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The Book Report of Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is a very famous novel which is written by the British writer ----Emily Bronte, who is one of the most remarkable novelists of the 19th in English literature. The whole book is full of strong spirit of the struggle against oppression, the struggle for happiness, and always hangs over the strange, nervous romantic atmosphere. When Wuthering Heights was firstly published, it was seen as the young woman writer’s naive fantasy divorcing from the reality. But as time went on, based on the description of social phenomenon of British and the fierce class struggle, it soon achieved highly affirmation of the critics, and was warmly welcomed by the public. Wuthering Heights, containing plentiful emotions, sublime love and a variety of world viewpoints as well as life philosophy, is regarded as the strangest novel in the history of English literature.

The novel Wuthering Heights is full of love and hatred which are both conflicted and combined. The impressive, relentless and vigorous love arouses implacable emotions in depth of the reader’s heart with its ultimate passion, infatuation and great miseries. The hatred from the deepest bottom of the heart, which has brought so many pains, shocks the reader’s brain.

Wuthering Heights, through a tragic love story, shows a picture of life in an abnormal society, and outlines humanity distorted by this terrible abnormal society and resulting horrible events. The whole story is actually spread gradually through four stages. The first stage describes the happy childhood of Heathcliff and Catherine; Special feelings are formed in the special environment between an orphan and a young lady, and they give Sindre the bossy tyranny. The second stage emphatically describes that Catherine betrays Heathcliff because of her vanity, ignorant and fatuity and then become the hostess of Thrushcross grange. The third stage has an emphasis on depicting how Heathcliff turns hatred and despair into the strategy and action of revenge. The final stage just tells the Heathcliff's death. However, it reveals that when Heathcliff knows that Harry and Katie are in love, he experiences a new change in thought ---- the recovery of human nature, which adds a bunch of reassuring light of

hope to this horrif ic love tragedy. Therefore, Heathcliff’s love to hate to revenge to the recovery of human nature, is not only the essence of the novel, but also a main line throughout the whole novel, from the beginning to the end. According to this sequence of changes, the author arranges to change the scenes unpredictably, s ometimes in overcast, wail like ghosts and howl like wolves’ wilderness, and sometimes in stormy, gloomy miserable dark garden, so that the whole story has been shrouded in a mysterious and terrible atmosphere.

In this novel, the author puts all efforts to concentrate on depicting the image of Heathcliff where she places all her sympathy, indignation and ideal. The orphan who is deprived of the warmth cultivates strong love and hate in real life. Sindre’s bossy tyranny makes him undergo the cruelty of life, and it also teaches him to understand that swallow insult and humiliation silently yield cannot alter their destiny. He chooses the revolt. Catherine was ever his faithful partner, and they had a sincere love in the common revolt. However, Catherine finally betrayed him and married Edgar Layton who she didn’t know and love. The direct cause of the love tragedy is her vanity, ignorant and stupid. The result not only ruins her own youth, love and life, but also destroys Heathcliff who is always passionately devoted to her, still brings about a little hurt to the next generation. When Emily Bronte portrays this character, her mood is very complex: she has the sympathy and the indignation; she has the regret and the whip; she has the mourning and the misfortune. Catherine's betrayal and sorrow destiny after marriage is the most significant turning point of the novel. It turns Heathcliff’s immense love into profound hate. After Catherine's death, his cavity hatred bursts out, and turns into the crazy revenge power. This crazy revenge of spite, seemingly contradictory to common sense, but most incisively expresses his unusual rebellious spirit, this is a special resistance determined by a special environment and special character. Heathcliff's love tragedy is the tragedy of the society, and the tragedy of the times. The end of the novel is that Heathcliff committed suicide. His death is a die for their love, and expresses his undying love for Catherine. Before he died, he gave up the revenge of the next generation. This reflects that he actually has a good nature, but the cruel reality makes him lose his nature. The recovery of humanity