英语读物读后感

An Analysis of Heathcliff's Fall into the Abyss of Revenge and the Return of Humanity in Wuthering Heights

班级：英国文学简史及选读1班

姓名：张艳

专业：财务管理

学号：WSE17075

[Abstract]Wuthering Heights is known as the "most bizarre novel" in the history of English literature. Its author is Emily Bronte, a famous British poet and novelist of the 19th century.The novel is based on the gap between the rich and the poor brought about by the prosperous economic development of Victoria. It portrays the obstacles between Heathcliff and Catherine in love, which led to Heathcliff's love and hate. Finally, step by step to the road of revenge.With her unique female insight, Emily pinned the humanity she cares about in the characters of Wuthering Heights, which created the complexity of human nature, and revealed the true nature of human nature, revealing to us the return and purification of the male protagonist after self-lost in hatred.

[Key words] Wuthering Heights; Heathcliff; Revenge; Humanity Return

Chapter One Introduction

1.1Background Introduction

The author Emily lived in the United Kingdom in the 1930s, and this was exactly the period of relative turmoil in British society.The rapid development of capitalism has gradually exposed its contradictions and defects. The conflict between laborers and capitalists is growing, the unemployed workers are in a very poor state, and countless child laborers are tortured to death.Coupled with the British government's high-handed approach to the struggle for democratic reform and the workers' movement: the Peter Road massacre in 1818 is an example. Emily often walks with her sisters to the wilderness in the west. Therefore, on the one hand, Bronte sisters saw the capitalist society that is developing in the

town, and on the other hand, they were infected by the wilderness atmosphere. Emily lives in such a society, and the Yorkshire Mountains where she lives provide a lot of inspiration for her later creations. [1]Emily used the people living in Yorkshire as a blueprint for the material, and the lines between the lines revealed the cruelty of life.It is in this context that the author is constantly exploring the human nature.

1.2Story introduction

"Wuthering Heights" is a tragic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine by Allen telling Lockwood about the entanglement between Wuthering Heights and the Grange.The story takes place on a gloomy wasteland in Yorkshire. Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, adopted an unidentified Gypsy boy and named him Heathcliff.Because of Mr. Ear nshaw’s excessive love for Heathcliff, it caused the hatred of Mr. Ear nshaw’s son, Hindle y.After the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley inherited the manor and turned Heathcliff into a slave, causing him to suffer all kinds of humiliation and threats, destroying the love between Heathcliff and ter, Catherine decided to marry Edgar, the heir to the Grange, and Heathcliff ran away from home. Three years later, Heathcliff came back gracefully. Catherine had married Edgar, but she was not happy. At this time, he began a series of revenge actions. He married Edgar's sister Isabella, and after the marriage, Heathcliff's cruelty and ruthlessness allowed Isabella to try to escape. Later, Catherine gave birth to her daughter and died, and soon Hindley also died, and his son Hareton fell into Heathcliff's hands.Heathcliff trained him into an illiterate barbarian and let him endure his childhood experiences. At the height of