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呼啸山庄英文带翻译经典语录呼啸山庄英文带翻译经典语录《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家勃朗特姐妹之一艾米莉·勃朗特的作品,是19世纪英国文学的代表作之一今天小编把书中的经典语录整理出来,奉献给大家,让我们从经典中记住经典,从经典中回味那些曾经感动我们的经典语录。
呼啸山庄经典语录never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man,all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, −− Wait and hope.永远不要忘记,直至天主垂允为人类揭示未来图景的那一天来到之前,人类的全部智慧就包含在这五个字里面:等待和希望。
《基督山伯爵》But we will not admit that our modern artistic claim to absolute originality is really a claim to absolute unsociability; a claim to absolute loneliness.但我们不会承认,我们的现代艺术声称绝对原创绝对是一个真正的孤僻要求;一个绝对孤独的索赔。
《雾都孤儿》if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal — as we are! ’ -------如果上帝赐予我财富和美貌,我会使你难于离开我,就像现在我难于离开你。
They lifted their eyes together, to encounter Mr. Heathcliff: perhaps you have never remarked that their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw. The present Catherine has no other likeness to her, except a breadth of forehead, and a certain arch of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty, whether she will or not. With Hareton the resemblance is carried farther: it is singular at all times, then it was particularly striking, because his senses were alert, and his mental faculties wakened to unwonted activity. I suppose this resemblance disarmed Mr. Heathcliff: he walked to the hearth in evident agitation, but it quickly subsided as he looked at the young man: or, I should say, altered its characters for it was there yet. He took the book from his hand,and glanced at the open page, then returned it without any observation;merely signing Catherine away: her companion lingered very little behind her, and I was about to depart also, but he bid me sit still.他们俩同时抬起眼睛,看到了希斯克利夫先⽣。
(呼啸山庄)Wuthering-Heights-英文介绍及赏析第一篇:(呼啸山庄)Wuthering-Heights-英文介绍及赏析呼啸山庄Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Today, Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature, and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century.Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear.But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety.The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted.And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love storiesin all of literature.Analysis of Major Characters Heathcliff Wuthering Heights centers around the story of Heathcliff.The first paragraph of the novel provides a vivid physical picture of him, as Lockwood describes how his “black eyes” withdraw suspiciously under his brows at Lockwood’s approach.Nelly’s story begins with his introduction into the Earnshaw family, his vengeful machinations drive the entire plot, and his death ends the book.The desire to understand him and his motivations has kept countless readers engaged in the novel.Heathcliff, however, defies being understood, and it is difficult for readers to resist seeing what they want or expect to see in him.The novel teases the reader with the possibility that Heathcliff is something other than what he seems—that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Catherine, or that his sinister behaviors serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero.We expect Heathcliff’s character to contain such a hidden virtue because he resembles a hero in a romance novel.Traditionally, romance novel heroes appear dangerous, brooding, and cold at first, only later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving.One hundred years before Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, the notion that “a reformed rake makes the best husband” was already a cliché of romantic literature, and romance novels center around the same cliché to this day.However, Heathcliff does not reform, and his malevolence proves so great and long-lasting that it cannot be adequately explained even as a desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine, Edgar, etc.As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.Critic Joyce Carol Oates argues that Emily Brontë does the same thing to the reader that Heathcliff does to Isabella, testingto see how many times the reader can be shocked by Heathcliff’s gratuitous violence and still, masochistically, insist on seeing him as a romantic hero.呼啸山庄It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool.When Brontë composed her book, in the 1840s, the English economy was severely depressed, and the conditions of the factory workers in industrial areas like Liverpool were so appalling that the upper and middle classes feared violent revolt.Thus, many of the more affluent members of society beheld these workers with a mixture of sympathy and fear.In literature, the smoky, threatening, miserable factory-towns were often represented in religious terms, and compared to hell.The poet William Blake, writing near the turn of the nineteenth century, speaks of England’s “dark Satanic Mills.” Heathcliff, of course, is frequently compared to a demon by the other characters in the book.Considering this historical context, Heathcliff seems to embody the anxieties that the book’s upper-and middle-class audience had about the working classes.The reader may easily sympathize with him when he is powerless, as a child tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw, but he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman.This corresponds with the ambivalence the upper classes felt toward the lower classes—the upper classes had charitable impulses toward lower-class citizens when they were miserable, but feared the prospect of the lower classes trying to escape their miserable circumstances by acquiring political, social, cultural, or economic power.Catherine The location of Catherine’s coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life.She is not buried in the chapel with the Lintons.Nor isher coffin placed among the tombs of the Earnshaws.Instead, as Nelly describes in Chapter XVI, Catherine is buried “in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor.” Moreover, she is buried with Edgar on one side and Heathcliff on the other, suggesting her conflicted loyalties.Her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons’, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar.However, she is also motivated by impulses that prompt her to violate social conventions—to love Heathcliff, throw temper tantrums, and run around on the moor.Edgar Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s.Edgar is born and raised a gentleman.He is graceful, well-mannered, and instilled with civilized virtues.These qualities cause Catherine to choose Edgar over Heathcliff and thus to initiate the contention between the men.Nevertheless, Edgar’s gentlemanly qualities ultimately prove useless in his ensuing rivalry with Heathcliff.Edgar is particularly humiliated by his confrontation with Heathcliff in Chapter XI, in which he openly shows his fear of fighting Heathcliff.Catherine, having witnessed the scene, taunts him, saying, “Heathcliff would as soon lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of mice.” As the reader can see from the earli est descriptions of Edgar as a spoiled child, his refinement is tied to his helplessness and impotence.Charlotte Brontë, in her preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, refers to Edgar as “an example of constancy and tenderness,” and goes on to su ggest that her sister Emily was using Edgar to point out that such characteristics constitute true virtues in all human beings, and not just in women, as society tended to believe.However, Charlotte’s readingseems influenced by her own feminist agenda.Edg ar’s inability to counter Heathcliff’s vengeance, and his naïve belief on his deathbed in his daughter’s safety and happiness, make him a weak, if sympathetic, characterThemes, MotifsThemes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual.The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do.Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation.Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal呼啸山庄characters.As members of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a somewhat precarious place within the hierarchy of late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century British society.At the top of British society was the royalty, followed by the aristocracy, then by the gentry, and then by the lower classes, who made up the vast majority of the population.Although the gentry, or upper middle class, possessed servants and often large estates, they held a nonetheless fragile social position.The socialstatus of aristocrats was a formal and settled matter, because aristocrats had official titles.Members of the gentry, however, held no titles, and their status was thus subject to change.A man might see himself as a gentleman but find, to his embarrassment, that his neighbors did not share this view.A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as how much land he owned, how many tenants and servants he had, how he spoke, whether he kept horses and a carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”—gentlemen scorned banking and commercial activities.Considerations of class status often crucially inform the characters’ motivations in Wuthering Heights.Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood” is only the most obvious example.The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their behaviors.The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially.They do not have a carriage, they have less land, and their house, as Lockwood remarks with great puzzlement, resembles that of a “homely, northern farmer” and not that of a gentleman.The shifting nature of social status is demonstrated most strikingly in Heathcliff’s trajectory from homeless waif to young gentleman-by-adoption to common laborer to gentleman again(although the status-conscious Lockwood remarks that Heathcliff is only a gentleman in “dress and manners”).第二篇:呼啸山庄英文赏析Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionateCatherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Theref ore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily,restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,”meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictabl e “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotionexisted among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.第三篇:呼啸山庄英文赏析[定稿]Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature.As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff.These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness.On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story en ded with Heathcliff’s suicide.He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine.He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature.It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless.This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope.Th erefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel.According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us.Sometimes it was the moor full ofclouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind.The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton.In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change.Early in thenovel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change.In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar.Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story.It made Heathcliff change his love to hate.After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge.He successfully attained his objective.Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships.This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the specialenvironment and his special character.Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredic table “strange book”.The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age.It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge.It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.第四篇:呼啸山庄英文读后感呼啸山庄英文读后感The book,Wuthering Heihts written in 1847,by Emily Bronte.It is a very good novel.The story in this novel deeply moved everyone who had read it and the structure of this novel is very fresh.At first I will tell you the main plot about Wuthering Heights.The story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw Family, who had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights.Described the love and enmity between Earnshaw and Linton’s family, especially Heathcliff and Catherine’s deeply love.Heathcliff is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw.Heathcliff is treated asEarnshaw’s own children, Catherine and Hindley.Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley after Earnshaw death and his lover Catherine marries Edgar Linton for many factors.This made Heathcliff mad, his destructive force is unleashed and his first victim is his beloved, Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine(Kathy).Edgar’s sister, whom he had married, flees tothe south.Their son Linton and Kathy are married, but always sickly Linton dies.After that, Hareton, Hindley’s son and the young widow fall in love.Increasinglyisolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine.The story is wonderful, and the structure is also extremely excellent.The author Emily Bronte use a series of flashbacks and time shifts draws a powerful picture of this story.Because of its wonderful story, excellent structure and graceful language, the book left a deep impression on me.From this book, we understand the deeply love and enmity.We find that the enmity always touched by deeply love at the end of the story, true feelings and true love always moved everyone.So we must treat others with true feeling s.That’s all I want to say about Wuthering Heights.It’s really a good book.Readers will really gain much from this book.|第五篇:《呼啸山庄》英文读后感《呼啸山庄》英文读后感Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure.It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership.And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back.Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers.It is not a pretty love story;rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness.Itis cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant.And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback.After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights.It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a Gipsy child who he named Heathcliff.And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she.But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station.She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to get into;the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting.But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations.Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her callingto him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself.Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe.Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again。
呼啸山庄英文带翻译的经典台词呼啸山庄英文带翻译的经典台词《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家勃朗特姐妹之一艾米莉·勃朗特的作品,是19世纪英国文学的代表作之一今天小编把书中的精彩片段中整理出来,奉献给大家,让我们从经典中记住经典,从经典中回味那些曾经感动我们的经典台词。
精彩片段一Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees. I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us. This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre. I felt my heels and coat-laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re-establishing peace.为了不和它们的犬牙接触,我一动不动的坐着.但是,以为他们不懂非言语的冒犯,我非常不幸地对它们三个大胆的挤眉弄眼,做鬼脸,而我某个面部表情的改变是如此的惹闹了这么女士,以至于它突然非常狂怒的跳上我的膝盖.我把它猛推回去,并快速的把我们两个隔在桌子之间.这个过程就跟捅了马蜂窝似的:半打不同体形,不同年龄的四脚朋友都露出犬牙走到了中间来.我觉得我的脚后跟和衣摆都是容易受到攻击的地方,我极力的用拨火棍的驱赶大的,并被迫大声求救,希望房子的主人快来恢复这里的平静.Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second fasterthan usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping. Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more dispatch: a lusty dame, with tucked-up gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan:and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.希斯克利夫先生和他的仆人爬出地窖,他们的速度真是让人头疼,我觉得他们没有比平时快一秒钟,尽管屋子是绝对的惊惶和犬吠.幸亏厨房里的人出来了的比较快,一位健壮的女士,长袍的袖子卷着,露出胳膊,双颊被火烤的.红红的,她冲到我们中间,挥舞着她的煎锅,用她的武器和呵斥驱赶狗群,暴乱奇迹般的平息了.但是当她的主人进来的时候,她仍然挥动着她的锅,就像刚刚经过大风的海面一样.精彩片段二The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in knee- breeches and gaiters. Such an individual seated in his arm-chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at the right time after dinner. But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark- skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman: that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire:rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure; and rather morose. Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by instinct, his reserve springs froman aversion to showy displays of feeling - to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again. No, I'm running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him. Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me. Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.有这样一个主人:一个普通的北方农民,一张古板的脸,一双被绑腿马裤衬托得尤为粗壮的腿,那么房子和家具也就没有什么特别之处了,而且在五六英里外的山上,如果你去的时间恰巧是午饭之后的话,你可以看见他坐在他的扶手椅上,一杯冒着泡沫的啤酒放在他前面的圆桌上.然而希斯克利夫先生却和他的住所和生活方式有着鲜明的对比.他的面容,是一个深肤色的吉普赛人;他的衣着和他的言谈举止,是一个绅士,至少有像其他的乡绅所表现出来的绅士风度:相当散漫,但是他不修边幅的样子还没有到不能忍受的地步,因为他的身材挺拔,外表英俊,只是郁郁寡欢.有可能,有人会把他的态度当作是缺少教养的傲慢,然而我内心同情的只觉却告诉我并不是那么一回事.我的只觉告诉我,他的沉默源于他对张扬感情DD互相表示亲热的,友好的厌恶.他默默的爱,默默的恨,却又把被爱和被恨看作是不合时宜的事情.不,我说得太多了,我把自己得喜好强加于他.在见到一个准熟人的时,而把手收起来,希斯克利夫先生可能有完全不同于我的理由.让我期望我的作风总是非常特别:我亲爱的妈妈曾经说过我永远也不会有一个舒适的家;就在去年夏天,我就证实了我的确不配有一个舒适的家.While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea-coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me. I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, themerest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks. And what did I do? I confess it with shame - shrunk icily into myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and, overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded her mamma to decamp.当我在海滨享受好天气的那个月,我遇见了一个非常迷人的同伴.在我看来简直就是女神,即便她根本就没有注意到我.我并没有把我的爱意说出来,然而,如果看也是语言的话,那个笨苯的傻瓜可能已经猜出我深陷其中.她最终还是明白了我的意思,并对我回萌一望DD这是可以想象到的最甜美的一望.而我做了什么呢?说出来非常羞愧DD 我又退缩成冰冷的我,就像蜗牛一样缩了回去,每一瞥都让我退缩得更远,更冷漠.直到最后,这个可怜的无辜的人儿开始怀疑她自己的感觉,深陷与她所想的误解的谜团之中,于是她说服她的妈妈和她一起匆匆离去.精彩片段三1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven:and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.1801-我刚刚拜访了我的房东--一个孤独的且将给我带来麻烦的邻居.这的确是非常漂亮的乡村!在英格兰,我认为找不到比这更远离社会喧嚣的地方了.这里是隐居者的完美天堂,而分享这里的荒芜,希斯克利夫先生和我是再好不过的一对了.一个绝好的家伙!当我站起来,迎着他那双眉下闪烁着怀疑的目光时,他低估了我内心的热忱.当我自报家门时,他没有伸出手来,而是深深的插进他的马甲里,非常警惕.精彩片段四Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling. 'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed:one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong:the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.呼啸山庄是希斯克利夫先生住处的名字.“呼啸是一个寓意很深的地方性形容词,用来描述暴风雨天气中的狂风大作的声音.诚然,狂风肯定经常驻足再这里,通过房子一侧的那些过于倾斜的矮小的冷杉,还有那一排憔悴的荆棘,它们的分支的伸向一侧,仿佛在渴求阳光,我们就可以猜想一下北风刮过房檐的力量.所幸的是,建筑师很有远见的将房子建的很坚固:窄窄的玻璃嵌在墙里,墙角都是额外用大石头加固过的.Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date '1500,' and the name 'Hareton Earnshaw.' I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting thepenetralium.在跨进门槛前,一组图案离奇的雕刻,让我驻足观赏,雕刻布满了整个正面,正门上的那个尤为特别.在正门上,在一群狮身鹰首的怪兽和不知害羞的男孩子中,我发现了日期“1500”,还有一个名字“海尔顿?艾尔肖”.我本应该作出一些评论,并询问一下这位乖戾的主人关于这个地方的简短历史,然而他在门口态度要求我要么赶快进屋,要么赶紧走人,而我也不愿意在看到密室之前惹恼他.精彩片段五One step brought us into the family sitting-room, without any introductory lobby or passage: they call it here 'the house' pre- eminently. It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter:at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls. One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof. The latter had never been under-drawn: its entire anatomy lay bare to an inquiring eye, except where a frame of wood laden with oatcakes and clusters of legs of beef, mutton, and ham, concealed it. Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols:and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge. The floor was of smooth, white stone; the chairs, high-backed, primitive structures, painted green: one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and otherdogs haunted other recesses.一步就跨进到了起居室,没有会客室或是走道,这就是他们所谓的典型的“屋子”,通常包括厨房和起居室(parlour:(old-fashioned) a room in a private house for sitting in, entertaining visitors, etc.).但是我认为,在呼啸山庄,厨房已经被被挤到另一个角落里去了.至少在尽里头,我听见了火苗劈劈啪啪的声音,还有厨房用具的碰撞声;然而在那个巨大的壁炉上,我并没有发现任何烤、煮或烘焙的迹象;也没有在墙上发现闪亮的铜制炖锅和锡制滤勺.另一头,巨大的橡木橱柜里陈列着极好的锡J餐具,一摞一摞的都到橱顶了,折射出了非常壮观的光和热量,其间点缀着银制的水壶和酒杯.橱柜的顶没有封起来,木架结构清晰可见,让人觉得非常奇怪.风干了的燕麦饼,牛肉,羊肉还有火腿都直接挂在上面,也就遮掩了裸露出来的木头.烟囱上挂着各式各样的锈了的老式枪,以及一对马上用的大型短枪.为了起到装饰作用,三个涂得很俗气得罐子,陈列在壁架上.地板是平滑的白色石头.椅子,是高背椅,结构粗糙,被漆成了绿色,还有一两把深黑色的隐藏在阴影里.在橱柜的拱门下面,睡着一只巨大的,深褐色的母猎狗,身边围着一群嗷嗷待哺的小狗仔,其他的狗则隐藏在别处.。
呼啸山庄:Chapter15第十五章又过了一个星期——我更接近了健康和春天!我现在已经听完了我的邻人的全部历史,因为这位管家可以从比较重要的工作中腾出空闲常来坐坐。
我要用她自己的话继续讲下去,只是压缩一点。
总的说,她是一个说故事的能手,我可不认为我能把她的风格改得更好。
晚上,(她说):就是我去山庄的那天晚上,我知道希刺克厉夫先生又在附近,就像是我看到了他;我不出去,因为我还把他的信搁在口袋里,而且不愿再被吓唬或被揶揄了。
我决定现在不交这信,一直等到我主人到什么地方去后再说,因为我拿不准凯瑟琳收到这信后会怎么样。
结果是,这信过了三天才到她的手里。
第四天是星期日,等到全家都去教堂后,我就把信带到她屋里。
还有一个男仆留下来同我看家。
我们经常在做礼拜时把门锁住,可是那天天气是这么温暖宜人,我就把门都大开,而且,我既然知道谁会来,为了履行我的诺言,我就告诉我的同伴的说女主人非常想吃桔子,他得跑到村里去买几个,明天再付钱。
他走了,我就上了楼。
林惇夫人穿着一件宽大的白衣服,和往常一样,坐在一个敞开着窗子的凹处,肩上披着一条薄薄的肩巾。
她那厚厚的长发在她初病时曾剪去一点,现在她简单地梳梳,听其自然地披在她的鬓角和颈子上。
正如我告诉过希刺克厉夫的一样,她的外表是改变了;但当她是宁静的时候,在这种变化中仿佛具有非凡的美。
她眼里的亮光已经变成一种梦幻的、忧郁的温柔;她的眼睛不再给人这种印象:她是在望着她四周的东西;而是显现出总是在凝视着远方,遥远的地方——你可以说是望着世外。
还有她脸上的苍白——她恢复之后,那种憔悴的面貌是消失了——还有从她心境中所产生的特别表情,虽然很凄惨地暗示了原因,却使她格外令人爱怜;这些现象——对于我,我知道,对于别的看见她的人都必然认为——足以反驳那些说是正在康复的明证,却标明她是注定要凋谢了。
一本书摆在她面前的窗台上,打开着,简直令人感觉不到的风间或掀动着书页。
我相信是林惇放在那儿的:因为她从来不想读书,或干任何事,他得花上许多钟头来引她注意那些以前曾使她愉快的事物。
《呼啸山庄》简介1801年,洛克乌先生来到山庄拜访希克厉先生,要租下他的画眉山庄,希克厉先生对他很粗暴,还有一群恶狗向他发起进攻。
但他还是又一次造访希克厉先生,他遇到了行为粗俗,不修边幅的英俊少年哈里顿恩肖,和貌美的希克厉先生之子的遗孀。
由于天黑又下雪希克厉先生不得不留他住了下来,夜里他做了一个奇怪的梦,梦见树枝打在窗齿打碎玻璃,想折断外头的树枝,可手指却触到一双冰凉的小手,一个幽灵似的啜泣声乞求他放她进来。
她说她叫卡瑟琳·恩萧,已经在这游荡了20年了,她想闯进来,吓得洛克乌失声大叫。
希克厉先生闻声赶来,让洛克乌出去,他自己扑倒在床上,哭着叫起来:“卡茜,来吧!啊,来呀,再来一次!啊,我心中最亲爱的!卡瑟琳,最后一次!”可窗外毫无声息,一阵冷风吹灭了蜡烛。
第二天,洛克乌先生来到画眉山庄,向女管家艾伦迪恩问起此事,女管家便讲了发生在呼啸山庄的事情。
呼啸山庄已有300年的历史,以前的主人欧肖夫妇从街头捡来一个吉普赛人的弃儿,收他做养子,这就是希克厉。
希克厉一到这家就受到才先生的儿子享德莱的欺负和虐待,可享德莱的妹妹卡瑟琳却与希克厉疯狂地相爱了。
老主人死了之后,已婚的享德莱成了呼啸山庄的主人。
他开始阻止希克厉和卡瑟琳的交往,并把希克厉赶到田里去干活,不断地差辱他,折磨他,他变得不近人情,近乎痴呆,卡瑟琳也变得野性十足。
一次,他们到画眉山庄去玩,卡瑟琳被狗咬伤,主人林敦夫妇知道她是欧肖家的孩子,就热情地留她养伤,而把希克厉当成坏小子赶跑了。
卡瑟琳和林敦的儿子埃德加、女儿伊莎贝拉成了好朋友。
卡瑟琳住了五个长星期回来后,变成温文尔雅,仪态万方的富家小姐。
当他再次见到希克厉时,生怕他弄脏了自己的衣服。
希克厉的自尊心受到了伤害,他说:“我愿意怎么脏,就怎么脏。
”他发誓要对享德莱进行报复,他心中的野性和愤恨全部对准享德莱。
1778年6月,享德莱的妻子生下哈里顿恩肖后因肺病死去,亨德莱受了很大的打击,从此变得更加残忍,更加冷酷无情。
英文呼啸山庄故事梗概《呼啸山庄》是英国著名作家艾米莉·勃朗特创作的一部长篇小说,出版于1847年。
该小说以19世纪英国乡村为背景,讲述了两个家族之间的纷争和爱情之间的挣扎。
下面是该小说的简要梗概。
故事背景故事发生在英国北部,讲述了乡村史上两个家族之间的恩怨。
其中,一个家族在山上建立自己的房屋,成为呼啸山庄,而另一个家族则住在山脚下的平地上。
故事情节故事开始,我们见到了一位名叫莎士比·埃尔登(Mr. Lockwood)的伦敦绅士正在为他新买的房子找租客。
终于,他找到了一个名叫希翠尔(Heathcliff)的人,他愿意在那里住一段时间。
希翠尔是一个神秘的人物,大家不知道他来自哪里,他的背景和成长经历都被保密。
随着故事的发展,我们发现了希翠尔和另一个名叫卡瑟琳(Catherine)的女孩之间的爱情故事。
卡瑟琳是呼啸山庄的女主人,而希翠尔则是一个孤儿,在她家做工。
两个人很快就相爱了,但卡瑟琳选择嫁给了另一个人,名叫爱德加(Edgar)。
希翠尔因为卡瑟琳的婚姻而心碎,他离开了呼啸山庄。
他通过商业活动变得非常富有,返回呼啸山庄后,他利用自己的财富和权势,摆布和控制了卡瑟琳的家人,将其儿子吸收为其养子,也将进入旧居的卡瑟琳的侄女卡瑟琳·厄肯肖(Cathy Earnshaw)变成了一位舞蹈家。
他们之间的恩怨不断升级,导致了两个家族之间的冲突和争斗,这个历时一生的恩怨甚至遗留下了下一代人。
此后,故事中发生了一系列悲惨事件,涉及到亲人的死亡、家族的荣耀损失以及个人的背叛和孤独。
最终,希翠尔死于疾病,而卡瑟琳死于分娩后的感染。
两个家族最终和解了,他们意识到他们之间的纷争只会越来越毫无意义。
故事的结尾,我们看到了两个互相嘲讽的人物,他们来自两个家族,经历了这一切之后,他们在起床前外出走了一段路,这里再次阐释了艾米丽·勃朗特的小说主题:爱与复仇,人类内心最深的强烈情感,以及战争与和平之间的绝妙变化。
英文呼啸山庄故事梗概Wuthering Heights Story SynopsisWuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Bronte, first published in 1847. The story is set in the Yorkshire moors and follows the lives of the Earnshaw and Linton families. The main characters are Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Isabella Linton.The novel begins with Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, renting a house near Wuthering Heights. He becomes curious about his landlord, Heathcliff, and decides to visit Wuthering Heights. There, he meets Heathcliff and is intrigued by the mysterious and brooding man.Heathcliff tells Mr. Lockwood the story of his past. He was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, and raised alongside his children, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine and Heathcliff develop a deep bond, but Hindley despises Heathcliff and treats him cruelly.Catherine eventually falls in love with Edgar Linton, a wealthy neighbor, and decides to marry him despite her love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff is heartbroken and leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and vengeful man.Heathcliff seeks revenge on Hindley and Edgar for the way they treated him and tries to win back Catherine, who is now married to Edgar. The story is filled with passion, betrayal, and revenge as Heathcliff and Catherine's love for each other transcends death.The novel explores themes of love, revenge, and the destructive power of passion. It is a dark and haunting tale that has captivated readers for generations. Wuthering Heights is a classic of English literature and continues to be a beloved and enduring story.。
呼啸山庄英文赏析[定稿]第一篇:呼啸山庄英文赏析[定稿]Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature. As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff. These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility. Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness. On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation. Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide. He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine. He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature. It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless. This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope. Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel. According to the clue, the author arranged anunpredictable scene for us. Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind. The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and change. Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change. In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole story. It made Heathcliff change his love to hate. After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge. He successfully attained his objective. Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships. This kind of crazy revenge clearlyshowed his uncommon and rebellious behavior.This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character. Heathcliff’s love tragedy w as a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable "strange book". The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age. It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge. It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.第二篇:呼啸山庄英文赏析Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world literature. As a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature. In Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and Heathcliff. These characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of civility. Wuthering Heights symbolized a similar wildness. On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation. Wuthering heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible events.The story ended with Heathcliff’s suicide. He died for love and his death shows his love to Katherine. He gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that youngCatherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in nature. It was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him become brutal and heartless. This kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some hope. Therefore, Heathcliff’s change of “love---hate---revenge---a recovery of humanity” is no t only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole novel. According to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for us. Sometimes it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and wind. The story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible atmosphere.The novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and Harleton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s lov e story is that it involves growth and change. Early in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he becomes a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to read. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change. In choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing Edgar. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical. As Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, uponCatherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning Catherine.Catherine’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was t he turning point of the whole story. It made Heathcliff change his love to hate. After Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his revenge. He successfully attained his objective. Not only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the hardships. This kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his uncommon and rebellious behavior. This special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special character. Heathcliff’s love tragedy was a tragedy of the society and that time.Wuthering Heights was known as “most strange novel” in the history of English literature and it was an unpredictable "strange book". The reason is that it was different from the sentimentalism that lies in the works of the same age. It replaced the deep sadness and depression with intense love, brutal hate and ruthless revenge. It just like a strange lyric poem, imagination and intensive emotion existed among the words and between the lines and it had a kind of amazing artistic power.第三篇:(呼啸山庄)Wuthering-Heights-英文介绍及赏析呼啸山庄Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety. The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted. And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters. As a shattering presentation of thedoomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Today, Wuthering Heights has a secure position in the canon of world literature, and Emily Brontë is revered as one of the finest writers—male or female—of the nineteenth century. Like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. But Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticated observation and artistic subtlety. The novel has been studied, analyzed, dissected, and discussed from every imaginable critical perspective, yet it remains unexhausted. And while the novel’s symbolism, themes, structure, and language may all spark fertile exploration, the bulk of its popularity may rest on its unforgettable characters. As a shattering presentation of the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of literature.Analysis of Major Characters Heathcliff Wuthering Heights centers around the story of Heathcliff. The first paragraph of the novel provides a vivid physical picture of him, as Lockwood describes how his “black eyes” withdraw suspiciously under his brows at Lockwood’s approach. Nelly’s story begins with his introduction into the Earnshaw family, his vengeful machinations drive the entire plot, and his death ends the book. The desire to understand him and his motivations has kept countless readers engaged in the novel. Heathcliff, however, defies being understood, and it is difficult for readers to resist seeing whatthey want or expect to see in him. The novel teases the reader with the possibility that Heathcliff is something other than what he seems—that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Catherine, or that his sinister behaviors serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero. We expect Heathcliff’s character to contain such a hidden virtue because he resembles a hero in a romance novel. Traditionally, romance novel heroes appear dangerous, brooding, and cold at first, only later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving. One hundred years before Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights, the notion that “a reformed rake makes the best husband” was already a cliché of romantic literature, and romance novels center around the same cliché to this day. However, Heathcliff does not reform, and his malevolence proves so great and long-lasting that it cannot be adequately explained even as a desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine, Edgar, etc. As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more. Critic Joyce Carol Oates argues that Emily Brontë does the same thing to the reader that Heathcliff does to Isabella, testing to see how many times the reader can be shocked by Heathcliff’s gratuitous violence and still, masochistically, insist on seeing him as a romantic hero.呼啸山庄It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool. When Brontë composed her book, in the 1840s, the English economy was severely depressed, and the conditions of the factory workers in industrial areas like Liverpool were so appalling that the upper and middle classes feared violent revolt. Thus, many of the more affluent membersof society beheld these workers with a mixture of sympathy and fear. In literature, the smoky, threatening, miserable factory-towns were often represented in religious terms, and compared to hell. The poet William Blake, writing near the turn of the nineteenth century, speaks of England’s “dark Satanic Mills.” Heathcliff, of course, is frequently compared to a demon by the other characters in the book. Considering this historical context, Heathcliff seems to embody the anxieties that the book’s upper- and middle-class audience had about the working classes. The reader may easily sympathize with him when he is powerless, as a child tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw, but he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman. This corresponds with the ambivalence the upper classes felt toward the lower classes—the upper classes had charitable impulses toward lower-class citizens when they were miserable, but feared the prospect of the lower classes trying to escape their miserable circumstances by acquiring political, social, cultural, or economic power. Catherine The location of Catherine’s coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life. She is not buried in the chapel with the Lintons. Nor is her coffin placed among the tombs of the Earnshaws. Instead, as Nelly describes in Chapter XVI, Catherine is buried “in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor.” Moreover, she is buried with Edgar on one side and Heathcliff on the other, suggesting her conflicted loyalties. Her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons’, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar. However, she is also motivated by impulses that prompt her to violate socialconventions—to love Heathcliff, throw temper tantrums, and run around on the moor.Edgar Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s. Edgar is born and raised a gentleman. He is graceful, well-mannered, and instilled with civilized virtues. These qualities cause Catherine to choose Edgar over Heathcliff and thus to initiate the contention between the men. Nevertheless, Edgar’s gentlemanly qualities ultimately prove useless in his ensuing rivalry with Heathcliff. Edgar is particularly humiliated by his confrontation with Heathcliff in Chapter XI, in which he openly shows his fear of fighting Heathcliff. Catherine, having witnessed the scene, taunts him, saying, “Heathcliff would as soon lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of mice.” As the reader can see from the earliest descriptions of Edgar as a spoiled child, his refinement is tied to his helplessness and impotence. Charlotte Brontë, in her preface to the 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights, refers to Edgar as “an example of constancy and tenderness,” and goes on to suggest that her sister Emily was using Edgar to point out that such characteristics constitute true virtues in all human beings, and not just in women, as society tended to believe. However, Charlotte’s reading seems influenced by her own feminist a genda. Edgar’s inability to counter Heathcliff’s vengeance, and his naïve belief on his deathbed in his daughter’s safety and happiness, make him a weak, if sympathetic, characterThemes, MotifsThemes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. Moreover, Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that theyare identical. Catherine declares, famously, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, wails that he cannot live withou t his “soul,” meaning Catherine. Their love denies difference, and is strangely asexual. The two do not kiss in dark corners or arrange secret trysts, as adulterers do. Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time or embrace difference in others, it is fitting that the disastrous problems of their generation are overcome not by some climactic reversal, but simply by the inexorable passage of time, and the rise of a new and distinct generation. Ultimately, Wuthering Heights presents a vision of life as a process of change, and celebrates this process over and against the romantic intensity of its principal呼啸山庄characters. As members of the gentry, the Earnshaws and the Lintons occupy a somewhat precarious place within the hierarchy of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British society. At the top of British society was the royalty, followed by the aristocracy, then by the gentry, and then by the lower classes, who made up the vast majority of the population. Although the gentry, or upper middle class, possessed servants and often large estates, they held a nonetheless fragile social position. The social status of aristocrats was a formal and settled matter, because aristocrats had official titles. Members of the gentry, however, held no titles, and their status was thus subject to change. A man might see himself as a gentleman but find, to his embarrassment, that his neighbors did not share this view. A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as how much land he owned, how many tenants and servants he had, how he spoke, whether he kept horses anda carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”—gentlemen scorned banking and commercial activities. Considerations of class status often crucially inform the characters’ motivations in Wuthering Heights. Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood” is only the most obvious example. The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their behaviors. The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially. They do not have a carriage, they have less land, and their house, as Lockwood remarks with great puzzlement, resembles that of a “homely, northern farmer” and not that of a gentleman. The shifting nature of social status is demonstrated most strikingly in Heathcliff’s trajectory from homeless waif to young gentleman-by-adoption to common laborer to gentleman again (although the status-conscious Lockwood remarks that Heathcliff is only a gentleman in “dress and manners”).第四篇:呼啸山庄英文reportAs far as I am concerned,during Catherine’s lifetime,Heathcliff was adopted by Earnshaw’s,but his son Hendry insulted and maltread Heathcliff in every possible way after Mr Earnshaw’s death.It is Heathcliff’s low status and the ambiguity of class belongings made him suffer discrimination and injustice in the Wuthering pared with H endry,his sister Catherine’s exist made Catherine feel the love that he never had before.They all had the same yearing for freedom.And they were connected on the uninhabited instinct.Their soul was permeated and blended and they were just like an isolated soulmate.It’s Catherine who made Heathcliff find the hope oflife.However,while Heathcliff heard the news that Catherine was going to marry Eadgr,he can’t accept it and left Wuthering Heights.At that time,Heathcliff’s hope was shattered because of Cather ine’s betray.Five years later,as soon as Heathcliff went back to Wuthering Heights,Catherine had moved to thrushcross,grange and lived together with Edagr.Heathcliff loved Catherine so intensely that he disgusted everything around him and began to take vengeance on Hendry and Eadgar.However, wandering between the lover and husband,Catherine was tortured and weakned and finally died after giving birth to a baby girl.Catherine’s death made Heathliff more and more crazy and acclerate the vegeance on everything around him,for which he thought it’s their fault to make he lost Catherine forever. In a word,Catherine provided Heathliff love and regret whatever before her death of after death.The intense love for Catherine deeply rooted in Heathliff’s heart so that h e can’t help torturing Hendry more,possessing himself of the Wuthering Height.第五篇:呼啸山庄英文读后感Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, and was the only novel written by Emily Bronte. As we know, Emily Bronte and Charlotte, Anne was together called as three sisters‟ constellation in the English literary history. In 1818, Emily Bronte was born in the poor priest family. With less than two years old, she and her family moved to Howard areas and lived in a remote wilderness, and she never left there. When she was 27 years old, she started to write Wuthering Heights, and published it when she was 29 years old. But Wuthering Heights was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author EmilyBronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when Wuthering Heights received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. T oday it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.Wuthering Heights is a story of love and revenge; it is the typical gothic novel. It is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, regarded him as the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soul mate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.Wuthering Heights is not so easy to “get into” , because the description of the environment and the character, the portrait of this obsessive love is so dark and somewhat off-putting. But in this novel there was the flow of the work in a remarkable way setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures. And these structures circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Besides, the description of wasteland in the novel gave more impression for readers. Wasteland gives Wuthering Heights rare vigor and charm and gloomier, mysterious, wild, remarkable, full of passion. What‟smore, it is the temperament and charm of Wuthering Heights, and can be summed up in two ways: one is the Wuthering of humanity; the other is the Wuthering of nature.Wuthering Heights explores the philosophy of humanity. The characters in the novel are full of boldness, wildness and passion which is the human nature and instinct that free from the restrict of social civilization. In this novel, passion is the key to bring the readers into the story, it does not matter of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, it‟s a real existence for us to experience and think. Wuthering Heights is a story of love, but it is different with other love story. During the whole novel, the female leading role --Catherine rarely use "love" to describe the relationship between her and the male leading role--Heathcliff. But In that night she decided personally the tragic fate of her and Heathcliff, she said …my great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff‟s miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he was annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it……I am Heathcliff! He‟s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I is always a pleasure to me, but as my own being.‟This is the real soul of Catherine, she love Heathcliff, but she can‟t marry with him because of her selfish and the pretentious feature. This is the paradox of love which leads to the tragic end for Catherine and Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights is a story of revenge. After knowing the decision what Catherine made, Heathcliff left her, left Wuthering Heights. But he came back after several years, and retaliated Catherine and all the people who had jeered and abused him before. When Catherine was going to die, he wasextremely cruel and did not give her tenderness and consolation, but said to her…you teach me how cruel you‟ve been-cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart,Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself.……You love me—then what right bad you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or satan could inflict would have parted us,you, of your own will, did it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me,that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you—oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‟ Yes, Heathcliff hated Catherine so much, because he loved her so much. He must retaliate so that he could be survival from the sadness and the broken heart.The end of the novel was that Heathcliff committed suicide, his death is a die for their love, and express his undyong love for Catherine. Before he died, he gave up the revenge of the next generation. This reflects that he has a good nature, but because of the cruel reality he loses his nature. The recovery of humanity is a spiritual sublimation and reflects the humanitarian ideals.Wuthering Heights is a stunning novel; frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again。
Wuthering Heights■ 1 Mr Lockwood visits Wuthering HeightsI have just returned from a visit to my landlord,Mr Heathcliff.I am delighted with the house I am renting from him.Thrushcross Grange is miles away from any town or village.That suits me perfectly.And the scenery here in Yorkshire is so beautiful!Mr Heathcliff,in fact,is my only neighbour,and I think his character is similar to mine.He does not like people either.‘My name is Lockwood,’I said,when I met him at the gate to his house.‘I'm renting Thrushcross Grange from you.I just wanted to come and introduce myself.’He said nothing,but frowned,and did not encourage me to enter.After a while,however,he decided to invite me in.‘Joseph,take Mr Lock wood's horse!’he called.‘And bring up some wine from the cellar!’Joseph was a very old servant,with a sour expression on his face.He looked crossly up at me as he took my horse.‘God help us!A visitor!’he muttered to himself.Perhaps there were no other servants,I thought.And it seemed that Mr Heathcliff hardly ever received guests.His house is called Wuthering Heights.The name means‘a windswept house on a hill’,and it is a very good description.The trees around the house do not grow straight,but are bent by the north wind,which blows over the moors every day of the year.Fortunately,the house is strongly built,and is not damaged even by the worst winter storms.The name‘Earn-shaw’is cut into a stone over the front door.Mr Heathcliff and I entered the huge main room.It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen,except that there was no sign of cooking,and no farmer sitting at the table. Mr Heathcliff certainly does not look like a farmer.His hair and skin are dark,like a gipsy's,but he has the manners of a gentleman.He could perhaps take more care with his appearance,but he is handsome. I think he is proud,and also unhappy.We sat down by the fire,in silence.‘Joseph!'shouted Mr Heathcliff.No answer came from the cellar,so he dived down there,leaving me alone with several rather fierce-looking dogs. Suddenly one of them jumped angrily up at me,and in a moment all the others were attacking me.From every shadowy corner in the great room appeared a growling animal,ready to kill me,it seemed.‘Help!Mr Heathcliff!Help!’I shouted,trying to keep the dogs back.My landlord and his servant were in no hurry to help,and could not have climbed the cellar steps more slowly,but luckily a woman,who I supposed was the housekeeper,rushed into the room to calm the dogs.‘What the devil is the matter?’Mr Heathcliff asked me rudely,when he finally entered the room.‘Your dogs,sir!’I replied.‘You shouldn't leave a stranger with them.They're dangerous.’‘Come,come,Mr Lockwood.Have some wine.We don't often have strangers here,and I'm afraid neither I nor my dogs are used to receiving them.’I could not feel offended after this,and accepted the wine.We sat drinking and talking together for a while.I suggested visiting him tomorrow.He did not seem eager to see me again,but I shall go anyway.I am interested in him,even if he isn't interested in me.Two days later Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold,but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow. I banged on the front door for ten minutes,getting colder and colder.Finally Joseph's head appeared at a window of one of the farm buildings.‘What do you want?’he growled.‘Could you let me in?’I asked desperately.He shook his head.‘There's only Mrs Heathcliff indoors,and she won't open the door to you.’It was snowing heavily now and I was very cold .I tried to open the door but it was locked .Just then a young man appeared in the courtyard and made a sign with his hand telling me to follow him.We went through the back door and into the big room where I had been before.I was delighted to see a warm fire and a table full of food.And this time there was a woman sitting by the fire.She must be Mrs Heathcliff,I thought.I had not imagined my landlord was married. She looked at me coldly without saying anything.‘Terrible weather!’I remarked.There was silence.‘What a beautiful animal!’I tried again,pointing to one of the dogs that had attacked me.She still said nothing,but got up to make the tea.She was only about seventeen,with the most beautiful little face I had ever seen.Her golden wavy hair fell around her shoulders.Her eyes were beautiful but there was a disagreeable expression in them.‘Have you been invited to tea?'she asked me crossly.‘No,but you are the proper person to invite me,’I smiled.For some reason this really annoyed her.She stopped making the tea,and threw herself angrily back in her chair. Meanwhile the young man was staring aggressively at me.I couldn’t decide if he was a servant or not.He was dressed like one and spoke like one.His thick brown curls were uncombed and his hands and face were brown from working outside .He looked like a farm worker,but seemed to be part of the family.But his manner was proud and free,not like a servant’s .I did not feel at all comfortable.At last Heathcliff came in.‘Here I am,sir,as I promised!’I said cheerfully.‘You shouldn't have come,’he answered,shaking the snow off his clothes.‘You'll never find your way back in the dark.’‘And I’m afraid I’ll have to stay here unitl the snow stops.Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange?’I asked.‘No,I couldn't.There aren't any servants here except Joseph and the housekeeper.Get the tea ready,will you?’he added fiercely to the young woman.I was shocked by his unpleasantness.We pulled our chairs to the table while the girl poured the tea.We drank our tea in silence and there was a very tense atmosphere in the room .I thought it was my fault so I tried to make conversation with the three silent people round the table.‘How happy you must be,Mr Heathcliff,’I began,‘in this quiet place,with your wife and—’‘My wife!’Heathcliff exclaimed lookintg aournd him. ‘Where?Are you talking about her spirit?’I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake.So his wife was dead!Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl. She must be married to the young man next to me,who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands.Perhaps the poor girl had found no one better to marry in this uninhabited area.I turned politely to the young man.‘Ah,so you are this lady's husband!’This was worse than before. His face went red,and he seemed only just able to stop himself hitting me.He muttered something I could not hear.‘Wrong again,Mr Lockwood,'said Mr Heathcliff.‘No,her husband,my son,is dead.This,’he added,looking scornfully at the young man,‘is certainly not my son.’‘My name is Hareton Earnshaw,’growled the young man.The atmosphere began to depress me and I promised myself not to make a third visit to Wuthering Heights.We finished our meal in silence,and when I looked out of the window,all I could see was darkness and snow.‘I don't think I can get home without a guide,’I said politely.No one answered me.I turned to the woman.‘Mrs Heathcliff,’I begged,‘What can I do?Please help me!’‘Take the road you came on,'she replied without interest,opening a book.‘That's the best advice I can give.’‘Mr Heathcliff,I'll have to stay here for the night!’I told him.‘I hope that will teach you not to walk over the moors in bad weather,’he answered.‘I don't keep guest bedrooms.You can share a bed with Hareton or Joseph.’I was so angry with them all that I could not stay there a moment longer,and rushed out into the darkness. I saw Joseph by the back door,caught hold of the lamp he was carrying,and ran with it to the gate.But the dogs chased after me and attacked me,knocking me down. Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door,laughing,as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up.They sat on me until Heathcliff and Hareton arrived and pulled them off.In the end I was again rescued by the housekeeper,Zillah,who ordered away the dogs and helped me to my feet.I was so bruised and exhausted that I did not feel strong enough to walk home,and although I did not want to,I had to spend the night at Wuthering Heights.Nobody wished me goodnight,as Zillah took me upstairs to find a bed for me.■ 2 Catherine Earnshaw's room‘Quietly,sir!’whispered the housekeeper,as we climbed up the dark stairs.‘My master will be angry if he discovers which bedroom you're sleeping in.For some reason he doesn't want anyone to sleep there,I don't know why.They're strange people in this house,you know.Here's the room,sir.But I was too tired to listen.‘Thank you,Zillah,’I said,and,taking the candle,I entered the room and closed the door.The only piece of furniture in the large,dusty bedroom was a bed,placed next to the window. There were heavy curtains which could be pulled around it,to hide the sleeper from anyone else in the room.Looking inside the curtains I saw a little shelf full of books,just under the window.I put my candle down on the shelf,and dropped thankfully on to the bed.I closed the curtains around the bed,and felt safe from Heathcliff and everyone else at Wuthering Heights.I noticed that there were names written on the wall in childish handwriting—Catherine Earnshaw,Catherine Heathcliff and Catherine Linton.Then I fell asleep,but I was woken very suddenly by a smell of burning. My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it.When I opened the Bible to see if it was damaged,I found that wherever there was an empty page,or half a page,someone had written on it,and on the first page was written ‘Catherine Earnshaw's diary,1776’.Who was the girl who had slept in this bed,written her name on the wall,and then written her diary in the Bible,twenty-five years ago?I read it with interest.‘How I hate my brother Hindley!’it began.‘He is so cruel to poor Heathcliff.If only my father hadn't died!While he was alive,Heathcliff was like a brother to Hindley and me.But now Hindley and his wife Frances have inherited the house and the money,and they hate Heathcliff.That horrible old servant Joseph is always angry with Heathcliff and me because we don't pray or study the Bible,and when he tells his master,Hindley always punishes us.I can't stop crying. Poor Heathcliff!Hindley says he is wicked,and can't play with me or eat with me any more.’My eyes were beginning to close again and I fell asleep.Never before had I passed such a terrible night,disturbed by the most frightening dreams.Suddenly I was woken by a gentle knocking on the window. It must be the branch of a tree,I thought,and tried to sleep again.Outside I could hear the wind driving the snow against the window.But I could not sleep.The knocking annoyed me so much that I tried to open the window. When it did not open,I broke the glass angrily and stretched out my hand towards the branch.But instead,my fingers closed around a small,ice-cold hand!It held my hand tightly,and a voice cried sadly,‘Let me in!Let me in!’‘Who are you?’I asked,trying to pull my hand away.‘Catherine Linton,’it replied.‘I've come home.I lost my way!’There seemed to be a child's face looking in at the window.Terror made me cruel. I rubbed the creature's tiny wrist against the broken glass so that blood poured down on to the bed.As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment,I pulled my hand quickly back,put a pile of books in front of the broken window,and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside.‘Go away!’I called.‘I'll never let you in,not if you go on crying for twenty years!’‘It is almost twenty years!'replied the sad little voice.‘I've been out here in the dark for nearly twenty years!’The hand started pushing through the window at the pile of books,and I knew it would find me and catch hold of me again.Unable to move,I stared in horror at the shape behind the glass,and screamed.There were rapid footsteps outside my bedroom door,and then I saw the light of a candle in the room.‘Is anyone here?’a voice said. I sat up.I was shaking and sweating .It was Heathcliff.He could not see me behind the curtains,and clearly did not expect an answer.I knew I could not hide from him,so I opened the curtains wide.I was surprised by the effect of my action.Heathcliff dropped his candle and stood without moving,his face as white as the wall behind him.He did not seem to recognize me.‘It's only your guest,Lockwood,’I said.‘I'm sorry,I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep.’‘To the devil with you,Mr Lockwood!’growled my landlord.‘Who allowed you to sleep in this room?Who was it?’‘It was your housekeeper,Mr Heathcliff,’I said,quickly putting my clothes on.‘And I'm angry with her myself!No one can sleep in a room full of ghosts!’‘What do you mean?’asked Heathcliff,looking suddenly very interested.‘Ghosts,you say?’‘That little girl,Catherine Linton,or Earnshaw,or whatever her name was,must have been wicked!She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years.It was probably a punishment for her wickedness!’‘How dare you speak of her to me?’cried Heathcliff wildly.But as I described my dream,he became calmer,and sat down on the bed,trembling as he tried to control his feelings.‘Mr Lockwood,’he said finally,brushing a tear from his eye,‘you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night.I'll stay here for a while.’‘No more sleep for me tonight,’I replied.‘I'll wait in the kitchen until it's daylight,and then I'll leave.You needn't worry about my visiting you again either.I've had enough company for a long time.’But as I turned to go downstairs,my landlord,thinking he was alone,threw himself on the bed,pushed open the window and called into the darkness.‘Come in!Come in!’he cried,tears rolling down his face.‘Catherine,do come!My darling,hear me this time!’But only the snow and wind blew into the room.How could my dream have produced such madness?I could not watch his suffering any more,and went downstairs.I waited in the kitchen until it was light enough outside for me to find my way through the deep snow back to Thrushcross Grange. The housekeeper there,Ellen Dean,rushed out to welcome me home. She thought I must have died in the previous night's snowstorm.I changed my clothes and I went down to my study.There was a cheerful fire in the fireplace and some hot coffee on the table.I sat down in my armchair feeling very weak and tired after my bad night and long walk across the moor.I began to recover from my unpleasa nt experiences gradually.After my stay at Wuthering Heights,I thought I would never want to speak to any human being again,but by the end of the next day I was beginning to feel lonely.I decided to ask Mrs Dean to sit withme after supper.‘How long have you lived in this house?’I asked her.‘Eighteen years,sir. I came here early in 1783 when my mistress was married,to look after her. And when she died,I stayed here as housekeeper.’I was curious to know the history of the people at Wuthering Heights.‘Mrs Dean must know it,’I thought.I decided to introduce the subject.‘Who was your mistress?’I asked.‘Her name was Catherine Earnshaw,'she replied.‘Ah,my ghostly Catherine,’I muttered quietly to myself.‘She married Mr Edgar Linton,a neighbour,’added Mrs Dean,‘and they had a daughter,Cathy,who married Mr Heathcliff's son.’‘Ah,so that must be the widow,young Mrs Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights!’‘That's right,sir.Did you see her?I looked after her as a baby,you know. How is she?I do want to know.’‘She looked very well,and very beautiful.But I don't think she's happy.’‘Oh,poor thing!And what did you think of Mr Heathcliff?’‘He's a rough,hard man,Mrs Dean.But I'm very interested in him.Tell me more about him.’‘Well,he's very rich,of course,and mean at the same time.He could live here at Thrushcross Grange,which is a finer house than Wuthering Heights,but he would rather receive rent than live comfortably.But I'll tell you the whole story of his life,as much as I know,that is,and then you can judge for yourself.’■ 3 Ellen Dean's story—Catherine and Heathcliff as childrenWhen I was a child,I was always at Wuthering Heights,because my mother was a servant who looked after Hindley Earnshaw,Hareton’s father.They are a very old family who have lived in that house for centuries,as you can see from their name on the stone over the front door. Hindley and I were the same age.His sister Catherine was eight years younger than us.I grew up with Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw,and we three played together as children.One day,their father Mr Earnshaw came back from a long journey. He had travelled sixty miles to Liverpool and back on business,and was very tired.‘Look what I've brought you!’he told us all,unwrapping something he was holding carefully in his arms.Catherine and Hindley were expecting presents,and they rushed eagerly to see what it was. They were very disappointed to see only a dirty,black-haired gipsy child.‘I found him all alone in the busy streets of Liverpool,’Mr Earnshaw explained to them,‘and I couldn't leave him to die.He can sleep in your room.’But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents,and refused to let the strange child share their room.However Mr Earnshaw insisted,and little by little the boy became accepted by the family.He was called Heathcliff,as a first and last name.No one ever discovered who his parents had been.Not long after that,Mrs Earnshaw d ied and the three children were left without a mother.Catnerine and he became great friends,but Hindley hated him,and was often cruel to him.He never complained or cried when Hindley hit him.Old Mr Earnshaw was strangely fond of this gipsy child,and frequently punished his son for behaving badly to Heathcliff.Hindley began to be jealous of his father's feelings for Heathcliff,and saw them both as enemies.I often wondered why Mr Earnshaw admired him.Heathcliff never showed any signs of affection for the old man or any signs of gratitude either.But the old man’s love gave him power over Hindley.I remember Mr Earnshaw once bought a couple of young horses and gave one to each of the boys.Heathcliff took the best one but it hurt its leg.He wanted to exchange it for Hindley’s.‘You must give me your horse ,’he said.‘I don’t like mine.If you don’t ,I’ll tell your father abouthow you hit and beat me.’Hindley picked up an iron bar saying,‘Geta away from me!’‘Throw it!’replied Heathcliff not moving .‘I’ll also tell him that you’re going to send me away as soon as he dies.’Hindley threw the bar and it hit Heathcliff on the chest .He fell down ,but got up again immmediately .His face was white but he looked calmly at Hindley.‘Take my horse then,gypsy!’shouted Hindley.‘And I hope he kicks you!’Heathcliff was passing behind the animal to change saddles when suddenly Hindley pushed him.Heathcliff fell under the horse’s feet.Hindley ran away as fast as he could.Heathcliff didn’t say anything .He got up and rested for a while to recover from the blow.Then he went into the house .He didn’t show the mark on his chest to Mr Earnshaw and I thought it was because he wasn’t a vindictive boy.But I wrong ,as you will hear.This situation could not last.As Mr Earnshaw grew old and ill,Heathcliff became even more his favourite,and Hindley often quarrelled with his father.When Hindley was sent away to study,I hoped that we would have peace in the house.But then it was that old servant Joseph who caused trouble.He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children,and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the Bible or attending church services.Catherine was a wild,wicked girl in those days.We had to watch her every moment of the day,to stop her playing her tricks on us.She was proud,and liked giving orders.But she had the prettiest face and the sweetest smile you've ever seen.I could forgive her anything when she came to say she was sorry.She was much too fond of Heathcliff,and the worst punishment we could invent was to keep her separate from him.Her father could no longer understand her or her behaviour,and Catherine did not realize that his illness made him less patient with her.At last Mr Earnshaw found peace.He died quietly in his chair by the fire one October evening in 1775.The night was wild and stormy,and we were all sitting together in the big kitchen.Joseph was reading his Bible at the table,while Catherine had her head on her father's knee.He was pleased to see her so gentle for once,and she was singing him to sleep.I was glad the old gentleman was sleeping so well.But when it was time to go to bed,Catherine put her arms round her father's neck to say goodnight,and immediately screamed,‘Oh,he's dead,Heathcliff!He's dead!’Heathcliff and I started crying loudly and bitterly too.Joseph told me to fetch the doctor,so I ran to the village,although I knew it was too late.When I came back,I went to the children's room,to see if they needed me,and I listened for a moment at their door. They were imagining the dead man in a beautiful distant place,far from the troubles of this world.And as I listened,crying silently,I could not help wishing we were all there safe together.■ 4 Catherine Earnshaw gets to know the LintonsHindley came home for his father's burial.What was more surprising was that he brought a wife with him.We were all amazed.She was young and pretty but very thin.Her eyes sparkled like diamonds.Her name was Frances.She trembled a lot and cried at the funeral.She said she was afraid of ter I noticed she breathed with difficulty when she climbed the stairs.At first Frances was very happy to have a new sister but her enthusiasm for Catherine didn’t last long .She didn’t like Heathcliff at all. Now that Hindley was the master of the house,he ordered Joseph and me to spend our evenings in the small back-kitchen,as we were only servants,while he,his wife and Catherine sat in the main room.Catherine and Heathcliff were treated very differently.Catherine received presents,and could continue her lessons,but Heathcliff was made to work on the farm with the men,and,as a farm worker,was only allowed to eat with us in the backkitchen.They grew up like two wild animals.Hindley did not care what they did,as long as they kept out of his way,and they did not care even if he punished them.They often ran away on to the moors in the morning and stayed out all day,justto make Hindley angry.Sometimes they went there in the morning and stayeed away all day.They were punished for it but it didn’t matter.They forgot everything as soon as they were together again.I was the only one who cared what happened to the two poor creatures,and I was afraid for them.One Sunday evening they were sent out of the sitting room for making a noise.When I went to call them to supper,I couldn’t find them anywhere.We searched the hosue ,upstairs and downstairs,and the courtyar too ,but they weren’t there .Hindley was furious and ordered me angrily to lock the front door.But I did not want them to stay out in the cold all night,so I kept my window open to look out for them.In a while I saw Heathcliff walking through the gate.I was shocked to see him alone.‘Where's Catherine?’I cried sharply.‘At Thrushcross Grange,with our neighbours the Lintons,’he replied.‘They didn’t want me to stay so I had to come back.Let me in,Ellen,and I'll explain what happened.’I went down to unlock the door,and we came upstairs very quietly.‘Don't wake the master up!’I whispered.‘Now tell me!’‘Let me take off my wet clothes and I’ll tell you all about it,Nelly,’he replied.While he was changing ,he told me what happened.‘Well,Catherine and I went for a walk on the moor.We saw the lights at the Grange and we decided to go and look through the windows.We ran down the hill and hid under the sitting room window.The light was on.We wanted to see if Isabella and Edgar Linton are punished all the time by their parents,as we are.’‘Probably not,’I answered.‘I expect they are good children and don't need to be punished.’‘Nonsense,Ellen!Guess what we saw when we looked in at their sittingroom window?A very pretty room,with soft carpets and white walls.Catherine and I would love to have a room like that!But in the middle of this beautiful room,Isabella and Edgar Linton were screaming and fighting over a little dog!How stupid they are,Ellen!If Catherine wanted something,I would give it to her,and she would do the same for me.I would rather be here at Wuthering Heights with her,even if I'm punished by Joseph and that wicked Hindley,that at Thrushcross Grange with those two fools!’‘Not so loud,Heathcliff!But you still haven't told me why Catherine isn't with you?’‘Well,as we were looking in,we started laughing at them so loudly that they heard us,and sent the dogs after us.We were about to run away,when a great fierce dog caught Catherine's leg in its teeth.I attacked it,and made it let go of her leg,but the Lintons' servants appeared and caught hold of me. They must have thought we were robbers.Catherine was carried unconscious into the house,and they pulled me inside too.All the time I was shouting and swearing at them.‘“What a wicked pair of thieves!”said old Mr Linton.“The boy must be a gipsy,he's as dark as the devil!”Mrs Linton raised her hands in horror at the sight of me.Catherine opened her eyes,and Edgar looked closely at her.‘“Mother,”he whispered,“the young lady is Miss Earnshaw,of Wuthering Heights. I've seen her in church occasionally.And look what our dog has done to her leg!It's bleeding badly!”‘“Miss Earnshaw with a gipsy!”cried Mrs Linton.“Surely not!But I think you must be right,Edgar.This girl is wearing black,and Mr Earnshaw died recently.It must be her.I’d better put a bandage on her leg at once.”‘“Why does her brother Hindley let her run around with such a companion?”wondered Mr Linton.“I remember now,he's the gipsy child Mr Earnshaw brought home from Liverpool a few years ago.”‘“He's a wicked boy,you can see that,”said Mrs Linton.“And did you hear the bad language he used just now?I'm shocked that my children heard it.”’‘I was pushed out into the garden,but I stayed to watch through the window.They put Catherine on a comfortable sofa,cleaned her wound and fed her with cakes and wine.I only left the house when I wassure she was well taken care of.She's a breath of fresh air for those stupid Lintons.I'm not surprised they like her.Everybody who sees her must love her,mustn't they,Ellen?’‘I'm afraid you'll be punished for this,Heathcliff,’I said sadly.And I was right.Hindley warned Heathcliff that he must never speak to Catherine again,or he would be sent away from Wuthering Heights,and it was decided that Catherine would be taught to behave like a young lady.She stayed with the Linton family at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks,until Christmas.By that time her leg was fine,and her manners were much better than before.Frances Earnshaw visited her often,bringing her pretty dresses to wear,and persuading her to take care of her appearance,so that when she finally came home after her long absence,she almost seemed a different person.Instead of a wild,hatless girl,we saw a beautiful,carefully dressed young lady.When she had greeted all of us,she asked for Heathcliff.‘Come forward,Heathcliff!’called Hindley.‘You may welcome Miss Catherine home,like the other servants.’Heathcliff was hiding in a corner.He was shocked by this beautifully yound lady.She didn’t look like the Catherine he knew .He was used to being outside all day,and had not bothered to wash or change his clothes.His face and hands were black with dirt.In spite of this,Catherine was very glad to see him and rushed up to kiss him.Then she laughed.‘How funny and black and cross you look!But that's because I'm used to Edgar and Isabella,who are always so clean and tidy. Well,Heathcliff,have you forgotten me?’But,ashamed and proud,the boy said nothing,until suddenly his feelings were too much for him.‘I won't stay to be laughed at!’he cried,and was about to run away,when Catherine caught hold of his hand.‘Why are you angry,Heathcliff?You…you just look a bit strange,that's all.You're so dirty!’She looked worriedly at her hands,and her new dress.‘You needn't have touched me!’he said,pulling away his hand.‘I like being dirty,and I'm going to be dirty!’As he ran miserably out of the room,Hindley and his wife laughed loudly,delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding.The next day was Christmas Day.Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch,and their mother had agreed,on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from‘that wicked boy’.I felt sorry for poor Heathcliff,and while the Earnshaws were at church,I helped him wash and dress in clean clothes.He got up early the next morning and went out to the moor.When he came back ,he seemed to be happier.‘Nelly,’he said .‘Make me look nice.I’m going to be good.’‘I’m glad to hear it,Heathcliff,’I said.‘You upset Catherine.She’s probably sorry she came home.’‘Did she say she was upset?’he asked looking very serious.‘She cried when I told her you weren’t here this morning.’‘Well,I cried last night,’he replied.‘And I had a good reason to cry.’‘Yes, ’I said.‘You went to bed without any dinner!But go and wash now.When you’re clean and wearintg your best clothes,you’ll look more handsome than Edgar Linton.’‘You're too proud,’I scolded him as I brushed his black hair.‘You should think how sad Catherine is when you can't be together.And don't be jealous of Edgar Linton!’‘I wish I had blue eyes and fair hair like him!I wish I behaved well,and was going to inherit a fortune!’‘He has none of your intelligence or character!And if you have a good heart,you'll have a。