Analysis of different attitudes towards love reflected in Wuthering Heights 英语论文.docVIP

Analysis of different attitudes towards love reflected in Wuthering Heights I. Introduction Introduction to Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff The hero and the heroine of the novel Wuthering Heights are Heathcliff and Catherine. The main point of my thesis is to analysis the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, the fate of Catherine whose betrayal of Heathcliff just brought her endlessly pain and love tragedy. First their established relations are found by the relationship during the darkness. They meet by fate and are ended by their different choice of love. Heathcliff was brought to the heights by old Earnshaw for he was an abandoned child. After his death, his son, Hindly deprives Heathcliff of all the human rights and treats him cruelly. During the years of oppression, only Catherine offers him warmth and friendship. Little by little, they fight against Hindly’s tyranny, and support each other and their friendship becomes stronger. Their same interest and life concept make a bond of the two. When they are both in dilemma, they take each other as spirit and the sunshine of life, just as Catherine says: “He is more myself than I am. What ever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” “I am Heathcliff. He is always in my heart; not as pleasure, but as my own being.” (Emily Bronte, 1999: 32) Heathcliff is more of the value of her life. In choosing Edgar, she is cheating to herself, just as what Heathcliff comments. A love oak is planted in a flower-pot. So when Heathcliff returns she is eager to see him love her all the same and maybe more. She tries to compromise her feelings with what Linton claims, but that can never be done at all. She cannot bear such suffering, falls ill and never recovers. Introduction to Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte who died of tuberculosis in 1884 at the age of thirty. The story of her life, just like that of her brothers and sisters, has long since taken place among the great