论艾米莉·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》中的同性恋倾向-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE iii childhood. Emily Bront?’s psychological trauma can not be pacified, so she brings her misfortune into her novel. The mothers in WutheringHeights mostly die early and leave their children. But she could not bear to let their heart suffer from the great pain which she experiences. Therefore, she arranges a person, Nelly, to take care of, give audience to and give comfort to them, instead of their mothers. The third section mainly studies Emily Bront?’s lesbian narrative pattern. Repetitions and merging make the novel move towards sameness and the obliteration of difference. According to Marilyn Farwell’s theory of “lesbian narrative space”, the narrative patterns of sameness and difference in the novel is a conflict between homosexuality and heterosexuality. But the unmasking of encoding is unconscious in Bront?’s case. The evidence about Bront?’s life makes homosexuality a solution to the code. Several aspects of repetition and parallelism are presented. They are repetition and parallelism of the family ties and characters in Wuthering Height. The second generation’s self and love are the repetition of the first generation’s. All of these conform to Farwell’s definition of the narrative strategies in lesbian text. The fourth chapter is about the loss and return of Characters’ soul in Wuthering Heights from Sameness to Difference. Sameness rather than difference dominates this section of the novel, reflecting homosexual rather than heterosexual intensity. The unification of two souls makes their taboo emotion which can not be accepted under social influence get a realization in another world and Emily Bront? finally gets freedom in her soul. It is argued that Wuthering Heights is an ambivalent novel that shows the author’s sexual inversion. Catherine and Heathcliff are one and both of them are the author’s incarnation. The last chapter is conclusion. Lesbian tendency is unconsciously showed in Emily Bront?’s masterpiece, Wuthering Height