Heathcliff’s Unmixed Love and Hatred in Wuthering Heights 爱与恨的交织——论呼啸山庄中的希斯克里夫.docVIP

Heathcliff’s Unmixed Love and Hatred in Wuthering Heights 爱与恨的交织——论呼啸山庄中的希斯克里夫 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction to Emily Bronte Emily Bronte, British poet and novelist of the 19th century, was born in Thornton, a small county in the north of Yorkshire, England, in the year of 1818. She moved to Haworth with her parents when she was two and their house was located at the top of the area. Her mother died soon. Bronte sisters lived with their father, and Emily’s father was very fond of literature and had a great influence upon Bronte sisters. About Emily’s life, there was little materials remained and most people believed that Emily is introverted and did not show her feelings easily, she was taciturn on appearance while at the same time had the most intensive passions inside. Emily had no experience of love affairs and had got through most of her fugacious life in an isolated circumstance with an irresistible love for the vast moors of Yorkshire. Except housework, she spent all her time on it. Bronte sisters found great pleasure playing outside in the vast, rough, untouched moorland wilderness. This was especially so with Emily, who, a rather reserved and simple girl, was very much a child of nature. She was never tired of staying outside in the open moorland in all weathers and never at ease when she was away from it. It could be said that it’s the moors which present her with infinite inspirations to create Wuthering Heights and in fact, the background of this story was just this environment of asperity. 1.2 Introduction to Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Bronte. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centers (as an adjective; wuthering is a Yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). However, when it was first published in 1847, it was considere