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1、呼啸山庄英文版论文 湖北省高等教育自学考试英语专业 毕业论文 题目：简析呼啸山庄中爱情悲剧的必然性 准考证号： 学生：王青翠 指导老师：刘军平 武汉大学外语学院制 2009年10 月Brief Analysis Love Tragedies Inevitability on Wuthering Heights Wang Qingcui Tutor: Liu JunpingOctober 2009论文摘要呼啸山庄才华洋溢的女作家艾米莉勃朗特唯一的小说，在英国十九世纪文坛的灿烂星群中放出独特的、闪着异彩的光芒。它被誉为“19世纪最奇特的小说”、“一出灵魂的戏剧”、“一个女作家所能写出的最好的散文诗

2、”。 真正意义上接触呼啸山庄是在英美文学课上，世人都为希斯克利夫与凯瑟琳那种撕心裂肺的爱而震撼。毛姆认为小说中最感人的就是希斯克利夫和凯瑟琳的爱情，他说“我从未读过像呼啸山庄这样把爱情的痛苦、强烈、残酷描写得如此逼真的小说”。 他们的爱在震撼人的同时有给后人留下了更多的思考。爱情从其在人类精神中形成至今，始终带上了浓郁的悲剧色彩。它的悲剧总是滋生于有它所特有的社会根源与时代的局限性，主人公的个性特点、矛盾的心理是推动其发展的动力。他们的悲剧是一种必然性。本文主要揭示其社会根源与时代的局限性对呼啸山庄中的爱情的重大影响，同时考察了男女主人公在行动上、性格上和对待爱情和婚姻的态度及差异。最终指出他

3、们的爱就像荒原上的北风一样，狂野、暴虐、无所阻挡，完全突破了既有的爱情模式，是超越现实的、非人类的爱情，是注定悲剧的。他们的爱情悲剧是社会的悲剧，是时代的悲剧，也是他们自我所造的悲剧。关键词：呼啸山庄； 艾米莉勃朗特； 爱情悲剧 Abstract Wuthering Heights - the talented English writers only novel. It releases unique, shining and splendid glory in the brilliant literary constellation of the nineteenth century. I

4、t is known as 19th centurys most peculiar novel, a soul of drama and a writer could write the best prose poem. On real significance, its in the Anglo-American literature class that I am familiar with Wuthering Heights. All the people are shocking by this kind piercing love of Heathcliff and Catherin

5、e. Somerset Maugham thinks that the most touching thing in Wuthering Heights is the love of Heathcliff and Catherine. And he said he has never read such a realistic novel as Wuthering Heights that puts the pain, strong and cruel description into love. Their love shocks people, at the same time; it a

6、lso leaves many thoughts to posterity. Love has always been to bring rich colors to the tragedy from its formation of the human spirit. Its tragedy is always there to breed in the characteristic social roots and its limitations of the times, and the heros personality and ambivalence are to promote i

7、ts development. Their tragedy is inevitability. In this paper, it will reveal that the social roots and limitations make quite an impact on Wuthering Heights and it will study the heroes differences in action and attitude towards love and marriage. Finally, it will point out that their love is like

8、the north wind on the moors, wild and violent. And the love which is beyond the realistic breaks through the original model .It is doomed to tragedy. The tragedy is the social tragedy, the times tragedy, but also their self-made tragedy. It is inevitability. Key Words: Wuthering Heights; Emily Bront

9、e; Love Tragedy. Brief Analysis Love Tragedy Inevitability on Wuthering Heights.IntroductionPublished in l847, Emily Brontes masterpiece Wuthering Heights countered with countless unfavorable voices and utterances. For several generations, the Wuthering Heights has been exerting great fascinations o

10、ver its readers. Although Wuthering Heights is her only novel but it certainly proves her genius in rendering captivating description and super passion. It tells a story about love and revenge. In the 19th century, one strange boy named Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights from Liverpool by Mr

11、. Earnshaw. He lives with Earnshaws son Hindley and daughter Catherine. Hindley hates Heathcliff, while Catherine likes him. After Earnshaw died, Hindley becomes the leader of the family and he regards Heathcliff as servant, so Heathcliff is insulted and ill-treated. However, Catherine and Heathclif

12、f become good friends and love each other gradually. Mr. Edgar the next door often visits Wuthering Heights to pursue Catherine and she also shows love to him, too. When she agrees to marry Edgar, Heathcliff goes away with anger. As time goes on, Heathcliff brings love, jealousy, hatred, and revenge

13、 into the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It does not bring him real comfort to ruin other peoples happiness. Heathcliff is immersed in mental pain and eventually he destroys himself and dies of despondent. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Catherine revolt Hindleys punishment and run in the wildernes

14、s. They are lonely children. On this point, they are identical in spirit and soul. When Catherine betrays Heathcliff and marries to Edgar, they lost echo of souls and thus both of them suffer a great pain. Finally, they had no choice but to death to negate the physical separation, in order to achiev

15、e the soul. Their love is associated with the abnormal and the absurd. . Creative background Social origin The love tragedy reflects the social background. The society is the source of the love tragedy. As we all know, Emily Bronte lived in Victorian Times for three decades. Those three decades are

16、the era of unrest society in the United Kingdom. That time, the Industrial Revolution affected all the England, even the whole world: capitalism was developing and increasing exposure to its inherent defects. Followed by a conflict between workers and capitalists, the government had issued a number

17、of laws to protect the interests of the rich, so the gap between rich and poor was growing. The unemployed workers were in poverty and a large number of child labor had been brutally tortured to death. This was followed by the outbreak of the famous Charter of movement, and the British Government to

18、ok high-pressure on democratic struggle and the labor movement. That time, every Englishmans mind was like going through a hurricane, even in north remote areas, the landowners could no longer be like before that had nothing to suffer. Our writer, Emily Bronte, was born in this era of struggle. The

19、authors sources from herself The authors living environment Emily lived in a remote desolate Yorkshire. In the west of the house there was an endless moor, covered with heather. There was also a stale churchyard. She was born in a poor family priest. When she was young, her mother died, and her life

20、 was distress. All of the education was mainly from his father. In order to maintain their livelihood, her old sister Charlotte Bronte, her young sister Anne Bronte and she had to be a teacher, which suffered from humiliation, feeling of discrimination and loneliness. This is her literary source of

21、pessimism. The authors way of lifeThe barren, remote, gloomy and eccentric living environment and the natural silence made Emily isolated. Emily seldom left the gloomy Yorkshire moors that beyond ones imagination. She and her sisters often go to the west of the wilderness to take a walk. But, in add

22、ition to the church and to go walking, she almost goes without leaving home. Its an enclosed environment, making her work show rare originality and send out a fresh and natural authenticity of the artistic charm. When she could not restrain a strong emotional, writing became her only expression of e

23、motion. It was a long time to get the mind for herself since she begun to seek compensation from creativity and imagination. Its the source of Wuthering Heights. The authors personality Emily Bronte was growing up with fathers tough and indifference. She is premature loss of the mothers affection an

24、d protection and should fight back his fathers harsh and cold. Emily has the sense of inferiority, timid and introverted during childhood. She is inept and unwilling to be gregarious. She longs for love, but hasnt love; she desires to be understood, but not to be understood. The way of life above-me

25、ntioned makes her develop the appearance of calm and the inner of firmness. The closed character makes her become depressed, stubborn, headstrong, sullen, and intolerance. She portrays the character of Heathcliff just like herself. She has invested the whole herself to the Heathcliff devoting her st

26、rong passion, anger and non-violent struggle. We can see that Heathcliff is Emilys self-soul. SummaryEmily, who owned a very introverted character, lived in an extremely small space and indulged in fantasies temperament that she gradually indulged in the literary imagination of its own constructed w

27、orld. She suffered from poverty of physical world and helplessness of spiritual world. Loneliness made her the physical and emotional world was full of a sense of extreme disappointment and shattered. In Wuthering Heights, there is no “I”; there is no family schoolmarm and there is no “landlord”. Th

28、ere is “love”; however, it isnt the love between man and woman. Emily is urged by some common views and she put them together in one book from the damaged world.Therefore, Emily desired to express her feeling through the love tragedy of rich and intense fantasy features, and expressed her strong dis

29、satisfaction with social reality. These just created the conditions for the birth of Wuthering Heights.Tragedys Reason3.1 Direct ReasonThe class difference is the direct cause of the class society, which lead to their love tragedy. Living in that society where was full of the view of class differenc

30、es, Catherine and Heathcliffs tragic fate was inevitable. They were destined to become the victims of class society.Catherine and Heathcliff had to bear the oppressed from the Mansions. Catherine was the daughter of Wuthering Heights, and Heathcliff was a gypsy boy, who was abandoned from his early

31、age. They are in the different status. The class difference is the first Mansions. Catherine failed to break through it. The next Mansion is Hindley. Hindley could do whatever he wanted to do, because Catherine and Heathcliff who were the subordinate status and were in the low level. They had no pro

32、perty and no right to choose, therefore, in the fight against the tyranny of Hindley, they were closed to the other. Catherine said, I am Heathcliff. However, in the society which full of prejudice and strong sense of class differences, this kind of love was fragile and Catherine realized their poor social status and eventually married to Edgar. For Catherine, the only way out was to comply with social values and married to a man who had almost the same status with h