最新呼啸山庄英文简介及人物评价

Wuthering Heights
Thrushcross Grange
Hale Waihona Puke Plot• Opening (chapters 1 to 3) • Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17) • Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31) • Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
呼啸山庄英文简介及人物评 价
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She died at the age of 30. She remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about her is sparse, due to her solitary and reclusive nature. She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.
• However, Catherine confesses to Nelly that she will marry Edgar Linton, who lives in Thrushcross Grange , although her love for Edgar is not comparable to her love for Heathcliff, whom she cannot marry because of his low social status and lack of education. Heathcliff overhears this and in despair runs away.
Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17)
• Thirty years earlier, Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw, with his son Hindley and his daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless gypsy boy. He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his father's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and become close. Three years later, Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.
• Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Heathcliff thus finds himself master of Wuthering Heights becuase Hindley owns him money. Heathcliff teaches Hareton bad habits as revenge. And Isabella leaves Heathcliff and gives birth to a son, Linton.
Opening (chapters 1 to 3)
• In 1801, Mr Lockwood, a wealthy man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north for peace. He visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff and he finds an odd assemblage which arouses his curiosity.After Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange, he asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale.
• Later, Heathcliff returns, now a wealthy gentleman. Catherine has married Edgar. Edgar's sister, Isabella, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, who despises her but encourages the infatuation as a means of revenge. Upset, Catherine locks herself in her room, and begins to make herself ill again through spite and jealousy. Finally Heathcliff marries Isabella and Catherine dies after giving birth to her daughter, Cathy.