathcliffs distortion, and the arguments could be summered up to such as the reasons that his living in others home without the care from family, the blow of the betrayed love and his miserable background and so on. But, such arguments have their limitati
11、ons as they just try to analyze the factors of forming Heathcliffs tragic characters in only one or two aspects or take the external factor as the primary one to cause Heathcliff and Catherines tragic love.As Wuthering Heights is a novel which deals with tragic love, the influence of love attaches i
12、mportance to the tragic characters of Heathcliff. In other words, as love is the soul and theme in the novel, it may have a deep relationship between Heathcliffs tragic characters and his tragic love with Catherine. Yet many critics take sorted of factors as the primary factors which form Heathcliff
13、s tragic characters, the author of the present paper argues that the primary factor of forming Heathcliffs tragic characters is related to the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine and Catherines choice of love ultimately forms Heathcliffs distortion. The thesis is composed of four parts. The
14、 first part makes a brief review of previous studies about Wuthering Heights. The second part and the third part are devoted to the analysis of Heathcliff and Catherines tragic love and both external and internal factors of forming their tragic love. The last part will give a summary of this thesis.
15、13 2. Literature review Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, is the real dramatic center of the story. Heath Cliff is a coalescence of several characters and elements, one is the concept of a man whose mind of hatred is pitiless and ruthless, and another is of a man whose desire for revenge degenerates into avarice (Davy Cecil 1934). There are many factors
