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1、呼啸山庄 论文Analysis Images of Heathcliff about Moral and Arts in Wuthering HeightsName: Zhao Yucong No.: 20085061066English Major School of Foreign LanguagesSupervisor:Zhao Qin Title: InstuctorAbstract: Wuthering Heights deals mainly with the whole life of Heathcliff, a gipsy waif of unknown parentage,

2、picked up by M r. Earnshaw in the street and brought up with his children. Heathcliff is treated well by Earnshaw, but when the old man dies,the young master Hindley always bullies and insults him. Hindly drives him from their company to the servant and insists that he should labour out of door, com

3、pelling him to do s as hard as any hand on the farm. Heathcliff falls passionately in love with Catherine, Hindley sister, who loves him but thinks it would degrade her to marry him. Heathcliff finding it impossible for him to be united to Catherine, escapes from Wuthering Heights. Three years later

4、, Heathcliff returns to Wutherine Heights with money and the trapping of a gentleman. When he finds Catherine has been married Edgar Linton, he seeks his revenge. Heathcliff marries Edgars young sister Isabella and ,not loving her, treats her cruelly. Catherine dies with Heathcliffs violent love aft

5、er giving birth to Edgars daughter, Cathy.In revenge of Hindleys cruel treatment of himself in his childhood, Heathcliff turned him into drunkard and gambler and won all his possessions. At the same time, Heathcliff makes Hindleys son, Hareton, under his control and treats him brutally. Then he forc

6、es Edgars daughter Cathy to marry his own son Linto in order to seize the estate of Edgar. After that, Heathcliff lives painfully in longing for Catherine every day. After Heathcliff dies, Cathy and Hareton, the two young lovers, lives in Thrushcross Grange happily. Later a little boy declares he ha

7、s seen the ghosts of the Heathcliff and Catherine walking on the moor.Key Words: The oppressed; Oppressor ; Catherine; love; revenge; Wuthering Heights; Thrushcross Grange;摘要：呼啸山庄主要讲述得是关于希次克里夫的故事，他是一个不知出身得吉普赛流浪儿，在街上被老恩萧先生收养并被抚养长大。老恩萧先生对希次克里夫很好，但是这位老人死后，山庄的新主人亨德利总是欺辱希次克里夫。亨德利将希次克里夫降为仆人并坚持他应该出门劳作，同时强迫

8、他在农场里从事所有艰辛的手工工作。希次克里夫深深地爱上了亨德利的妹妹凯瑟琳，凯瑟琳虽然爱希次克里夫，却认为嫁给他有失身份。而希次克里夫发现他不可能和凯瑟琳在一起就从呼啸山庄逃走了。三年后，希次克里夫成为了一个有钱又体面的绅士，并回到了呼啸山庄。当他发现凯瑟琳已经嫁给了埃德加林顿,他便开始报复他们。希次克里夫娶了他不爱的人埃德加的妹妹伊莎贝拉，并且经常虐待她。凯瑟琳在女儿凯西出生后就带着对希次克里夫的烈爱死去了。为了报复亨德利的虐待，希次克里夫将亨德利变成了酒鬼和赌鬼，并赢了他所有的财产。而且希次克里夫压迫并虐待亨德利的儿子哈里顿，强迫埃德加的女儿凯西嫁给他的儿子小林顿，以获取埃德加的遗产。成功

9、之后，希次克里夫每天都痛苦地活在对凯瑟琳的思念中。他死后，相爱的凯西和哈里顿幸福的生活在画眉山庄。后来，有个男孩声称他曾经见到希次克里夫和凯瑟琳的鬼魂在旷野漫步。关键字：压迫者;被压迫者;爱;报复;呼啸山庄; 画眉山庄Introduction:Emily Bronte (18181848) was a British novelist and poet. In the opinion of many critics, Emily was the most gifted of the three Bronte sisters.Emily was born in the heyday in Vic

10、torian era, not only in economy but also in culture. During Victorian era, capitalism exposes its inherent contradictions, which caused a lot of people life down. Brontes lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. Emily lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She worshiped et

11、ernal spirit of nature rather than human religion. She understood the society in her own unique way. She suffered poverty in physical, loneliness and disappointment in spiritual. Her emotion world was full of extreme sense of disappointment expressed through the rich, strong tragic love.Strong will,

12、 independence, personality and passion can be seen in Emily. She was gifted in create and has her own imagination. Charlotte Bronte had said high in Emily,“Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.”Emily believed deeply the indissoluble nature in earthly love, which was evid

13、enced in Wuthering Heights. Emilys took painstaking efforts to descript the image of Heathcliff to express her indignation, sympathy and ideal.Wuthering heights ,Emils only novel, is best known as one of ten novels in UK. the novel was not accepted but derogated severely at beginning. Until the 20th

14、 century, people began to focus on humanity topic literature, so gradually realize the art originality of the novel. Wuthering Heights, the great novel of Emily Bronte, is an amalgamation of childhood fantasies, friendship, romance, and revenge. But this story is not a simple story of revenge, it ha

15、s more profound implications. As Arnold Kettle, an English critic, said, Wuthering Heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art of the stresses and tensions and conflicts, personal and spiritual, of nineteenth-century capitalist society.”Analysis Moral Image of HeathcliffHeathcliff was c

16、haracterized in evil, cruel, selfish and so on. He had suffered from loneliness, hopelessness, coldness, mockery and scorn since he was born. First, Heathcliff was evil to Catherine .As we all know, Heathcliff was an orphan. He had worn out faces before brought up by Mr. Earnshaw. He was poor both i

17、n material and spirit. It was Catherine, an enthusiastic, lovely girl, that opened his heart. Catherine was Heathcliffs only company when he was a child, giving him warmth and happiness. When Hindley bullied Heathcliff, Catherine protected him. They fell in love with each other. When Heathcliff was

18、degraded from Earnshaws company to a servant, he had nothing even dignity. Whats more, Catherine had betrayed him when she faced the choice between the true love and reputation. Her decision to marry Edgar Linton hurt Heathcliff deeply and inverted his strong love into intense hatred. The bitter hat

19、red formed Heathcliff screwy personality: brutality, mercilessness and harshness. Three years later, Heathcliff became a devil with wealth and power and returned to Wuthering Heights. He wanted to revenge what he had received from Linton and Catherines betray for their love. Their being-together was

20、 the beginning of the torment. His appearance and marry to Isabella made Catherines life never peaceful, made her collapsed not only in physical but also in mind, just because Isabella still loved him deeply. Second, Heathcliff was so hurt that he couldnt forgive Hindly and Edgar. He was evilly deli

21、ght in revenging and ruining what he bitterly hated in mind. Heathcliff racked his mind to scheme the evil plan to destroy Hindly and Edgars happy life. This plan had continued a long time until the people he born revenge died. Hindley mocked at and abused Heathcliff in his childhood. Hindley degrad

22、ed Heathcliffs value and made him poor. Hindleys oppression is one of the reasons form Heathcliffs revenge. In punishment Hindleys ill-treatment, Heathcliff controlled entirely Hindley and his son Hareton. He seduced Hindley into a drunkard and gambler and in this way to win all his possessions. So

23、Hindleys son Hareton, who should be the master in the neighborhood, was reduced to in a state of completely depended on his fathers inveterate enemy and lived in his own house as a servant, was deprived of all possessions and treated brutally. Heathcliff took the veils off his adversary and destroye

24、d utterly in Hindleys life , even innocent peoples life.Edgar had high social position and wealth which Heathcliff had never enjoyed before. Heathcliff was gloomy to run away from Wuthering Heights. Perhaps in Heathcliffs opinion, Edgar was the obstacle of his love. He hated Edgars robbing his lover

25、 and made his life full of great hysteric pain. Heathcliff married Edgars young sister Isabella and began to scheme to owned their assets. Heathcliff had ever said ,“I forgive what you( Catherine) have done to me, I love my murdererbut yours, how can I”(1), the hate was full filled in his heart beca

26、use of Catherines death. Then he forced Edgars daughter Cathy to marry his own dying son so he can owned the Thrushcross Grange of the Lintons.Third, Heathcliff was cruel to his own family. He didnt love his wife, Isabella, even hated her, however, he could pretend loving her and showed deceitful de

27、sire before they got married just because he was eager to see Catherines being heart-broken by using the marriage of Isabella. As soon as they got married, Heathcliff exposed his evil nature. He promised that Isabella should be Edgars proxy and she deserved this kind of suffering. Because of their m

28、arriage, Isabellas elder brother Edgar dropped intercommunication between them so Isabella lost her support. At that time, Isabella was seriously ill-treated and had nobody to tell her bitterness. Heathcliff destroyed Isabella who loved him in full heart. As a husband, Heathcliff didnt take responsi

29、bilities for her wife, even when his wife gave birth to his son, he didnt care for them. He didnt care about his son until he wanted to take use of him as a tool to proceed his revenge.Heathcliff failed to be a father. He could only find Lintons faults and showed scorn at him. He controlled and made

30、 use of Lintons love to achieve personal revenge, not considering Lintons intense anguish. He always threatened his son to let him in feeling of fear and obey his orders unconditionally. Heathcliff just feed his son and never gave warmth to his son. For Heathcliff, family didnt mean warmth and kinsh

31、ip but as a tool to realize his evil plan. Heathcliff was a selfish man who could proceed his own desire by any means. To vent his resentment to Earnshaws and Lintons, he took use of his wife and son doubtlessly. His revenge destroyed the two families even their after-generration. Heathcliff made hi

32、s whole life to proceed the avenge on those people who he thought destroyed hia life. For all the people, it was Heathcliff that destroyed their life in return. His crazy revenge destroyed everyone, including himself. From the process of revenge, Heathcliff, from the oppressed became into oppressor. But he didnt get happiness though he destroyed all peoples life. It was the love he born for Catherine. One could not be happy to heart the people he deeply loved; the process to heart the betrayal lover is also a process to heart himself. Analysis the factors that build up Heathcliffs evilWe