《呼啸山庄》男主人公希思克厉夫的心路历程

论《呼啸山庄》男主人公希思克厉夫的心路历程
Heathcliff’s Course of Mentality
in Wuthering Heights
摘要
本文从心理学角度阐释了十九世纪英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特在《呼啸山庄》中塑造的奇特复仇者形象——希思克厉夫，分析其悲剧的成因。

从外界环境压力与内在心理因素两个方面，探讨了希思克厉夫变态心理产生的根源，论述了希思克厉夫变态心理的发泄与表现，即演变与终结的历程，从而更为深入地认识理解这一复仇者的形象及作者的创作初衷，理解其悲剧性命运的成因。

儿时的悲惨记忆，少年时期来自辛德雷至高无上的家长权威的压力和他与凯瑟琳被社会异己力量禁锢的爱情等外界环境因素，连同希思克厉夫自身的性格缺陷和无法排解的心理冲突导致他变态心理的产生。

关键词：心路历程；爱情；复仇；外界环境
Abstract
The thesis illustrates the Heathcliff, an avenger portrayed in Emily Brontë‘s Wuthering Heights in the 19th century from the psychological point of view. It analyzes the reasons of Heathcliff‘s tragedy and explores the sources of his abnormal mentality from both the outer environmental factor and the inner mind diathesis. The study discusses the hero Heathcliff‘s mentality cours e and his performance, that is, his mental changing process and its ending. From this discussion, we can understand the image of avenger Heathcliff and author‘s writing purpose, so as to comprehend the fundamental causation of Heathcliff‘s tragic destiny b etter. A miserable memory of his childhood, Hindley‘s tyrannical maltreatment towards him and Catherine‘s betrayal of their love are the outer factors which lead him to his cruel revenge. His inability to forgive others and comprise with others are the inner factors.
Key Words: mentality course; love; revenge; outer environments
目录
摘要 (1)
Abstract (2)
Introduction (1)
Literature Review (2)
Chapter One The Universal Use of Duality in Wuthering Heights (4)
1.1 Emily Bron të‘s Double Attitude towards Heathcliff (5)
1.1.1 Emily Brontë‘s Emphasis on Heathcliff‘s Strong Love for Catherine (5)
1.1.2 Emily Brontë‘s Emphasis on Heathcliff‘s Cruel and Crazy Revenge (5)
1.2 Heathcliff‘s Double Personality Reflected in the Novel (6)
1.2.1He athcliff‘s Never Changing Love for Catherine (6)
1.2.2 Heathcliff‘s Cruel and Mean Revenge on People (7)
Chapter Two Heathcliff‘s Me ntality Course (8)
2.1From His Mysterious Childhood to Old Earnshaw‘s Adoption (8)
2.2 After Catherine‘s Betrayal (9)
2.3 His Return Home (9)
2.4 His Relentless Revenge and Death (10)
2.4.1 His Revenge (10)
2.4.2 His Death (11)
2.5 The Problems Reflected (12)
Chapter Thre e Heathcliff‘s Tragic Attributes Reflected from His Mentality Course .. 13 3.1 A Solitary Rebel with a Tragic Combination of Brutish Nature and Human Nature (13)
3.2 A Social Tragedy with Helpless Love and Futile Hatred (15)
Acknowledgement (16)
Conclusion (16)
Bibliography (17)
Introduction
Wuthering Heights(1847), written by one of the most famous British novelists and poets—Emily Bronte, was little regarded at the time of publication. It was published in December of 1847 under the pen name of Ellis Bell．It was not until half a century later that people gradually found its literary value and started to study and reevaluate it. From then on, Wuthering Heights came to be considered amongst the noblest productions of English Literature. Either from the perspectives of its plot and theme or from the angle of its gothic descriptions and narrative method, Wuthering Heights is worth studying.
In the paper, the author explains the hero Heathcliff‘s course of mentality in different periods according to Freud‘s development theory. In conclusion, Heathcliff‘s growing environment leads to his double personality and his mentality course gives rise to the tragedy in Wuthering Heights.
Literature Review
Though Wuthering Heights is a world famous literature, at the beginning of its publication it is not so popular. In 1847, there happened a turning change of Wuthering Heights. Both this novel and its writer become very popular especially for young audiences. The novel did not attract much attention when it was published in 1848. Not until 1950s did the novel begin to be highly valued; and recently the Western critics have exalted it as among the great novels of the Victorian Age.
It is Charlotte Bronte who first praises Wuthering Heights. In 1850 she wrote something to perfect the novel and then published it secondly. So Charlotte Bronte is Wuthering Heights the most important critic. To comment on one of the main characters Heathcliff. She states, ―I scarcely think it is ‗advisable‘‖ .Her words can be accepted by Victorian audiences but she does not speak out the novel‘s literature status. Except that, The Victorian readers are hardly accepted the substance in the Wuthering Heights. But In modern times, Wuthering Heights has a fixed position in world literature. The Gothic tradition is the main source to the Emily Bronte‘s novel in the late eighteenth century. However, ―Wuthering Heights transcends its genre in its sophisticat ed observation and artistic subtlety.‖
It was viewed as the oddest novel and was full of mystery. Most critics explored the love between Catherine and Heathcliff which is the center of the novel, or analyzed the Catherine‘s marriage concept and her strateg y from the sociological point of view. Wuthering Heights has spawned dramatic productions, a musical retelling, movies, and even a novel that fills in the gaps of Heathcliff‘s three missing years. Emily Brontë‘s novel has overcome its initial chilly reception to warm the hearts of romantics and realists worldwide. Nowadays, there are more and more scholars both at home and
aboard study this novel from many different kinds of views. For example, the scholar Kiely considers that though readers can only be able to see that the protagonist Heathcliff has completely different black hair and black eyes under the eyebrow from ordinary Englishman through the description of Lockwood and Nelly Dean in Wuthering Heights, Emily just reflects dual personality that exists n Heathcliff inner world through pouring the fragmentary parts of the life into readers‘ mind. In China, there are also many scholars study this novel, for example, Chinese scholar Gao Feng, Liang Yuling and Liang Yuhua all studied the character Heathcliff in the novel Wuthering Heights.
The success of Wuthering Heights to a great extent accredits to the creation of Heathcliff which is an epoch-making contribution in the field of image-shaping. Based on the study of Sun Lina, she insisted that Heathcliff from a juvenile possessing different assorted of characters to become a crazy avenger with a twisted human nature and finally obtain resurrection of humanity, the change of character of Heathcliff could better illustrate that social class concept and prejudice exert comprehensive harm to human nature, however, at the same time, it display the preciousness of standing upon our dignity.
Wuthering Heights is an important contemporary novel for following two reasons: It honestly and vividly portrayed the life of an early era and provides a general image of history for the readers; the work itself and the literary merit it possesses enables the text to excess above entertainment and rank as quality literature. Therefore, The portrayal of women, society, and class guard) witness to a time that‘s foreign to contemporary readers.
Because Bronte‘s characters are real, they are human beings with human emotions; besides, Wuthering Heights is not just a sentimental romance novel. This text, in my viewpoint, is a presentation of life, an essay on love, and also a glimpse at relationships. Bronte‘s style, imagery, and word choice were praised by many critics; they claimed that Wuthering Heights is actually poetry masquerading as prose.
When appreciating Wuthering Heights, we could always be keenly aware of freedom, the freedom from soul, from sensation as well as from life. This kind of
distinct and unique artistic sense intensely touches our nerves. According to Zhao Huihui, his study about this illustrious masterpiece unveils that Wuthering Heights starts from love, but end with hatred, death, soul together with the loneliness of our human being. Even though the theory of modernism has not been shaped at that time, whatever from the description of figures, or from the theme of this work alongside its means of artistic expression, this work mirrors the theory of modernism, and this is exactly the powerful prove of Emily‘s talent.
The thesis illustrates the Heathcliff from the psychological point of view. It analyzes the reaso ns of Heathcliff‘s tragedy and explores the sources of his abnormal mentality from both the outer environmental factor and the inner mind diathesis.
Chapter One The Universal Use of Duality in Wuthering Heights
In the novel we should not only focuses on Heathcliff‘s cruel towards other people. The universal use of Duality in this novel is worth of our studying. Heathcliff‘s doubt personality, his eternal love for Catherine and his cruel and mean revenge for people are
of analytical significance. The following chapter is a detailed analysis of the duality in the novel.
1.1 Emily Brontë’s Double Attitude towards Heathcliff
In the novel, Emily Bronte spends so much time on describing the deep love between Catherine and Heathcliff. This is the main plot of the story. Heathcliff who is from a kind man become a cruel man because his love changes. In addition to that, this is the root of other conflicts. Just as Emily Bronte said this is a story about Catherine and Heathcliff. It seems that their love can be lasted forever and why Heathcliff has changed a lot by his failure love. ―But this passion is obviously one of the most compelling and memorable aspects of the book. It is not easy to decide whether Bronte intends the reader to condemn these lovers as blameworthy or to idealize them as romantic heroes whose love transcends social norms and conventional morality‖ (Miller, 1963:157)
1.1.1 Emily Brontë’s Emphasis on Heathcliff’s Strong Love for Catherine
In the story, we all know that Heathcliff loves Catherine very much. When this love from doom to failure, Heathcliff‘s personality has been distorts so he revenge on Hindly and Catherine. In fact, on the essentially of Heathcliff who is a very kind man. He is just for in love with Catherine at first sight. And in the daily life he takes care of Catherine during his father lived. Catherine also cares Heathcliff so much. However their love totally be ruined by Catherine‘s brother. He becomes a traditional and cold blooded man. In that time their love cannot escape from the destroying of reality. A century ago, the writer wrote Wuthering Heights. She said that a reformed makes the best husband. Catherine and Heathcliff‘s love is a typical romantic love.
1.1.2 Emily Brontë’s Emphasis on Heathcliff’s Cruel and Crazy Revenge
Heathcliff‘s love has no good results which basis on his malevolence immediately. His revenge heart has existed for a long time. He wants to defeat Hindly and destroy his family and get all his treasure. As Heathcliff says Hindly take all things away from him and now it is time to return. In addition to that he even couldn‘t understand that why Cathernie willing to left him and marries Edgar. So he also hates Edgar to reeve his beloved Catherine. The writer here uses a lot words to explain how Heathcliff to do revenge on Hindly, Catherine and Edgar. And readers may not believe that Heathcliff can do such things on them. His ferocious and heartless even himself so he does very many bad things. When Emily portrays Heathcliff‘s revenge, we almost forget his loyalty to Catherine and his being ill treated by Hindley before. In my opinion Heathcliff is much crueler than Hindley, compared to Hindley‘s ill-treatment once done to him.
1.2 Heathcliff’s Double Personality Refl ected in the Novel
According to Freud‘s consciousness and subconsciousness theory, Heathcliff‘s double personality mainly reflected by his never changing love for Catherine and his astonishing revenge to all of related people in Wuthering Heights and Thrush cross Grange. He loved Catherine more than himself, but he was also a cold-hearted and brutal person. (Liang Yuling, 2001)
1.2.1Heathcliff’s Never Changing Love for Catherine
On the one hand, in Heatheliff‘s heart, he thinks that Catherine was more important than him. He said to Cat herine, ―Catherine, you know, I forget you is forget myself!‖ In his heart, Catherine‘s spirit haunted him even after she died for nearly twenty years. He said to Nelly, ―For what is not connected with her to me? And what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree--filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day--I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women--my own features--mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a
dreadful collection of memorandum that she did exist, and that I have lost her!‖ (Emily, 1995) He was hope to meeting with Catherine in the heaven again and died with smile for a long time.
1.2.2 Heathcli ff’s Cruel and Mean Revenge on Peopl e
Just as Emily had put forward from the perspective of human nature that the desire of happiness in real life mainly originated from human nature which was actually rather reasonable and natural, however, because of the wrong concept and beliefs in society which rightly restrained human‘s desire forced these desires to grow up deformedly and aberrantly , thus its evil consequence necessarily threatened the positive and healthy attributes to become morbid and negative ones which definitely were harmful to the whole society, accordingly tragedies and hatred were followed suit. Therefore, it will be easy to understand Heathcliff‘s cruel and mean revenge on the people in Wuthering Heights.
On the other hand, it was this deep love that made Heathcliff a ―monster‖, a
― cold-blooded ruffian‖ and a ―hellish mutineer‖. It was just this love distorted his mentality, also made him formed a terrible world outlook. He never regretted for his crazy revenge till his death. ―As to repenting of my injustices, I‘ve done no injustice, and I repent of nothing,‖ (Emily, Chapter 34) He considered that he would meet with Catherine in the heaven instead of the hell. ―Last night I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven.‖ (Emily, 1995) He also said to Nelly, ― I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven.‖ Obviously, he thought that he would go to the heaven after death. It was very strange that he was woken up to his sins but he refused to confess and repent his sins.
In all, his personality showed the contrast and consolidation between kindness and evil, also showed the transformation from beauty to ugliness.
Chapter Two Heathcliff‘s Mentality Course
In this novel Heathcliff is a typical representative of that society compare to other characters. As members of upper class man take up large treasure but it is not so stable. In this novel, Heathcliff‘s mentality course underwent great changes, which can be analyzed from the following stages.
2.1From His Mys terious Childhood to Ol d Earnshaw’s Ad option
As a starving, houseless orphan abandoned in the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff must want a home to support his life. As a result, old Earnshaw became his only hope. He bred bad feeling in the house, he certainly felt their hatred but he just endured all these ill-treatment: ―he would stand Hindley‘s blows without winking or shedding a tear, and Nelly‘s pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident and nobod y was to blame.‖ (Emily, Chapter 4) But at the same time, he still managed to get what he wants by all means. He was good at using his advantage and others‘ disadvantage which reflected by the story of changing horse. On one hand, he was believed and cocker by old Earnshaw; on the other hand, he was disliked and ill-treated by other people in the house. ―He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these‖ (Emily, Chapter 4). He was deeply feared that he would be
abandoned once again, but his treasonous nature made him never been obedient to anyone.
2.2 After Catherine’s Betrayal
When they first went to Thrushcross Grange by accident, Heathcliff was driven out of the door but Catherine was welcome by the Lintons only because the Lintons considered Heathcliff was unsuitable for a decent house. The social class made them met different service. Nevertheless, Heathcliff never minded other people‘s treatment on him. He just wanted to confirm Catherine‘s attitude of towards him. When he saw Catherine was playin g in Linton‘s home happily, he left the house. His little heart only took care of Catherine. He thought that Catherine was so immeasurably superior to them. After Catherine came back to Wuthering Heights on Christmas, Heathcliff began to realize their social differences and was ashamed of his own dirtiness and rudeness. Catherine was no longer the same as before. She became a really beauty. Heathcliff asked Nelly to dress him up so as to match his Catherine. But his desire for changing was scolded and hindered by Hindley maliciously. His love for Catherine and his hatred for Hindley developed increasingly at this moment. His mentality suffered a lot. He loved Catherine, but Catherine, ignoring his feeling, often played with Edgar and Isabella. He was also delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity. The house had become a hell. It was enough to make a friend of a saint. The final power forced Heathcliff leave home was Catheri ne‘s betrayal. When he heard Catherine said that ―it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff‖ (Emily, Chapter 9) by chance, his heart fell down to the bottom. Even Catherine, his only love and last support, looked down upon him! Heathcliff left home with a resentful and harmful heart. He decided to change his social class.
2.3 His Return Home
How many difficulties he met how many efforts he made in the process of becoming a gentleman no one knows. In those 3 years, he got through kinds of
difficulties and hardships. However, his best love-Catherine betrayed him to marry Edgar. He lost his most precious characteristic and that‘s to say, all his efforts become rubbish. At that time, Heathcliff thought everyone in-disgusting and he decided to destroy them at any cost. Consequently, people because afraid of him. However, when the news of Catherine‘s deaths came to him, he was truly upset and sad anger. As long as he thought about Hinldly, his heart was full of hatred. Then he did a detailed plan for revenge which l ed to Hindly‘s family broken up and decimated.
Although his first revenge on Hinldly proves to be successful, and he felt proud of that. His return that panic everybody, for his cruel means on Hindly makes most of them want to escape from Wuthering Heights. Even he destroys the innocent Isabella. He become a devil in the novel because those behaviors. During this time his gentle character has disappeared. Instead of that, he became a real cold blooded man. Catherine‘s death accelerated his revenge on Hindle y and Linton.
2.4 His Relentless Revenge and Death
Heathcliff lights up his revenge. Everyday he thinks is how to take all treasure of Hindly and Edgar‘s. Except that, he wants Catherine in a bad environment to live her life. He even didn‘t let their innoc ent children survive. His cruel characteristic persecuted many people. For a while he thinks that he shouldn‘t save Hareton for Hareton prevent him from revenge.
2.4.1 His Revenge
Heathcliff never forgets mental and physical damage impinged on him during childhood and on his return to Wuthering Heights, after a three year absence, the impulse to revenge himself on those entire he regards as having wronged him becomes his overpowering passion. He breaks down Hindley by encouraging his excessive drinking and gambling and with him aside he then turns his attention to Hareton: "We'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another with the same wind to twist it"(Emily, Chapter 22). Although he loses his inheritance, he does not bear a grudge toward Heathcliff. From this point, we can see that Heathcliff oppresses the little Hareton more
than Hindley who Heathcliff has done to him. (Emily, Chapter 22)
In addition to Isabella, Heathcliff want to turn his revenge on Linton and his daughter Catherine as well. At his perspective, the appearance of them destroys him and love affairs. In order to realize his plan, heathcliff marries Isabella to get a place in the Grange .In Emily, Chapter 18 and Chapter 20 he begins his revenge on Linton. He makes Edgar‘s proxy to get a loss. He arranges his son married Cathy to establish his inheritance of the Grange. We can clearly see his cruel behavior to Edgar, through a series of changes Edgar lost his sister, his wife and daughter even his own treasure. Heathcliff gets a total tri umph in the arrangement of Liton‘s daughter marries his child before Linton‘s death. In those chapters Heathcliff uses everyone to help him to complete the revenge. During those progresses, heathcliff took a blind eye on Linton.
2.4.2 His Death
In the nove l we can see the Heathcliff‘s love is very romantic present our presence. He loves Catherine so much. Readers may think that the root of causing Heathcliff‘s change is his departed with Catherine. When Catherine dies Heathcliff turned his hatred on other p eople around him. In Heathcliff‘s mind no one can replace Catherine. Just because of this he begins his revenge bitterly. Heathcliff expresses his complaints through both his words and actions. At last, all his imagination is related to Catherine. Except Catherine, Heathcliff thinks there is no one to care about him in the world. No matter what he sees he thinks that Catherine is around him. Everyday he thinks that the ghost of Catherine is following him. When he is going to die he becomes a kind man and feels very happy for he will meet Catherine in the heaven in a short time.
We can say that his death is a tragedy also happy ending for the lovers‘ reunite in heaven. His death is a kind of compensation for his lifetime love for Catherine, willingness to dead with his lover. All these can show his nature essentially is kind. His death is sublimation to this story. With his death, the novel finished its educational mission for the posterity. It gives us lessons. I think his death provide the author with a smoothly mainline description since that is the soul of this story. On the surface, his
death is nothing to do with the outside world. But I think it is the outside world forcing him to change from a kind person to a violent one. His death gives us more thoughts and teaches us more. Maybe it is comfortable for the reader Heathcliff and his lover Catherine can be together forever though his death. I think everybody would feel for his death and have impression on it.
2.5 The Probl ems Refl ected
In the novel we sho uld not only focuses on Heathcliff‘s cruel towards other people. Heathcliff‘s child life is worth sympathy. When this novel first published in 1840s, most people cannot accept it at all. During that period of time, English is in the great depression. All factory workers strike which appalls the upper class people. Therefore, that society gives workers great sympathy. From the aspect of literature, the phenomenon of smoky, threatening, and miserable destiny care all reflect that society. The poet William Blake who lives at the turning of nineteenth century thinks England as dark Satanic Mills. In this novel Heathcliff is a typical representative of that society compare to other characters. As members of upper class man take up large treasure but it is not so stable. In the first ten years of nineteenth-century, the whole British society is in the worse environment. The lower class people are the main part of the society. Though large sums of money are in the hand of noble man or upper class man their social status is not so stable. The most of gentry had no real power. A man may today is a rich man but after a night, he may become a poor man. There is a discussion of whether the noble man is a real gentleman. Many people think they are not gentleman at all because they are all selfish. They only care about their money and their family and they are willing not to contribute to the society. (Abraham, 1993:910)
Apart from Wuthering Heights reflecting the real fact that myriads of so called noble men are selfish and callous about this world, it also reveals the evil phenomena, and the colossal damage of secular hierarchical spirit to people in that society. Heathcliff is a extreme figure with passionate emotion, his pathetic experience bestow countless dissatisfaction, resistance as well as revenge on him. What he did is unbearable for all ordinary people, his extreme brutalities was beyond people‘s imagination. However, we cannot help to show sympathy for him sincerely for the reason that in more than half
of his life, he suffered all assorted of sadness and betrayals. And sadness, betrayal together with unswerving determination of revenge were rightly his motive power to support him to survive. When his human nature was recovery, he lost his motive power accordingly, and when all his love and hatred disappeared, death was his best destination. However, there is no denial that what Heathcliff impresses us most was his rebellious spirit, this kind of spirit was the discontentment and curse to the real life, yet it was the propelling force that push forward society to march on.
In Victorian times, secular hierarchical concept was on a rampage, money ranked first, and status talked. Under such circumstances, human spirit to a great extent was swingeingly suppressed, and human nature was ruthlessly twisted. And as a writer with rebellious spirit and free thought, Emily created the tragedy of the protagonist Heathcliff, which exposes the heinous phenomena in society at that time, and at the same time she sharply denounced the damage caused by secular hierarchical concept to human spirit. However, this work was not only demonstrated the dark side of society to us, but acquainted us with an inspirational power from Heathcliff‘s loyal pursuit of love to Catherine as well as from his indomitable struggle against fate, and it also disclosed the acid test and tough choice that human had to be encountered with when struggling to steer away from survival predicament and maintain the dignity of our human nature together with achieving the freedom of our inner world.
Chapter Three Heathcliff’s Tragic Attributes Reflected from His Mentality Course
No matter from thematic structure, or from artistic conception, Wuthering Heights manifests Emily Brontë‘s extraordinary originality,which is loomed large by the description of Heathcliff‘s overwhelmingly intense emotion, distinctive doughty love and hatred consciousness as well as cruel and merciless reprisal which all deeply draw reader‘s nerve, that‘s why Heathcliff was able to become one of the most complicated figure in English fiction history.
3.1 A Solitary Rebel with a Tragic Combination of Brutish Nature and Human Nature
After the publish of Wuthering Heights, the protagonist of Heathcliff aroused universal attention, and peo ple screamed with astonishment that: ―He is a devil, a heinous
monster that no one could matched him in literature. ‖ People regarded him as the embodiment of evil and tyrannism. And ―I have no pity, I have no pity. The more the worms writhe, the more I ye arn to crust out their entrails‖ could better demonstrate his morbid spirit of vengeance. Heathcliff, the intrusion of this rebellious orphan into Wuthering heights disrupted the quietness of this village where people‘s life is no longer peaceful. It is seemingly that he thoroughly incompatibles with Wuthering heights , and no one is willing to make him as one part of their lives, of course, no one could understand him. Therefore, we could easily comprehend that his leave and later return to this village are necessary. He ignited blazing fire of hatred relying on the mighty north wind in the Wilderland, he want to make everyone burnt to death. He spare no effort to do evils, and he tried all he can to turn the world into hell on earth. The isolation and rejection Wuthering heights showed to Heathcliff's necessarily deserved a stronger revenge, that‘s why he felt hostile to everyone. He despised that Edgar Lindon was a worthless wretch in the country estate, and he looked down upon Edgar‘s love to Catherine th at eighty years love from Edgar to Catherine is far less than his one day‘s love to Catherine, and Catherine‘s love to Edgar in his eyes is not equal to her love to dog and horse. And he also despised little Cathy that he never eager to see her. When Heathcliff regarded Edgar as lamb, and he was too vulnerable to stand upon, we know that the values of Heathcliff ensued from his primitive savage. In effect, in his inner heart, he distained Edgar, after he had heard what Catherine confessed to Nelly, he run away from Wuthering Heights for the purpose that he determined to transcend Edgar. However, when he came back three years later, he found that Catherine had already got married with Edgar, therefore, he turned his flames of fury to Edgar and Hindley. But ironically, birth, wealth as well as social status which are the measure value of the upper class are his revenge method. And finally, he possessed Wuthering Heights as well as Thrushcross Grange, and moreover, he threaten Hareton to vilifying, and how he treated Hareton was akin to how Hindley treated him, money and arranged marriage were exactly two major ways that he rebel Earnshaw and Linton family. When it comes to Hareton, we could grasp a kind of social value: crazy savage which is also the nature of Heathcliff. However, if we read in depth, it is easy for us to penetrate that revenge is just the way of Heathcliff to drain sufferings which formed years of bitterness as well as the rebellion against that crucial and unjust society. Heathcliff‘s free-spirited character which totally ignored social morality, and wantonly expressed love and hatred, had a unique shock to our mind which is strange distinct with myriads of contemporary figures in other works. In the consciousness of modern people, it is able to evocate an eternal kindness which is just like a strong light illuminate again the pale and poor inner world of modern people. Furthermore, it is also easy to find that his extreme hatred originated from his extreme love that is his maniac love to Catherine. This kind of love surpasses the limitation of life and death. When Catherine chose to die for her intense inner conflict, Heathcliff even unfold her grave and embraced her died body and desired to die with her so that his soul could combine with her. The whole life of Heathcliff agglomerate the most intense love and hatred in the world, this kind of extreme, violent and bullheaded love and hatred is unbearable for the common people. Wuthering Heights was ended with the realization of Healthcliff‘s revenge as well as。