Analysis of Heathcliffs Views On Love In Wuthering Heights英语专业论文.docx

1、Analysis of Heathcliffs Views On Love In Wuthering Heights 英语专业论文Analysis of Heathcliffs Views On Love In Wuthering HeightsI. IntroductionA. Overview of Emily Brontes LifeEmily Bronte, the fifth child of Patrick Bronte, was born in 1818. His father was a Cambridge educated clergyman born in Ireland.

2、 When Emily was two years old, her father was appointed to a church in Haworth, a remote village in Yorkshire, and they spent most of their rest life there. When Emily was three years old, her mother died of cancer. After that, the children were left much to themselves and spent most of their time i

3、n reading and composition. They lived in a parsonage in Haworth with the bleak moors of Yorkshire on one side and the parish graveyard on the other. Life at home was much better for Emily and her siblings. In 1824 Mr. Bronte sent his four eldest daughters一Elizabeth, Maria, Charlotte, and Emily一to bo

4、arding school. While at school, they were frequently cold and undernourished, and Maria and Elizabeth contracted tuberculosis. Soon after being sent home to recuperate, they died. Alarmed, Mr.Bronte brought Charlotte and Emily home to be educated. Haworth was a relatively isolated community, and so

5、the Bronte children turned to one another for amusement and companionship. In 1826 Mr. Bronte brought home some wooden soldiers, and these were to be the foundation of the creation of a complicated fantasy world, which the Brontes actively worked on. They began to write about an imaginary world they

6、 had created. To escape their unhappy childhood, Anne, Emily, Charlotte and their brother Branwell, in their isolated childhood on the moors, developed an extremely close relationship partly based on their mutual participation in a game of make-believe. Emily and Anne created their own Gondal saga w

7、hich set in the Pacific Ocean. The first of their diary notes, written in November 1834, gives the first mention of Gondal. They continued writing prose and poems about Gondal until the end of their lives. Branwell and Charlotte recorded their stories about the kingdom of Anglia (Latin word for Engl

8、and) in small notebooks. The children began writing stories about them. They made tiny books containing stories, plays, histories, and poetry written by their imagined heroes and heroines.None of the prose has survived, and the poetry, the earliest of which dates to 1836, is difficult to interpret.

9、Various efforts have been made to fit the poems into a coherent saga, but these efforts are probably misguided. Some poems appear not to be about Gondal at all, but rather to reflect Emilys own feelings. This becomes clear Heights, in which her familiar Yorkshire surroundings become whose passion an

10、d beauty attract us today. in her novel Wuthering the setting for a tragedy.Emily made assistant teacher, several attempts to leave home. For example, she went to Law Hill as an Law Hill was a school run by Miss Patchett her lessons having been near Halifax. Emilys lack of formal eduoation (aotually

11、 all taken at home), temperament, and her homesickness would seem to have made Emily far from shy ideal teacher, but Miss Patchett didnt discuss her eccentric but distinguished assistant with subsequent biographers. The date and duration of Emilys stay at Law Hill are still in doubt. Law Hill is reg

12、arded as important for Wuthering Heights because a house nearby, High Sunderland Hall, is assumed to be the model for the house known as Wuthering Heights, and it has even been suggested that the story of Heathcliff was to be found in recollections of a local Halifax character, Jack Sharp. Returning

13、 to Haworth in 1839 at the age of twenty, Emily continued to write poetry. Her sisters made brief and unsuccessful efforts to become governesses, but Emily remained at home, either because she was the most domesticated of the sisters or because she was the least suited to become a teacher. Her birth

14、day in 1841 is, however, full of enthusiasm for a project that the Brontes should run their own school at Haworth. In order to achieve this, the sisters would need knowledge of foreign languages, and so in February 1842, Emily and Charlotte set out to Brussels. The position of the Bronte sisters in

15、Brussels was halfway between those of pupilsand teachers. As a teacher, it is not surprising that her forbidding reserve did not attract her pupils to her. On the other hand, M. Heger, her French teacher, spoke highly of her intellectual gifts as a student, and her surviving exercises show high imag

16、inative power as well as a good command of French. In November 1842, the Brontes were forced to return home by the death of their aunt. They had previously been shocked by the death of their fathers curate, William Weightman, in September, and by the death of their friend Martha Taylor in Brussels.

17、After that,Charlotte returned to Belgium, where she endured much loneliness and pains, but Emily remained at home. Their aunt had left the three girls some money, and there are reports of Emily considering the best way of investing it. For most of 1843 Emily was alone with her father. In February 18

18、44 Emily copied her poetry down into two notebooks, one of which she entitled Gondal Poems. The other notebook would seem to have contained poetry of a subjective nature.The chronology of the poems and the novel is confusing. Emily continued to write poetry in 1844 and 1845 in both Gondal and non-Go

19、ndal notebooks. The plan to start a school had collapsed in 1844 for lack of interest. And both Charlotte and Ann were in very low spirits. It was in these unpromising circumstances that Emily wrote some of hergreatest poetry and also Wuthering Heights.In the autumn of 1845, Charlotte discovered a n

20、otebook of Emilys containing poetry which she thought was very impressive, and they published the poetry in May 1846, together with a selection of Charlottes and Annes. But they sold only two copies. After this Emily wrote only one more poem and began to revise in May 1848. Her abandoning of poetry

21、has been variously explained. It has been argued that the fact of publication killed the poetry in her; others suggested that she was busy with Wuthering Heights.Meanwhile the Brontes health was not very well. Branwell had been ill badly since 1845, and he died on September 24th 1848. Emily was repo

22、rted as having a cough and a cold during the funeral. She struggled through her normal household tasks until almost the day of her death, refusing all medical help and died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848.B. Emily Brontes fictional world The story mainly centers around two harmonious families,

23、namely, the prosperous and bluff Earnshaw family, the richer and more civilized Linton family, and an intruder named Heathcliff. Mr.Earnshaw, his wife, their son Hindley and daughter Catherine are living in the handsome farmhouse Wuthering Heights up in the folds of moors, while Mr. Linton, his wife

24、, their son Edgar and daughter Isabella live down below in the valley at Thrushcross Grange. One day, Mr. Earnshaw comes back home with a rugged foundling from a business trip to Liverpool, whom he named Heathcliff. The daughter comes to make friends with Heathcliff, while the son takes him as an en

25、emy, a usurper of his parents affections and his privileges (Bronte, 1994: 36). Hindley makes every effort to torment and humiliate Heathcliff after his parents deaths. In addition, Catherine, who has developed a passionate love for Heathcliff and vice versa after so many years together, realizes th

26、e degradation and poverty she will face if married to him. She decides to marry the richer and more decent Edgar to help Heathcliff out of her brothers insult and torment. Hurt and frustrated, Heathcliff runs away and returns three years later with good manners and fortune, only to find that his bel

27、oved Catherine has married Edgar. He begins to avenge his maltreatment and inequality. He cheats Hindley out of his property and traps Edgars sister Isabella into becoming crazy about him. Catherine dies when giving birth to Edgars child, little Catherine, and Heathcliff vents his anger and grief on

28、 his rivals. He deprives Hindleys son Hareton of the rightful inheritance and turns him to be a harsh and barbarous man, who takes pride in his vulgarity and rudeness. At the same time, he torments Isabella to death and forces their dying son Linton to marry little Catherine. After the successive de

29、aths of little Linton and Edgar, Heathcliff succeeds in possessing all the properties of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Just as he is about to destroy the widowed little Catherine and the savage-like Hareton, he suddenly changes his mind, as he recognizes some resemblance between the

30、 two youngsters and Catherine and himself in the old happy days. For 18 years after Catherines death, he has been tortured and haunted by the memory of her. On seeing the ghost of his beloved one day, he finally forgets his revenge and comes to starve himself to death. At the same time, little Cathe

31、rine extends the olive branch to Hareton and manages to change him into an educated man. The two fall in love with each other and end in happiness at Thrushcross Grange forever, leaving the ghosts of Heathcliff and Catherine wandering over the moors.I. Heathcliffs views on loveA. Heathcliffs Demoniz

32、ation1. Roots of Heathcliffs Demonization According to Freud, human mind is like an iceberg, of which the visible part above water can be defined as the conscious while the larger part, the invisible one under water is called the unconscious. The conscious stands for the rationality and reason and f

33、unctions as the guard against the irrational instincts of the unconscious. In psychology,A psychical act mainly goes through two phases as regards its state, between which is interposed a kind of testing (censorship). In the first phase the psychical act is unconscious and belongs to the system unconsciousness; if, on testin