1、ppt课件1Wuthering Heightsppt课件2Emily Bront Emily Bront was an English novelist and poet,best remembered for her only novel,Wuthering Heights,now considered a classic of English literature.She died at the age of 30.She remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about
2、 her is sparse,due to her solitary and reclusive nature.She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.ppt课件3Wuthering HeightsThrushcross Grangeppt课件4Plot Opening(chapters 1 to 3)Heathcliffs childhood(chapters 4 to 17)Heathcliffs maturity(chapters 18 to 31)Ending(chapters 32 to 34)ppt
3、课件5Opening(chapters 1 to 3)In 1801,Mr Lockwood,a wealthy man from the south of England,rents Thrushcross Grange in the north for peace.He visits his landlord,Mr Heathcliff and he finds an odd assemblage which arouses his curiosity.After Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange,he asks the housekeeper,Nel
4、ly Dean,about the family at Wuthering Heights,and she tells him the tale.ppt课件6Heathcliffs childhood(chapters 4 to 17)Thirty years earlier,Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw,with his son Hindley and his daughter Catherine.On a trip to Liverpool,Earnshaw encounters a homeless gypsy boy.He a
5、dopts the boy and names him Heathcliff.Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his fathers affections and becomes bitterly jealous.Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and become close.Three years later,Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights.He returns to li
6、ve there with his new wife,Frances.He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.ppt课件7ppt课件8 However,Catherine confesses to Nelly that she will marry Edgar Linton,who lives in Thrushcross Grange,although her love for Edgar is not comparable to her love for Heathcliff,whom she cannot marry beca
7、use of his low social status and lack of education.Heathcliff overhears this and in despair runs away.Later,Heathcliff returns,now a wealthy gentleman.Catherine has married Edgar.Edgars sister,Isabella,soon falls in love with Heathcliff,who despises her but encourages the infatuation as a means of r
8、evenge.Upset,Catherine locks herself in her room,and begins to make herself ill again through spite and jealousy.Finally Heathcliff marries Isabella and Catherine dies after giving birth to her daughter,Cathy.ppt课件9ppt课件10 Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Heathcliff thus finds himself mas
9、ter of Wuthering Heights becuase Hindley owns him money.Heathcliff teaches Hareton bad habits as revenge.And Isabella leaves Heathcliff and gives birth to a son,Linton.ppt课件11Heathcliffs maturity(chapters 18 to 31)After twelve years,Catherines daughter Cathy grows into a beautiful,high-spirited girl
10、.Later Isabella dies,and her son Linton has to come back.When Linton returns,a weak and sickly boy,his father Heathcliff insists that he live at Wuthering Heights.The following year,Heathcliff and Linton trick Cathy and Nelly into entering Wuthering Heights and forces Cathy and Linton into marriage.
11、Several days after their marrige,Edgar dies,and Heathcliff become the master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.Soon after that,Linton dies.ppt课件12Ending(chapters 32 to 34)Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy,but she retreats and then withdraws from the world.But later they become close.W
12、hile their friendship developed,Heathcliff began to act strangely and had visions of Catherine.He stopped eating and after four days was found dead in Catherines old room.He was buried next to Catherine.Hareton and Cathy plan to marry on New Years Day.ppt课件13Characters Heathcliff Catherine Earnshawp
13、pt课件14 Heathcliff:Found,presumably orphaned,on the streets of Liverpool and taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw where he is reluctantly cared for by the family.He and Catherine grow close and their love is the central theme of the first volume.His revenge against the man she chooses to marry a
14、nd its consequences are the central theme of the second volume.Heathcliff has been considered a Byronic hero,but critics have pointed out that he re-invents himself at various points,making his character hard to fit into any single type.ppt课件15deserted loved by Catherinedeserted by Catherinerevenger
15、evive of humanityppt课件16 Catherine Earnshaw:She is not a good girl as her father said.She is wild and sometimes irritable but sometimes gentle.The love between Catherine and Heathcliff is also not as others.They even fight with each other.She seems unsure whether she is or wants to become more like
16、Heathcliff,or more like Edgar.It is as if she wants both,even perhaps cannot be fully herself without both,and yet society or human nature makes that impossible.Some critics have argued that her decision to marry Edgar Linton is allegorically a rejection of nature and a surrender to culture a choice
17、 with fateful consequences for all the other characters.In my opinion,the vanity of Catherine makes her betried Heathcliff,which influences all peoples fate later.ppt课件17 Ive no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven;and if the wicked man in there,had not brought Heathcliff
18、so low I shouldnt have thought of it.It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now;so he shall never know how I love him;and that,not because hes handsome,Nelly,but because hes more myself than I am.Whatever our souls are made of,his and mine are the same,and Lintons is as different as a moonbeam from lightning,or frost from fire.ppt课件18My Opinion Never give up the man you love most or there will be a tragedy.
