Duality In Catherine’s Personality In Wuthering Heights.docVIP

Duality In Catherine’s Personality In Wuthering Heights 　　中图分类号:I06文献标识码:A文章编号:1673-0992(2010)07A-0169-01 　　 　　Abstract: The heroine Catherine’s personality is filled with contradictions in Wuthering Heights. On the one hand, she represents a girl of simple nature and free mind without any worldly sophistication. On the other hand, she is worldly in her personality, which is manifested by her vanity she desires for fame and wealth. 　　Key words: Catherine, double personality, vanity 　　“Wuthering Heights” is the representative work of Emily Bronte who was a very famous writer in Britain. And it is also her only novel. In this novel, the center is the story about Catherine, Heathcliff and Linton, a story between one woman and two men. Emily has broken away from the conventional love in her novel. This novel can be divided into four parts: the first part talks about that the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff and Heathcliff is nature. 　　But along with the development of the western civilization, the women’s position was improved due to the women’s liberation movement which had begun at that time, Victorian Age. It also began in the literature works, but still couldn’t shake off the traditional sense of women. From the character Catherine in Wuthering Heights, we can find two contradictory personalities in one person that Emily created. On one hand, Catherine lived in the moor that was far away from the mundane society. She was simple, wild, willful and free minded without any worldly desires. On the other hand, she was a worldly side in her personality which was manifested by her vanity and she desires for fame and wealth. She was a complicate figure. From Catherine, we can see the women’s weakness and stubbornness in her personality combined together through a chain of media. 　　The love between Heathcliff and Catherine was the core of the novel. Catherine loved Heathcliff very much because they are alike that they have the same wild and stubborn t