Wuthering Heights剧情及人物介绍 英文

Wuthering Heights

Characters and the relationships between them

恩萧（欧肖）先生Mr.Earnshaw ————呼啸山庄主人

辛德雷·恩萧Hindley Earnshaw ——其子

凯瑟琳·恩萧Catherine Earnshaw—其女，小名凯蒂Cathy

希斯克厉夫Heathcliff ———恩萧抚养的孤儿

弗兰西斯Frances ————辛德雷之妻

哈里顿·恩萧Hareton Earnshaw ——辛德雷之子

丁耐莉Nelly Dean —————女管家，又名艾伦Ellen

保姆Nanny

约瑟夫Joseph —————呼啸山庄的老仆人

林敦先生Mr。Linton ————画眉田庄主人

埃德加·林敦敦Edgar Linton ——其子，后娶凯瑟琳·恩萧

伊莎贝拉·林敦—Isabella Linton其女，后嫁希刺克厉夫

凯瑟琳·林敦——Catherine Linton 埃德加与凯瑟琳之女，亦名凯蒂林·希刺克厉夫

洛克乌德先生Mr Lockwood ——房客

肯尼兹医生Dr. Kenneth ———当地医生

齐拉 Zillah —————呼啸山庄的女仆

画眉山庄Hwamei Villa

In Gothic novels, the shaping of the characters is a commonly used vehicle for giving expression to the gothic ingredient. This is particularly true of Emily‘s Wutherin g Heights. When we open this book, we can see various terrifying characters. The first character is the hero Heathclif f. He seems to be an inhuman monster. Being a son of the storm, his behavior is flooded with Gothic color: cruel, imperious, and he stoops to anything to get what he wants. What‘s more, the love between Catherine and him goes beyond the common limit and is quite abnormal compared with love in other works of her age. The entire action of the story takes place within the two houses-Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and on the moors lie between. The principal character, Heathcliff, around whom all the action revolves, emerges as starkly as Wuthering Heights. He may be thought of as the personification of the house. There is an analogy between his appearance and his character and that of the Heights itself.

When Mr. Lockwood, the tenant of Thrushcross Grange, pays his visit to Wuthering Heights, curious about the brooding quality and crumbing, menacing appearance of the Heights and the inscription over the door- the date ‗1500‘and the name ‗Hareton Earnshaw‘, Mr. Lockwood would like to ask his landlord about this, but Heathcliff proves to be unsociable, inhospitable, and brusque.

―The ‗walk in‘ was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, ‗Go to the deuce‘: even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathizing movement to the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved th an myself.‖[18]

This is the first appearance that Emily displayed to us. And the first impression of t he hero Heathcliff adds the color of mystery and implies to the readers that the man is bound to have a long story. By the brief portrayal of the hero, she creates suspense for the whole story, which embodies the Gothic tradition.

During Mr. Lockwood‘s staying at the Heights, he found a diary. The entry regarding the degrading life Heathcliff was forced to lead by Hindley throws some light on the character of Heathcliff as Mr. Lockwood now finds him. For the first time we sympathize with Heathcliff in his anguish, although we are still ignorant as to its cause. Heathcliff has been revealed as a man capable of great emotion, as well as cruelty. The scene still is in the Heights. Declaring that the room is haunted, Mr. Lockwood decides to spend the rest of the night elsewhere. As he is about to leave the room, the odd and horrible thing happens: ―I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense. He got on to the bed and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an unco ntrollable passion of tears. ‗Come in! Come in!‘ he sobbed. ‗Cathy, do come. Oh, do-once more! Oh! My heart‘s darling! Hear me this time, Catherine, at last!‘ The specter showed a specter‘s ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of being; but the snow and wind whirled wilding through, even reaching my station, and blowing out the light.‖[19] Heathcliff is alarmed when he hears that Catherine has appeared to Mr. Lockwood; obviously, he believes that her spirit haunts Wuthering Heights and is trying to come to him from beyond the grave. This element arouses the interest and curiosity of the reader and embodies Gothic color a step forward.

3.1.1.2 Crazy revenge on his enemies

With the birth of his son Hareton and the death of his wife Frances Hindley‘s final disintegration commerces. This is consistent with the moral weakness he has shown previously. He concentrates his venom on Heathcliff, whom he brutalizes and in whom he tries to stamp out the feeling of worthiness that old Mr. Earnshaw had engendered. Heathcliff, in turn, delights in seeing his enemy destroy himself. It is consistent with Heathcliff‘s nature that he encourages his enemies to destroy themselves by their won inner flaws. And readers anticipate conflicts and trouble in the future. From this point of view, he behaves quite cruel and revengeful. To fulfill his revenge on Hindley, he turns little Hareton into a brute with no love or respect for his father, and he has ended his education – just as Hindley did to him. When Heathcliff reappears after Cather ine‘s marriage, thinking she might show him where his evil ways are leading him, Nelly pays a visit to the Heights. Seeing little Hareton outside the gates, she identifies herself and says she has called to see his father, Hindley. Hareton does not recognize her as his former nurse and greets her with a hail of stones and curses. Nelly asks him who taught him such things and he answers ―Devil daddy.‖[20] He says his father cannot abide him because he swears at him. He says the curate no longer comes to teach him and it is Heathcliff, whom he loves, who has taught him to swear. Furthermore, he is determined to brutalize Hareton as himself was brutalized. This is evidented by the incident of Hareton‘s hanging