英语专业-The analysis of the character in Wuthering Heights 毕业论文.docVIP

Introduction Since the publication of Wuthering Heights, it has long been under great dispute for its tragic love and the much-criticized character Heathcliff. The character of Heathcliff and his weird personalities has been a major research direction since 1880s.Since the 80s19th, scholars started to put their focus on the analysis of Heathcliff’s distortion and the arguments could be summered up to such as the reasons that his living alone in others home without the care from family, the blow of the betrayed love and his miserable background and so on. But such arguments have their limitations as they just try to analyze the factors of forming Heathcliff’s tragic characters in only one or two aspects or take the external factor as the primary one to cause Heathcliff and Catherine’s tragic love. Although Wuthering Heights is a novel which deals with tragic love, but the influence of love attaches importance to the tragic characters of Heathcliff. In other words, as love is the soul and theme in the novel, it may have a deep relationship between Heathcliff’s tragic characters and his tragic love with Catherine. Yet many critics take sorted of factors as the primary factors which form Heathcliff’s tragic characters, the author of the present paper argues that the primary factor of forming Heathcliffs tragic characters is related to the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine and Catherines choice of love ultimately forms Heathcliff’s distortion. The thesis is composed of four parts. The first part makes a brief review of previous studies about Wuthering Heights. The second part and the third part are devoted to the analysis of Heathcliff and Catherine’s tragic love and both external and internal factors of forming their tragic love. The last part will give a summary of this thesis. 1 Twisted soul Heathcliff 1.1 Two generation of persons love EmilyBronte is world-famous for her wonderful novel Wuthering Heights. Her novel is famous for its love theme, filled wi