英语论文呼啸山庄

毕业论文题目：Return to Nature – On the Conflict between

Nature and Civilization in Wuthering

Heights

摘要

艾米莉·勃朗特是英国维多利亚时期一名杰出的作家。她短暂的一生只留下一部杰作－－《呼啸山庄》。这部小说因其永久的魅力和广泛的畅销被列为世界名着。然而，这部小说的价值直到二十世纪才被人们重新发现。随着时间的推移，她的小说越来越受到关注。一百多年来，学术界对其小说《呼啸山庄》分别从主题、主旨、写作技巧、语言风格、女性主义、生态批评等不同角度进行过研究。本文从象征主义的角度来解读自然和文明的关系，二者之间相互斗

Abstract

Emily Bront? is a brilliant writer in Victorian Age. In her short life, she writes only one novel, Wuthering Heights, which has become a worldwide classic for its enduring interest and wide popularity. However, the novel is ignored by the readers and critics of the Victorian Age. It is not until the 20th century that the true value of the novel is discovered. As time passes by, her novel has gained more and more attention. Throughout the hundred years the scholars have attained remarkable

Contents

1. Introduction (1)

2. The Life of Nature in Wuthering Heights (3)

2.1 Wuthering Heights—the Symbol of Nature (3)

2.2 The Wilderness of Catherine and Heathcliff (4)

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1. Introduction

Emily Bront?, the well-known novelist in English literary history, is the most accomplished among the Bront? Sisters. All her life she only writes one novel, Wuthering Heights, which is published in 1947 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. This book gives her worldwide fame. It is termed as one of the most shocking and charming works in the world literature. Algernon Charles Swinburne, the distinguished critic of England, puts that Emily is a genius of tragedy and her novel

the contradiction of her age through the interesting story. As E.M. Frost interprets Wuthering Heights, “the e motions of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw function differently to other emotions in fiction...they surround them like thunder clouds, and generate the explosions that fills the novel. Wuthering Heights is filled with

sound-storm and rushing wind, a soun d more important than words and thoughts.” (Frost,2001:66) David Cecil said that Wuthering Heights is a symbol of natural philosophy of Emily and what Emily wants to display is the conflict between storm

and serenity of the cosmos instead of that of the goodness and the wickedness in the society. (Cecil,2002:180)

The relation between nature and civilization undoubtedly catches the eyes of the academia. Foreign scholars get a lot of remarkable achievements about this novel. Stevie Davies says that although nature and civilization is in constant fierce dialogue, nature will tame and nourish nature just as little Catherine conquers Hareton with knowledge. (Davies,2004:247) Cecil reveals that there are the opposite forces in the

uneventful love is the result of the struggle between personality and culture. (周庆贺,2003:77-78) Fu Xiaoping thinks that people have wonderful humanity and the civilization is the best direction for people. (付小平,2009:42-43)

In this paper I want to discuss the conflict between nature and civilization in terms of the symbolism. This paper will be divided into four parts. The first part is introduction. This part will focus on the importance of the writer and scholars’ achievements on Wuthering Heights. The second part is chapter one. In this part I will