Analysis of Heathcliff’s Views On Love In Wuthering Heights 英语专业论文.docVIP

Analysis of Heathcliff’s Views On Love In Wuthering Heights Introduction Overview of Emily Brontes Life Emily Bronte, the fifth child of Patrick Bronte, was born in 1818. His father was a Cambridge educated clergyman born in Ireland. 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 in 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 boarding 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 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 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 which 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