呼啸山庄 人物分析(Character Analysis of Wuthering Heights )

Catherine




childhood--naughty high spirits wild innocent wicked facing marriage--material when Heathcliff left--prounder violent fierce after marriage--self-centered
Edga
He is a gentleman, well-mannered and graceful. But he dosen't win Catherine's true love. His sister and daughter also obey his wishes.He is just designed as a foil for Heathcliff.
Nelly
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She serves as both outsider and insider when she narrates the story.She is the other who is kind to Heathcliff besides Catherine. She is sensible knowing how the people around her think, but won't tell them how to do the right things.instead she enjoys the confict around her.
Cathy
she is a spirited girl.Her wildness and willfulness lead her to Wuthering Heights Her loyalty, good nature, and perseverance, eventually restore order.Her love to the farmhouse, hindering Heathcliff's plans for revenge.She is designed better than her mother.
Hareton
He is better than his father. although Heathcliff teaches him all sorts of vulgaries and deprives him of heritage,he does not bear a grudge towards Heathcliff.And he loves his father and has esteem.No wander Cathy woud fall in love with him.
Linton

He is a very weak child and his character resembles Heathcliff's, though without its only redeeming feature: love. He marries Cathy Linton, but only under the direction of his father
Catherine faces a choose between nature and social status. Her decision to marry Edgar over Heathcliff has been seen as a surrender to social status, and has implications for all the characters of Wuthering Heights. The character of Catherine has been analysed by many forms of literary criticism, including: psychoanalytic and feminist.
Isabella

She loves Heathcliff, despite she knows Heathcliff deeply loves Catherine.Heathcliff makes full use of her.She is an unwitting tool in his plot for revenge. The character of Isabella's abusive treatment has led many, especially feminist critics, to consider her the true 'tragic romantic' figure of Wuthering Heights.
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Heathcliff
patient and unsmiling impolite and rough distinct sense of love and hate think love as all vengeful strong-willed, uncontrolled seem miserable,but invincible forgive at last
Hindly

He is a negative character:pround and fierce. And he finally ruines the Earnshaw family with his drinking and gambling under Heathcliff's plan. He is set as a foil for Heathcliff.

He and Catherine's love becomes the central theme of the first volume; his revenge and its consequences are the main theme of the second volume. Heathcliff is typically considered a Byronic hero.His position in society, without status, is often the subject of Marxist criticism.