Appreciation of Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄赏析概要1.pptVIP

It’s known as “19th century’s most peculiar novel” and “a soul of drama”. It releases unique, shining and splendid glory in the brilliant literary constellation of the nineteenth century. Emily Bront? This novel is famous for the gothic styles as well as its theme. It tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and people around them. causes of the tragedy narrative mode image analysis symbols in the novel She suffered from poverty of physical world and helplessness of spiritual world. Loneliness made her the physical and emotional world full of a sense of extreme disappointment and shattered. Therefore, Emily desired to express her feeling through the love tragedy of rich and intense fantasy features, and expressed her strong dissatisfaction with social reality. These just created the conditions for the birth of Wuthering Heights. This tragedy is also caused by the two characters’ personalities. The class difference is the direct cause which leads to their love tragedy. Wuthering Heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art of the stresses and tensions and conflicts, personal and spiritual, of nineteenth-century capitalist society. ——Arnold Kettle The innovation of narrative mode This is the first novel that employs flashback. The novel breaks the traditional way of narration, but to create two characters Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean to tell the story. The success of Wuthering Heights is, in part, owing to the use of flashback. “one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.” 房屋那头有几颗矮小的枞树过度倾斜，还有一排瘦削的荆棘都向着一个方向伸展枝条，放佛在向太阳乞讨温暖。由此就可以猜想到北风吹过的威力了。 The image analysis The t