1、Its known as“19th centurys most peculiar novel”and“a soul of drama”.It releases unique,shining and splendid glory in the brilliant literary constellation of the nineteenth century.Emily BrontThis novel is famous for the gothic styles as well as its theme.It tells the tale of the all-encompassing and
2、 passionate,yet thwarted,love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw,and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and people around them.causes of the tragedynarrative modeimage analysis symbols in the novelShe suffered from poverty of physical world and helplessness of spiritual worl
3、d.Loneliness made her the physical and emotional world full of a sense of extreme disappointment and shattered.Therefore,Emily desired to express her feeling through the love tragedy of rich and intense fantasy features,and expressed her strong dissatisfaction with social reality.These just created
4、the conditions for the birth of Wuthering Heights.This tragedy is also caused by the two characters personalities.The class difference is the direct cause which leads to their love tragedy.Wuthering Heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art of the stresses and tensions and conflicts,p
5、ersonal and spiritual,of nineteenth-century capitalist society.Arnold KettleThe innovation of narrative modeThis is the first novel that employs flashback.The novel breaks the traditional way of narration,but to create two characters Mr.Lockwood and Nelly Dean to tell the story.The success of Wuther
6、ing Heights is,in part,owing to the use of flashback.“one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge,by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house;and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way,as if craving alms of the sun.”房屋那头有几颗矮小的枞树过度倾斜
7、，还有一排瘦削的荆棘都向着一个方向伸展枝条，放佛在向太阳乞讨温暖。由此就可以猜想到北风吹过的威力了。The image analysisThe trees cant stand straightly because the winds here are so strong and force the trees to fall to one side.Here the winds means the pressure from the society,and the trees means the human nature.“Now,my bonny lad,youre mine.Lets s
8、ee if one tree wont grow as crooked as another,with the same wind to twist it.”Here one tree stands for Hareton,and another tree stands for Haethcliff.The symbols in the novel“I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio,and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam,that she
9、 suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.I flung her back,and hastened to interpose the table between us.”The descriptions of dogs express the peoples cold and indifferent in the Heights.不幸我又对这三只狗挤挤眼，做做鬼脸，我脸上的某种变化如此激怒了狗夫人，它忽然暴怒，跳上我的膝盖。我把它推开，赶忙拉过一张桌子做挡箭牌。The names of the two main places in t
10、he novel-Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.Thrushcorss Grange is set in a well-landscapes park and sheltered from the wild elements.The style of the house is beautiful and splendid.“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr.Heathcliffs dwelling.“Wuthering”being a significant provincial adjective,de
11、scriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.”呼啸山庄是希刺克厉夫先生的住宅名称。“呼啸”是一个意味深长的内地形容词，形容这地方在风暴的天气里所受的气压骚动。These two places represent two different kinds of characters,intense and gentle.Wuthering Heights is a land of storm.It is irritable,rough,violent,energetic
12、and constantly being torn by strong passions.The repetition of the characters names The names of the second generation are the repetitions of the first one,such as Catherine and Linton.Actually the story happens in a closed society,and the author hardly mentions anything about the outside world.But
13、we can see the whole England from the closed society.Its not only the love between Heathcliff and Catherine.Isabella Linton伊莎贝拉Heathcliff希斯克利夫Catharine Earnshaw凯瑟琳Earnshaw恩肖先生Hindley Earnshaw辛迪尼夫妻兄妹兄妹相爱父女父子Edgar Linton埃德加 养父子Haraton Earnshaw哈里顿父子夫妻Linton Heathcliff 孩子Catharine Linton父女母女后结婚先结婚She lo
14、oked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book.That gigantic ambition is to be felt throughout the novel a struggle,half thwarted but of superb conviction,to say something through the mouths of her characters which is not merely“I love”or“I hate”,but“we,the whole human race”and“you,the eternal powers”the sentence remains unfinished.Virginia Woolf
