浅谈《呼啸山庄》中希斯克利夫的人性复苏

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Abstract Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, a woman writer in the nineteenth century English literature. The plot of the novel is organized by the love story between Heathcliff and Catherine. Love—hatred—revenge—restoration of humanity on Heathcliff is not only the essence of the novel, but also the clue of the novel. This thesis mainly focuses on the theme of Heathcliff’s restoration of humanity by analyzing the text and reviewing Heathcliff’s experience of life. The first chapter is the brief introduction of the writer and the story. The second chapter focuses on the literature review both at home and abroad. The third chapter introduces the loss of humanity in Heathcliff, and then reveals the conflict within Heathcliff between love and hatred to show Heathcliff’s resistance against his fate. Besides, it analyses the recurrence of humanity in Heathcliff, which helps readers understand the novel better. In conclusion, through the recurrence of humanity in Heathcliff, the writer intends to reveal that human beings’ kind nature will be on the upper hand whatever happens. 56290

Keywords: Wuthering Heights; Heathcliff; humanity; recurrence

摘要《呼啸山庄》是十九世纪英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特生平创作的唯一一部小说。小说的故事情节主要是围绕希斯克厉夫和凯瑟琳的爱情展开的,希斯克厉夫的“爱—恨—复仇—人性复归”既是小说的精髓,又是贯穿作品始终的线索。本文采用文本分析法,通过对希斯克厉夫的个人生活历程回顾,探讨希斯克厉夫的人性回归这一主题。首先，文章介绍了希斯克利夫人性的丧失，内心深处爱与恨的挣扎以及他与命运的抵抗。文章最后分析了希斯克利夫人性的回归，帮助读者更好地理解主题。作家通过解释希斯克利夫人性的复苏，揭示了无论发生什么，人性的自然之美都会占上风这一主题。

毕业论文关键词：《呼啸山庄》；希斯克利夫；人性；复苏

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. The Loss of Humanity in Heathcliff 3

3.1 A Cloudy, Cruel, Mad and Evil Man 3

3.2 Death of Mental Support 4

3.3 Death of Human Nature 4

4. Conflict within Heathcliff between Love and Hatred 5

4.1 Torment of Heathcliff’s Inner Being 5

4.2 Heathcliff's Resistance against his Fate 7

5. The Recurrence of Humanity 8

5.1 Strength from the Betrayal of Pure Love 9

5.2 The Recurrence of Humanity 10

6. Conclusion 11

1. Introduction

In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the capitalism in England achieved a full-way development. After that, the class conditions became increasingly acute and mass campaigns rolled on with full force: Luther Movement, the Parliamentary Reforms in 1832, the struggles in order to increase the factory conditions and oppose the Poor Law Bastilles of 1834, the Chartist Movement from 1838 to 1848. All the struggles centered on west Yorkshire in the north England. Emily Bronte, the authoress of Wuthering Heights, was practically living in isolation, in a distant village of Haworth, a lonely village set in wild moors of Yorkshire. However, the sensitive writer wouldn't be affected by the disordered and confused social fighting. Although Wuthering Heights doesn’t represent the conflicts between the working class and the capitalist class, the readers with the sharp eyes can get a meaning of social contradictions from the story and the complicated relationships. The story of Wuthering Heights is related to two symmetrical families and a lonely orphan. The Earnshaws are rough in manner, including Mr. Earnshaw, his son Hindley, and his daughter Catherine. They live in their old house, Wuthering Heights, the wild places. The Linton family, richer and more genteel, includes Mr. Linton, his wife, his son Edgar, and his daughter Isabella, and they live down in a neighboring valley at Thrush cross Grange. One day Mr. Earnshaw brings home an ugly looking little boy he finds in the streets of Liverpool. Catherine loves Heathcliff; While Hindley hates him, being jealous of his father’s love for the stranger comer. After the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley baits Heathcliff in every method he can. Heathcliff grows cruel and heartless, and Catherine turns from him to the gentleman Edgar Linton. Heathcliff runs away and returns when Catherine has become Edgar’s wife. Heathcliff is now rich and is determined to take revenge on Hindley and the Lintons. Between Heathcliff and Edgar, Catherine becomes distracted. She gives birth to Edgar’s daughter and dies. Heathcliff turns Hindley into a drunkard and gambler and wins all his professions so that Hindley’s son Hareton becomes a beggar in his house. Moreover, he makes a decision to marry Edgar Linton’s vain and normal sister Isabella, and marries Linton’s daughter, the younger Catherine, to his own perish ailing son, Linton Heathcliff. But Catherine and Hareton, who love each other, fail all his revenge. Heathcliff dies as a defeated man. After his death, people see the ghost image of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw wondering on the moor.