呼啸山庄英文

呼啸山庄英文（共6篇）

篇1：呼啸山庄英文

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 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 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.

篇2：呼啸山庄英文

Well, before I begin my part, I would like to ask you a question that is if you hate a person a lot, what will you do? Keep silence? Talk about your feelings with the person immediately and try to solve the problem? Or hurt the person to express your anger? Or deal with it in other ways? Who can give me you’re an answer? Now let’s come back to our novel.What did the hero, Heathcliff do when he had extreme hatred? He chose to revenge.Then in the following part, I’ll begin with the revenge in Wuthering Heights.Later on, I’d like to talk about some other related things about revenge.First, let’s see the revenge in the novel.We know that Heathcliff lives in an abnormal way.People around despised this ‘evil gypsy’.When his beloved Catherine married the gentleman, Edger Linton, for wealth and reputation, Heathcliff’s heart broke completely.His hatred towards Hindley and the Lintons became stronger.When Catherine died, Heathcliff was like an active volcano, boom!

Heathcliff had a careful plan to revenge.In his generation, I’d like to mainly say something about his marriage with Isabella.This action is the key step to take over the property of the Lintons.and vexed Edger mentally.Just as Isabella’s angry words ‘Whatever he may pretend, he wishes to provoke Edger to desperation;he says he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him…’Also, we can consider it his revenge to Catherine.He knew Catherine’s deep love towards him.He knew his marriage would hurt Catherine in the same way that she hurt him.The joy of revenge and the sorrow of love mixed together to become a very complicated feeling.Indeed, Heathcliff is such a complicated character.It’s not difficult to imagine his fierce inter struggles.Meanwhile, Heathcliff abused his wife, Isabella, as a sort of amusement.As he himself pointed 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.According to a modern study, a lot of criminals were lack of love.They get apathy even hatred from the society.If the seeds of enmity are planted in people’s hearts when they were kids, how can we expect these people to be friendly and kind? What goes around comes around.H is a typical character.When hatred gets its foothold in his soul, his choice is revenge.When we are shocked by H’s violence, we can feel a little bit sadness, too.Although maybe we can consider Hindley Earshaw and the Lintos Heathcliff’s enemy, it’s none of their children’s business, right? We always say that the children are innocent.But Heathcliff could not stop the mad beast called revenge from extending its reach to the next generation.‘…I want the triumph of seeing…my child hiring their children to till their father’s land for wages.’ What a terrible and poor man!Because his own life is miserable, he wanted to let the next generation suffer from what he has suffered.He used to say to the five years old boy, Hindley’s son, Hareton: ‘Now, my bonny lad, you are mine!And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!’ It’s the sort of thing that can be done by the demon.Heathcliff did make the boy as his own duplicate and ruined the boy.Will you be as lowly as a maid or a servant in you own house? It sounds quite ridiculous!1

篇3：呼啸山庄英文

I.Emily Bronte’s Mixed Attitude

Her Criticism:The story happened between two generations in the Earnshaws and the Lintons.There were five major male and four female characters.Women were independent and strong in character.Men on the contrary,were obscene and frail due to various reasons.Through negation and tarnish of men,Emily Bronte achieved her purpose of criticizing the patriarchy.She refuted the representatives of patriarchal society Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton conspicuously for their irresponsibility and cruel or weak tempers.Linton Heathcliff was a puppet for his father’s revenge,and Hareton Earnshaw was vulgar and ignorant for the first small half of his life.As a victim of the patriarchal society,Heathcliff became one after grown up to torture others.So Emily Bronte’s criticism pours clearly to the male characters.

Her Sympathy:While denouncing the decay order through rebuking the five main images,she also showed great sympathy to them.Earnshaw died to make Heathcliff be well to his son.At the end of Linton’s life,no one was by side.The white lie his daughter told was the author’s great sympathy to comfort him.They were blind-passionate men who bore the pain of losing their love.Linton Heathcliff is a tragic ignorant and naïve one.The author’s opinion conveyed through little Catherine who,after the deceit,still did not leave him and felt depressed after his death.Hareton was illiterate but could understand love and pardon.Brought up by an enemy of his father,he never complained and wanted revenge.In the end,he got little Catherine’s affection and fair treatment.This man,the only hope of patriarchy would live with Cathy happily ever after.Heathcliff originally was a victim of that monstrous society.His hatred was the result of the betrayal of his love.The ghost of his love haunted him for nearly twenty years,which was an unusual thing people can bear.For him,life“is a long fight”.[1](Bronte,259)Then he had a visional connection with his life-love Catherine and ended his hard life with a smile.Heathcliff did not have a family name and no one cared for him,which was the biggest tragedy in the book.Emily Bronte valued their love in that she arranged Heathcliff’s tomb next to Catherine’s in the end.

II.Reasons for Her Mixed Attitude

“The Victorian era of 19th century in England was a typical patriarchy with severe class conflicts and sense of hierarchy.Women were the pressed one”.[2](Wang,118)That was also“a period of time that female sex began to fight for independence and the traditional‘Family Angel’status”.[3](Yang,119)As a sensitive observer and well-educated woman,Emily Bronte strongly opposed the old order.But,she preserved in scrutiny that not all men were bad and some were the victims of it,such as labor workers and orphans and did not rebuke the whole male group.

Emily Bronte led a hard life so she understood women’s poor living condition.Meanwhile,as an introverted woman having a recluse life,she got enough space to create her wild imagination.She desired a wild and free life on a heath and beside the cliff,which was fulfilled by Heathcliff.After many years’of caring for her brother,she knew his bitter love experience and realized the difficulty of being a man and a weak group.Her father was a gentleman and got his success via hard work.Emily Bronte was influenced by her father’s nurture.So she might still keep faith in men.

Conclusion

From the above discussion,a conclusion is drawn that Emily Bronte articulated her mixed attitude towards male images in Wuthering Heights.She criticized them for their tyrant behaviors and also felt sympathy for them.Her mixed attitude was determined by her living environment and personal experience.Making this approach broaden,any author may express a mixed idea in his/her works,and the reasons can be traced back to social and personal experience.This can exert in following research when analyzing author’s attitude and the deep meaning of literary works.

参考文献

[1]Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 上海: 世界图书 出版公司, 2007.

[2]王桢. 英国女性文学的两座丰碑——《简爱》与《呼啸山 庄》比较研究之. 贵州: 贵州大学学报(社会科学版), 2005.

篇4：《呼啸山庄》四题

由于诸多杂事的牵扯，这部书竟断续花费了几个月时间才得以读毕。合上最后一页，凝神回味，心中首先浮起的是一种奇异之感：那就是它在某些方面有点近似（当然绝非等同于）早些时候读过的“新派”武侠小说。

并非有意随俗哗众以吸引视听——前些年，某文学博士与出版商联手为“二十世纪中国文学大师”排座次，将香港新武侠小说写家金庸列入，结果遭致众多正直严肃饱学之士的迎头痛击——前车之鉴，个中利害我自然不会不知。上述奇异之感不过是指相对于新武侠情节编排的雷同或程式化，人物性格的扁平与类型化（呈弱智、幼儿状态），以牵强的巧合误会造就惊天动地的生死恩仇等等而言，《呼啸山庄》的情节营造亦显粗疏幼稚，让人难以置信，其人物的性格行为亦乖戾反常、狂躁偏执（大抵是任情绪驱使而不顾后果），起落跌宕的情节转捩后面，人为的痕迹亦明显可见——

譬如老萧恩为何要从利物浦带回流浪儿希刺克厉夫并爱他甚于亲生骨肉？

希刺克厉夫为何要在窃听到凯瑟琳说嫁给他就会自降身份时忿然离去，而没有些许耐心听接下来对他的激烈赞美，以及炽热得连鬼神也难免为之动容的爱情表白？

伊莎贝拉为何会猝然爱上失踪三年后返回呼啸山庄的希刺克厉夫，并且痴狂执拗如磐石（这桩不合情理的悲壮婚姻只维持了短短三个月）？

更可怪的是十七年后凯蒂（埃德加与凯瑟琳之女）又依法炮制爱上了病弱无能的林淳（希刺克厉夫与伊莎贝拉之子）——虽然这桩不幸婚姻是希刺克利夫以暴力胁迫而成，但它毕竟源出那愚蠢无知的孩子气的“爱”……

类似上述经不住稍微认真推敲的情节安排、人物性格言行表露及相关细节选择，无须说还可以寻觅列举出若干——假如以正宗写实主义的基本标准与规则去考量作者及作品，那么一部《呼啸山庄》恐怕注定难逃诸如情节虚幻离奇、有违生活常理人物常态之类的指斥。事实上，如果愿去作一点考证挖掘及联想，我们还能为这种指斥找到若干合理的解释和依据。

如所周知，著名的勃朗特三姊妹降生于一个贫穷的乡村牧师家庭，因收入微薄，这一家子的经济状况相当拮据，连维持起码的生计都很困难。加之她们家居豪渥斯地区一处偏僻的旷野，并且从未离开过，称得上是终生离群索居，没有条件做一点起码的交游与旅行。也就是说，当时的艾米莉（还有她的姐姐夏洛蒂与妹妹安）不仅不可能获取比一般人更广阔的生活视野、更丰富的人生经验，而且跟当时的绝大多数女性一样，连个人的感情生活也受到法律和社会习俗的严格限制，因此其作品中生活场景的狭隘、人物思想情感的理念化（借用毛姆的说法，这“不是属于尘世的情绪”）及性格处理的简单主观几乎是必然的。更何况金无足赤，以苛刻的眼光看，任何小说（即便是最伟大的小说）也难免有某—方面（或几方面）的局限或缺失。问题在于，像这样一部局限与缺陷都非常明显的作品为何具有如此的震撼力？在某种程度上我更倾向于认为，优秀乃至一般化的作品往往不一定能挑出特别明显的毛病，而真正伟大的作品反而可能优缺点都相当突出（天才大多是偏激者或执拗者），但与此同时一定会独秉有某种超绝卓异、世所罕见、不可取代和重复的特征与品性，闪射出（或内蕴着）稀世之珍不同凡俗的炫目光芒（不妨回想品味一下果戈里、陀思妥耶夫斯基、爱伦·坡、卡夫卡，乃至鲁迅等人的杰作）。

基于上述立论，我们认定《呼啸山庄》正是一枚足以承载如是赞誉的稀世之珍。尤为费解的是，它的创造者竟是一位终生困居旷野僻地、因贫病交加仅活了短短三十个年头的乡村女子！对此，种种貌似充足的理由或解析恐怕都难以叫人真正心悦诚服，无可奈何之际，最终只能归之为造物（同时也是作为万物灵长的人类自身）的神奇与神秘了。

二、“歌唱家”或“诗人”的小说

以常规标准度量，人生经验欠缺与生活视野狭窄乃是被视为人生、人性勘探记录者的作家的致命缺陷，然而艾米莉并未因此而畏葸局促。面对存在（自然环境、人类情感/命运），她以罕见的天才力量和创造激情注入了如此盎然充沛的生气，使得其中和我们日常所见的人类如此不同、差距如此巨大的男女角色生动可感呼之欲出，就像施加了神秘难解的魔法一样。

这里的所谓生动可感，并不取决于它们跟人所熟稔的实存世界的相似程度，也无须以它们是否可能在日常现实中存在为基础，而是源自它们自身（作为以生命、情感为根基的文学创造物）的可信性与魅惑力。恰如爱·摩·福斯特所言：有一种作品你无法做到使它既感人又真实，设若小说家身上有着过于强大的歌唱家或诗人的质素，而弹丸之地的小说厅堂又无引吭高歌的余地，那么他就只好敲桌击椅以至非把家具弄坏不可。福斯特素以博识幽默著称，这段话自然不止是逗趣取乐以博人一粲，而是大有深意存焉。试看另一位英国女作家简·奥斯汀（她生活与创作的年代稍早于艾米莉），她以同样贫乏的生活经验（只限于中产阶级的客厅场景）写出了《爱玛》、《傲慢与偏见》等多部杰作，但其作品的风格却迥异于艾米莉，几乎称得上天差地别——前者以敏锐细密的感觉忠实地观察和摹写人物性格，分析情感心理，洞烛幽微，客观精当，丝丝入扣；后者则是以奇崛非凡的气度、夸张浓烈的笔触渲染构建出一个虚拟世界，其自然景观的荒蛮旷茫和与世隔绝、人物言行的执迷极端与性格的专横僻异都是出人意表超乎寻常的。从希氏同凯瑟琳铭心刻骨的生死恋情，到手段酷虐到近乎疯狂的复仇行为（最让人不寒而栗的是，除了对庄园财产的攫取外，他竟然将主要的复仇目标放在对仇人后代的蓄意折磨乃至人格类型的改造重塑上），种种人间恩怨情仇的酿成，个中根由既缘自价值取向的差异、性格的极端相左，同时也缘自人与人之间沟通理解的错位，还有人心深处的顽劣阴暗怨毒怪戾——不可思议的是其间各色人物行为情感的相互抵牾、吸引、搏战，无论深广度还是恣肆放纵度，似乎都远远超逾了人类通常可能的极限，予读者以似真非真的虚幻感。

说了这么多，我想表达的意思是：对《呼啸山庄》这部“最奇特的小说”而言，生活或者事实的“真实”并不那么重要，艾米莉一心关注的是将故事(人物命运)逐次推向早经设定的结局。进一步，就读者自阅读获取的直观感受和最终理解看，其中构成作品主体的人物、事件的过程与结局（包括最难理清评判的情感纠葛），也不过是一个载体而已——环围涌动在几十万混沌粗粝之言后面的是一派雷电交加、风急雨骤的狂乱轰鸣，作为一个基本声部的人物性格、命运、行为、情感（尤其是爱与恨的交战）的演进，常常被淹没在震彻寰宇的交响里，并延展趋向至无穷的不可知之境。对此，另一位晚她三十多年出生的同胞、著名女作家弗·伍尔夫曾精当地指出：“《呼啸山庄》是一部比《简爱》更难懂的书，因为艾米莉是—位比夏洛蒂更伟大的诗人。”“当夏洛蒂写作时，她以雄辩、光彩和热情说‘我爱’、‘我恨’、‘我受苦’。她的经验，虽然比较强烈，却是和我们自己的经验在同一水平上。”艾米莉却是“被某些比较普遍的观念所激励，促使她创作的冲动并不是她自己的受苦或她自身遭受的伤害。她看到一个四分五裂、混乱无序的世界，并感到她本身有能力在一部书中把它合为一体……这场斗争的目的是通过她的人物之口来诉说某种东西，但不仅仅是‘我爱’、‘我恨’，而且是‘我们、整个人类’和‘你们，永恒的力量’……正是对于这种潜伏于人类本性的幻象之下的力量升华到崇高境界的暗示，使这部书在其它小说中显得出类拔萃，形象宏伟”。

三、环境、人物与声音

书名中的“呼啸”一词值得作一点探究。

据小说开篇时的解释，这是“一个意味深长的内地形容词”，描绘的是这地方在风暴的天气里所受的气压骚动。身为某种预言（非寓言）或象征的承载者，“呼啸(Wuthering)”这个词的选用堪称传神（当然还得力于老翻译家杨苡先生的创造性翻译），我们在此至少可以谈及以下两点——

A.声音。《呼啸山庄》中自始至终充满了声响，其间有暴风雨的嚎叫、雷电撼天动地的轰鸣、人物的内心独白或喃喃自语、更有目眦皆裂的詈骂与歇斯底里的咆哮……作为人物性格情感（爱与恨）延伸、宣泄与强化的主要方式（渠道），声音的重要性甚至已经超逾了通常的背景作用，进而构成了小说主体的一部分。

B.强度或烈度。著名英国作家毛姆曾将《呼啸山庄》列为世界十佳小说之一，并宣称：“我不知道还有哪一部小说中爱情的痛苦、迷恋、残酷、执著曾经被如此令人吃惊地描述出来。”事实上不止是爱情，还有历久弥深的刻骨仇恨、匪夷所思的恶习怪癖，以及几乎所有人物（除了房客洛克乌德先生和山庄女管家丁耐莉）都偏执简单武断得有弱智之嫌的判断能力、行为动机，在作品中无一不是表现得“令人吃惊”。

据同时代人回忆，艾米莉外表沉默寡言，然其内心情感的热烈奔放、大胆忧伤，却是拜伦辞世后少有人能与之比肩的。这让人想起书中有关山庄外景的描写：“从房屋的那头有几棵矮小的枞树过度倾斜，还有那一排瘦削的荆棘都向着一个方向伸展枝条，仿佛在向太阳乞讨温暖，就可以猜想到北风吹过的威力了。”艾米莉笔下世界的陌生新异，跟她天性及生命历程的与众不同直接关联，这二者彼此造就互为表里，此无待多言。问题是，闭塞严酷的生活不免对一个正常人的精神与肉体造成深重损伤，而在这压抑下产生的猛烈反弹里往往潜藏着某些意想不到的可怕因子，它既可能给他人也可能给自己带来严重以至致命的后果。

稍作回想，我们或许都曾耳闻、亲见或通过其他方式知晓，生长于不同地域的人类因天性的相左相异（或鲁钝、或聪慧、或刚烈、或倔强、或柔顺等）而导致做人行事（特别是在本能性应对突然变故时）准则与模式大相径庭的报道，不同秉赋品性的造成跟不同人文自然生态的长期熏染是紧密相关的——对此，“一方水土养一方人”这句熟语不失为一个精当的概括。以《呼啸山庄》为例，从其中的萧恩兄妹、希刺克厉夫、伊莎贝拉、林淳、老仆人约瑟夫到他们的创造者：现实中的艾米莉本人，他们都在不同程度上以各自独有的方式验证了这一点。

四、文学中远去的天才年代

我曾经在别一篇文字里写道；天才并非大师巨匠的同义语，真正的绝世天才的创造过程往往是短促的——他们不是在猛烈的燃烧里过快地耗尽了自己（早夭、疯癫、一开始即达到最高点），就是在与生俱来的生理与心理疾患（怀疑、焦虑、忧郁）中将生命缓慢地磨蚀殆尽。

有游刃有余的天才（主要表现在捉笔写作时），也有运交华盖、终生彷徨犹疑举步维艰的天才（即便在写作时）——《呼啸山庄》的作者似乎介于这两者之间。尽管因家境贫困及长期酗酒吸毒的兄长勃兰威尔暴君式的毁坏，艾米莉的个人生活几乎无幸福可言，但她毕竟在短暂的有生之年完成了这部不朽杰作，这是英国文学的幸运，也是后世读者们的幸运。单就作品数量多寡与技术运用的高下衡量，十九与二十这两个相邻的世纪好像无法相提并论，不过假如将今天每时每刻都在大量制造的小说（以流水线生产的方式）同一个多世纪前艾米莉时代留下的小说（以手工打造的方式）略加比较，我们便不难发现，伴随前者技术精细、花样百出而生的是情感冷漠、心胸褊窄与精神的萎顿——这源自科技与物质主义背景下现代人类的文明病（具体为文学的职业化与商业化），或许这才是杀死文学创作的真正的绝症。

毛姆曾这样谈到《呼啸山庄》给他留下的印象：

（这部作品）使我想起埃尔·格里科的那些伟大的绘画中的一幅，在那幅画上是一片乌云下的昏暗的荒寂土地的景色，雷声隆隆拖长了的人影东歪西倒，被一种不是属于尘世间的情绪弄得恍恍惚惚。他们屏息着，铅色的天空掠过一道闪电，给这一情景加上最后一笔，增添了神秘的恐怖之感。

篇5：呼啸山庄的英文读书报告

The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres.

The housekeeper Ellen Dean, or we can call her Nelly, tells most of the story. She witnesses the life of the three-generations in the two families. She is a good storyteller but we mustn’t believe all of what she said. She always thinks and considers things in a simple way. She couldn’t understand the deep love between Catherine and Heathcliff. She thinks it is a kind of madness. She is a limited narrator. In a certain way, this helps readers to understand Heathcliff better because he has no chance to defend himself. An outsider will see the whole thing more clearly. However, we should pay more attention not to be affect by her opinions and try to find the truth between the lines.

The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both themselves and many around them.?Х)

As a main character Catherine is a paradox. She is attracted by Linton but doesn’t love him. She knows that clearly but she marries Linton without listening to the call of her heart. Many critics believe that what makes her marry Linton is only his high social status and wealth. I think this comment is unfair. In fact, she folly thinks to marry Linton will help Heathcliff “to rise and place him out of my brother’s power.” Her decision ruins herself, Heathcliff and the two families. She has to endure serious suffering because she knows clearly she love Heathcliff whole-heartedly but can’t become his wife. She confesses to Nelly her own thoughts: “…I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind—not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself—but as my own being…” She loves Heathcliff because he is more like her than herself. His existence is natural to her for they are the same in nature. They could understand each other without obstacles.

篇6：《呼啸山庄》英文读后感

After all this term’s learning on English literature , Wuthering height may be the most impressive novel to me . So I will discuss something special in this book , the gothic setting.

What is gothic setting ?

Gothic setting is one of the fiction genres which first begin at the middle of 19 century in England . Sa一vage , mystery , terror , backward , dark , family curse , supernatural and suspense are the signal features of this kind of fiction genre . It mainly talks something about the dark side of society such as family hatred and succession race . The story in this style usually happens in remote place that far away from city .

What do we know about gothic setting in Wuthering heights ?

In fact , what impresses me most in this novel is the description of the environment . It is full of gothic setting . We can find that there is no sunshine in Wuthering heights all the year around , the haze and atmosphere there make people feel mystery and depressive . The weather is always changing according to the plot . When there is something badly happen , the environment will be influenced . For example, rain comes at once after Catherine’s betray . When it comes to Catherine’s death , it changes quickly and suddenly to hea一vy rain and strong wind . All in all , I think all this gothic setting is to show the feeling of writer .

The gothic setting in the book not only shows us the mystery of the environment , but also tells us the society stage and the different life style between different classes in that period . To Catherine , Heathcriff who belongs to the lower class represents spiritual love while Linton in the upper class represents material . She is in a dilemma to make a decision . On one hand , all of us know Catherine loves Heathcriff deeply . On the other hand , Linton can give her the life she expects , a rich and comfortable life and be respected by people . Material wins in the end .

What do we learn from this novel ?

True love or material , this is a question . In the novel , Catherine sacrifice her love to pursue a comfortable live . Actually material is usually the first choice I think when most of the women come to this decision . This was one of the hotest topic at after a women said on TV she would rather to cry in a BMW than to laugh on a bicycle . What she said liked a big stone thrown into a peaceful lake . Can money really replace love ? A lot of people argue on this question whether it is worthy of sacrificing on the Internet .