呼啸山庄人物分析

• Catharine is spoken highly of the previous
love to Heathcliff beca百度文库se their love is to
build up o n the base of understanding and
rebellion together. And her love for
to be pitied! I shall not pity you, not I. You
have killed me - and thriven on it, I think.”
--Catharine
• I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression. It formed a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful. I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual. -- Mr. Lockwood
人 物 分 析
王 思 佳
Character
• Hindley Earnshaw - Insuler,fierce. • Isabella Linton-Implusive, romantic, miserable. • Hareton Earnshaw -Rude, kindhearted, proud • Catherine Linton - headstrong, impetuous, occasional arrogant, gentler and more compassionate than her mother. • Linton Heathcliff - Fainthearted selfish, disagreeable, unkind
in her character judges her to be both a rebel
and a compromiser.
• After the death of her father Catharine is maltreated by his brother and gets a little warm from the family. She is often punished by standing and is given numerous scolding by Heathcliff. And they become close friends. • They help each other and stand rebelling against the persecution by Hindley.
• Edger is very different form Catharine and
Heathcliff. He is severe family, very wealth
and gentle. He is constant and mild.
• Many people don‟t like him for that he is flabby and he is nothing like a man.
• He falls in love with Catherine so crazily and unselfishly that she is his whole world, his hope and dream.
• “ When would you catch me wishing to have what Catherine wanted? or find us by ourselves, seeking entertainment in yelling, and sobbing, and rolling on the ground, divided by the whole room? I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange - not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable, and painting the housefront with Hindley's blood!”
• But he gives Catharine a comfortable life and warmness. He tolerate Heathcliff not because he is flabby but because he loves Catharine and he is real gentleman. • But in my opinion, although when he was young, he cried like a lamp he becomes tough as an adult.
• “I used to draw a comparison between him
Catharine
• Catharine is a complicate figure. She has both
thoughts of freedom and spirit of revolt and
vanity and class prejudice. This kind of duality
Heathcliff„ s destructive force is unlashed
and he sets on the rode of revenge. His
vindictive hatred is another main moving
force in his life.
Three years later, Heathcliff returns with
between her nature and her
• Considering marriage, Catharine thinks that Edger is rich and she would be proud of having such a husband. At last she can‟t resist the material benefit and marries Edger. This makes Heathcliff leave.
wealth and awful revenge.
• But all his evil behaviors reflects other side of his personality: endless love of
Catharine and fearless rebelling to the fate.
overjoyed ,being Mrs. Linton she tries to
leading a peaceful life. She wants her
husband to accept Heathcliff. She is busy with reconciling the two.
• Finally Edger can‟t bear Heatharine any more. He asks Catharine to choose one between him and Heathcliff.
Heathcliff was natural and pure, only for
love‟s sake.
• However the turning point comes when
Catharine returns from Thrushcross
Grange after five-week-stay. • From then Catharine begins to struggle
Complexity -- a man bears between love and hatred
• As a child, he lives a miserable life. Catherine is the only person whom Heathcliff can turn to for his sorrow and complaint is the sole support of his life.
• She has not only betrayed Hearhcliff but also has betrayed herself.
• They live a peaceful life for three years,
then Heatharine comes back. Catharine is
Heathcliff
• “…. He's not a rough diamond - a pearlcontaining oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce,
pitiless, wolfish man…….. avarice is
growing with him a besetting sin. There's
• In desperation, she choose to destroy
herself .
• “You and Edgar have broken my heart,
Heathcliff! And you both come to bewail
the deed to me, as if you were the people
my picture
-- Catherine
Also • He is a man full of courage and inspiration.
He looks down upon the conventional
norms and longs for a purer and freer
inner world.
miserable man.
• “she put all of us past our patience fifty times and oftener in a day. Her spirits were always at high-water mark. A wild, wicked slip she was - but she had the bonniest eye, the sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.” -- By Mrs. Dean
• Little Catharine once said to Heathcliff: “ Mr. Heathcliff you have nobody to love you……your cruelty arises from your
greater misery.” I think he is also a