外语系学士学位论文 The Roles of Heathcliff.docx

1、外语系学士学位论文 The Roles of Heathcliff*大学外语系学士学位论文The Roles of Heathcliff专 业：英语学 号：*姓 名：*指导教师：* 年 * 月The Roles of Heathcliff 论文提纲1. The Foundling and Suffer: - Heathcliffs childhood torment hatred - disappear2. The Usurper and Avenger: - return-ruin Hindley and Hareton-get Wuthering Heights make Linton m

2、arry Cathy-acquire Thrushcross Grange3. The Love and The Death; - Heathcliffs eternal faithfulness to Catherine the line of the whole story - the curious behavior in his final days they get together at last The Roles of Heathcliff摘要：呼啸山庄通过一个爱情悲剧，向人们展示了一幅畸形社会的生活画面，勾勒了被这个畸形社会扭曲了的人性及其造成的种种可怖事件。整个故事的情节实

3、际上是通过四个阶段逐步铺开的：第一阶段叙述了希斯克利夫与凯瑟琳朝夕相处的童年生活；一个弃儿和一个小姐在这种特殊环境中形成的所形成的特殊感情，以及他们对辛德雷专横暴虐的反抗。第二阶段着重描写凯瑟琳因为虚荣，无知和愚昧。背弃了希斯克利夫，成了画眉山庄的女主人。第三阶段以大量笔墨描绘希斯克利夫如何在绝望中把满腔仇恨化为报仇雪耻的计谋和行动最后阶段尽管只交代了希斯克利夫的死亡，却突出地揭示了当他了解哈里顿和凯蒂相爱后，思想上经历的一种崭新的变化-人性的复苏，从而使这出具有恐怖色彩的爱情悲剧透露出一束令人快慰的希望之光。因此希斯克利夫的爱恨复仇人性的复苏，既是小说的精髓，又是贯穿始终的一条红线。作者依此

4、脉络。谋篇布局，把场景安排的变幻莫测，有时在阴云密布，鬼哭狼嚎的旷野，有时又是风狂雨骤，阴森惨暗的庭院，故事始终笼罩在一种神秘和恐怖的气氛之中。本篇论文通过对希斯克利夫在第一，第三和最后一个阶段中所表现不同角色的分析，探讨了主人公不同性格的形成背景。希斯克利夫这个被剥夺了人间温暖的弃儿在实际生活中培养了强烈的爱与恨。辛德雷的皮鞭使他尝到了人生的残酷，也教会了特懂得忍气的屈服无法改变自己受辱的命运。而凯瑟琳的背叛及其婚后悲苦的命运，使希斯克利夫满腔的爱化为无比的恨。这腔仇恨成了疯狂的复仇动力，希斯克利夫的目的达到了他不仅让辛德雷和埃德加凄苦死去，独霸了两家的产业，还让他们平白无辜的下一代也饱尝了

5、苦果。最后故事以希斯克利夫达到复仇目的而自杀告终。他的死是一种殉情，而他死之前放弃对下一代报复的念头，表明他的天性本来是善良的，这种人性的复苏是一种精神上的升华，闪耀着作者人道主义的理想。关键词：角色，弃婴，磨难，篡夺，复仇，爱，死亡Abstract: Wuthering Heights was published in 1874; the only novel written by Emily Bronte. The novel is largely the story of one man, Heathcliff, a foundling brought by Mr.Earnshaw to

6、 Wuthering Heights at the time when the boy was a child. Throughout the novel, Heathcliffs personality, on one side, could be defined as dark, selfish and brutal. He is a dangerous character, with rapidly changing moods, capable of deep-seed hatred, and incapable, it seems, of any kind of forgivenes

7、s or compromise. On the other side, the love between Heathcliff and Catherine is the dominant line in the whole story.Heathclifflife could be divided into three periods in which he plays as different rolesThe thesis tells the three different roles that Heathcliff plays in his different life periods.

8、 As a foundling and suffer, he spend his misery childhood and left Wuthering Heights with hate in his heart. When Heathcliff comes back, he begins his plan as a usurper and avenger. Finally Heathcliff succeed in his plan, but he could never get the love and his life ends. Key words: roles,foundling,

9、suffer,usurper,avenger,love,death.Introduction: Pu Ruoqian (浦若茜)，one professer from Xian Foreign Language College,he analyses the point of the Ghotic style in the novel. The thesis is devided into three parts in which Heathcliff plays as different roles. In the first part, as a foundling and suffer,

10、 Heathcliff spend his misery childhood and left Wuthering Heights with hate in his heart. The second part tells us that when Heathcliff comes back, he begins his plan as a usurper and avenger. Finally Heathcliff succeed in his plan, but he could never get the love and his life ends. 1. The foundling

11、 and SufferFrom the beginning of the novel and most likely from the beginning of his life, he has suffered pain and rejection. When he is brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw, he is viewed as a thing rather than a child. Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors, while Nelly put it on

12、 the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider, following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. In these formative years, he is deprived of l

13、ove, sociability and education, according to Nelly, Hindleys treatment of Heathcliff was enough to make a fiend of a saint. He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to become a farm hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. Personal

14、ity that Heathcliff develops in his adult life has been formed in response to the deprivation of his childhood. Heathcliff received constant reminder of his lesser status e.g. on his first visit to the Grange, Catherine is taken into the Linton household, whereas Heathcliff is rejected, made fun of,

15、 and alienated. Later, when Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights, her changed appearance further alienates Heathcliff, a point emphasised during the visits of the Linton children, Heathcliff was not considered fit to join the party. The final sense of alienation and the most damning occurs with Ca

16、therines marriage to Edgar, this he considers a betrayal of his love for her, in favor of the social status and civilized existence of the Grange. Heathcliff is however proud and determined and does not cower when confronted by those who consider themselves to be superiors, his determination was evi

17、dent when taking advantage of Mr. Earnshaws favoritism and exchanging horses with young Hindley, though his situation and position is somewhat worsened after the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliffs pride nevertheless remains intact. When Catherine returned to the Heights after her five week stay at t

18、he Grange, she is much changed in appearance and makes fun of the ragged Heathcliff, when ordered to shake hands with Catherine by Hindley, Heathcliff refuses, saying-: I shall not stand to be laughed at, I shall not hear it. Similarly, when insulted by Edgar during one of his visits to the Heights,

19、 Heathcliff empties a tureen of applesauce over himCatherines stay at the Grange precipitates a further decline in Heathcliffs behavior. When she returns he is dirtier than before - I shall be as dirty as I please and I like to be dirty and I will be dirty. Later he confides to Nelly the purpose of

20、his meditations, I am trying to be settling how I shall pay Hindley back. I dont care how long I wait if I can only do it at last - I only wish I new the best way. Let me alone and Ill plan it out, while Im thinking of that, I dont feel pain.The unhappy things he suffered in his childhood played an

21、important role in the formation of his character. Finally, when the realization dawns on him that Catherine has chosen status, wealth and position in preference to him, he disappears for three years and returns in the guise of a gentleman. From then,Heathcliff begins his life as another role.2. The

22、usurper and AvengerThe returning Heathcliff, despite his outwardly civilized facade, was still demonic in air, A half civilized ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and the eyes full of black fire. In describing Heathcliff to Isabella, Catherine sees him as a fierce pitiless wolfish man . and

23、hed crush you like a sparrow. Catherine marks the change in him, his speech has acquired a new hammer blow rhythm, What new phase in his character is this, ponders Catherine. She sees beneath his unreclaimed nature something of his diabolism, and she compares Heathcliff to Hindley, It is as bad as o

24、ffering Satan a bad soul. Your bliss like his lies in inflicting misery.Heathcliffrole as a usurper could be seen from the time when he was brought back to Wuthering Heights .His presence in Wuthering Heights overthrows the prevailing habits of the Earnshaw family, members of the family soon become

25、involved in turmoil and fighting and family relationships become spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason Mr. Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. Nelly recorded From the very beginning he bred bad feelings in the house. Heathcliff usurps the affections of

26、Mr. Earnshaw to the exclusion of young Hindley-: The young master had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend. Such is the extent of Heathcliffs usurpation, which Hindley is sent off to boarding school. As an adult, Heathcliff repeats the process, as he usurps the affections

27、 of Hareton and takes pride in the fact that he would be defended by the son in a fight with the father. Ultimately, Heathcliff parallels the cuckoo in taking over ownership of the Heights, thereby dispossessing the rightful heir, Hareton. Heathcliff destroys the natural familial emotional bonds whi

28、ch previously existed in the Earnshaw household. His presence results in a polarization within the family, at first Mr. Earnshaw and the Catherine become his allies, whereas Hindley becomes his enemy. Heathcliffs dominant personality quickly becomes evident - You must exchange horses with me, I dont

29、 like mine. This incident demonstrates the extent to which Heathcliff has already been hardened and brutalized. The ragged new-comer to Wuthering Heights is an image of a human creature reduced to its bare animal essence, the naked will to live. Nellys comment about Heathcliffs ability to withstand

30、pain supports this point of view, He would withstand Hindleys blows without winking or shedding a tear. Heathcliffs dominant will was being fed by Mr. Earnshaws favoritisms, when he dies this changes, Heathcliff then suffers the tyranny of Hindley. From this point on, the revenge theme begins in the

31、 novel. Heathcliffs recollection of the Grange in Chapter 6 is tied this first inkling of revenge, If I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gale and painting the house front with Hindleys blood. Heathcliffs language at the Grange indicated a malevolent attitude, Ive vociferat

32、ed curses enough to annihilate any fiend in Christendom. Heathcliffs hatred for the Linton family is traceable to this moment - Yet the villain scowls so plainly in his face, would it not be a kindness to the country to hang him at once before he shows his nature in acts as well as in features. Catherines stay at the Grange precipitates a further decline in Heathcliffs behavior. When she returns he is dirtier than befo