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题目：简析《呼啸山庄》中爱情悲剧的必然性

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学生：王青翠

指导老师：军平

大学外语学院制

2009年10 月

Brief Analysis Love Tragedies’Inevitability on

Wuthering Heights

Wang Qingcui

Tutor: Liu Junping

October 2009

论文摘要

《呼啸山庄》——才华洋溢的女作家艾米莉·勃朗特唯一的小说，在英国十九世纪文坛的灿烂星群中放出独特的、闪着异彩的光辉。它被誉为“19世纪最奇特的小说”、“一出灵魂的戏剧”、“一个女作家所能写出的最好的散文诗”。

真正意义上接触《呼啸山庄》是在英美文学课上，世人都为希斯克利夫与凯瑟琳那种撕心裂肺的爱而震撼。毛姆认为小说中最感人的就是希斯克利夫和凯瑟琳的爱情，他说“我从未读过像《呼啸山庄》这样把爱情的痛苦、强烈、残酷描写得如此逼真的小说”。

他们的爱在震撼人的同时有给后人留下了更多的思考。爱情从其在人类精神中形成至今，始终带上了浓郁的悲剧色彩。它的悲剧总是滋生于有它所特有的社会根源与时代的局限性，主人公的个性特点、矛盾的心理是推动其发展的动力。他们的悲剧是一种必然性。本文主要揭示其社会根源与时代的局限性对《呼啸山庄》中的爱情的重大影响，同时考察了男女主人公在行动上、性格上和对待爱情和婚姻的态度及差异。最终指出他们的爱就像荒原上的北风一样，狂野、暴虐、无所阻挡，完全突破了既有的爱情模式，是超越现实的、非人类的爱情，是注定悲剧的。他们的爱情悲剧是社会的悲剧，是时代的悲剧，也是他们自我所造的悲剧。

关键词：呼啸山庄；艾米莉·勃朗特；爱情悲剧

Abstract

Wuthering Heights --- the talented English writer's only novel. It releases unique, shining and splendid glory in the brilliant literary constellation of the nineteenth century. It is known as "19th century's most peculiar novel", "a soul of drama" and "a writer could write the best prose poem".

On real significance, it’s in the Anglo-American literature class that I am familiar with Wuthering Heights. All the people are shocking by this kind piercing love of Heathcliff and Catherine. Somerset Maugham thinks that the most touching thing in Wuthering Heights is the love of Heathcliff and Catherine. And he said he has never read such a realistic novel as Wuthering Heights that puts the pain, strong and cruel description into love.

Their love shocks people, at the same time; it also leaves many thoughts to posterity. Love has always been to bring rich colors to the tragedy from its formation of the human spirit. Its tragedy is always there to breed in the characteristic social roots and its limitations of the times, and the hero's personality and ambivalence are to promote its development. Their tragedy is inevitability.

In this paper, it will reveal that the social roots and limitations make quite an impact on Wuthering Heights and it will study the heroes' differences in action and attitude towards love and marriage. Finally, it will point out that their love is like the north wind on the moors, wild and violent. And the love which is beyond the realistic breaks through the original model .It is doomed to tragedy. The tragedy is the social tragedy, the times' tragedy, but also their self-made tragedy. It is inevitability.

Key Words: Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte; Love Tragedy.

Brief Analysis Love Tragedy’ Inevitability on

Wuthering Heights

Ⅰ.Introduction

Published in l847, Emily Bronte’s masterpiece Wuthering Heights countered with countless unfavorable voices and utterances. For several generations, the Wuthering Heights has been exerting great fascinations over its readers. Although Wuthering Heights is her only novel but it certainly proves her genius in rendering captivating description and super passion.

It tells a story about love and revenge. In the 19th century, one strange boy named Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights from Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw. He lives with Earnshaw’s son Hindley and daughter Catherine. Hindley hates Heathcliff, while Catherine likes him. After Earnshaw died, Hindley becomes the leader of the family and he regards Heathcliff as servant, so Heathcliff is insulted and ill-treated. However, Catherine and Heathcliff become good friends and love each other gradually. Mr. Edgar the next door often visits Wuthering Heights to pursue Catherine and she also shows love to him, too. When she agrees to marry Edgar, Heathcliff goes away with anger. As time goes on, Heathcliff brings love, jealousy, hatred, and revenge into the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It does not bring him real comfort to ruin other people’s happiness. Heathcliff is immersed in mental pain and eventually he destroys himself and dies of despondent.

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Catherine revolt Hindley’s punishment and run in the wilderness. They are lonely children. On this point, they are identical in spirit and soul. When Catherine betrays Heathcliff and marries to Edgar, they lost echo of souls and thus both of them suffer a great pain. Finally, they had no choice but to death to negate the physical separation, in order to achieve the soul. Their love is associated with the abnormal and the absurd.

Ⅱ. Creative background

2.1 Social origin

The love tragedy reflects the social background. The society is the source of the love tragedy. As we all know, Emily Bronte lived in Victorian Times for three decades. Those three decades are the era of unrest society in the United Kingdom. That time, the Industrial Revolution affected all