英语本科毕业论文The Victim of RevengeOn Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

1、the victim of revenge-on emily brontes wuthering heightsi the brief introduction1.1 the brief introduction to the authorthe wuthering heights is the only novel of english woman writer emily bronte. it was published in 1848.and the writer emily bronte was born on july 30,1818, at thornton in yorkshir

2、e, the fifth of six children of patrick and maria bronte. two years of her birth, her father was appointed curate of haworth, an isolated village on the moors. in 1821, shortly after emilys third birthday, her mother died of cancer. in 1824, emily and her three sisters were sent to cowan bridge scho

3、ol, a school for daughters of impoverished clergymen. the conditions were harsh and an epidemic soon broke out, taking the life of her two elder sisters. charlotte became very ill as well, and she and emily were sent home. during the following years at howarth, charlotte, emily, and anne, along with

4、 their brother branwell, had a great deal of freedom to explore the surrounding countryside. the lonely purple moors became one of the most shaping forces in emilys life. and her fathers bookshelf offered a variety of reading. in 1835, emily went to the roe head school where charlotte was then teach

5、ing. emily managed to stay only three months before her nerve became too frazzled and she had to go home. emily found a teaching job at law hill school in september 1838. though she managed to do all right in her first term, her health broke under the stress and she returned home around april 1839.

6、in 1842, charlotte dragged emily to a school in brussls. emily did well but made no friends, as was typical for her. she went back home as soon as she possibly could. emily begins writing poems at an early age and published twenty-one of them, together with poem by anne and charlotte, in 1846. the s

7、lim volume was title pomes by currer, ellis, and acton bell. only two copies were sold, and the failure led all three to begin work on novels, emily on wuthering heights. in 1848, branwell became addicted to both drug and alcohol and soon died. emily caught a cold at his funeral and never left home

8、again. she died of tuberculosis on december 19, 1848, at the age of thirty, and never knew the great success of her only novel wuthering heights.1.2 the contents of the workswuthering heights is generally considered one of the most original works. in many aspects, it is unique and has no counterpart

9、s in mode as well as in manner of writing.the story of wuthering heights is concerned with two symmetrical families. the earnshaws, rough in manner, include mr. earnshaw, his son hindley, and his daughter catherine. they live in their old house, wuthering height, up in the folds of the moor. the lin

10、ton family, richer and more genteel, includes mr linton, his wife, his son edger, and his daughter isabella, and they lived down in a neighboring valley at thrushcross grange. one day mr. earnshaw brings home a gypsy looking little boy who was found in the street of liverpool. he called the boy heat

11、hcliff. the children grow up together. catherine loves heathcliff, while hindley hates him, being jealous of his fathers fondness for the stranger. after the death of mr. earnshaw, hindley degrades heathcliff in every way he can. heathcliff grows brutal and sullen, and catherine turns from him to th

12、e mild edgar linton. heathcliff runs away and returns when catherine has become edgars wife. when heathcliff comes back he is rich and determine to take revenge on hindley and the lintons. between heathcliff and linton catherine became distracted. she gives birth of edgars daughter and dies. heathcl

13、iff turns hindley into a drunkard and gambler and wins all his possessions so that hindleys son hareton becomes a pauper in his house. moreover, he contrives to marry edgar lintons vain and silly sister isabella, and marry lintons daughter, the young catherine, to his own peevish ailing son, linton

14、heathcilff and catherine earnshaw roam on the moor.except for satan in miltons paradise lost, the tempestuous and revengeful heathcliff has no equal in english literature. his intense love for catherine, his relentless revenge on his enemy, and his frantic restlessness after catherines death make hi

15、m a unique figure. in heathcliffs conflict with hindley and the linton, emily bronte portrays the conflict between the privileged and the underdog, between the master and the hired hand. 1.3 evaluation to the workswuthering heights, the great novel by emily bronte, though not inordinately long is an

16、 amalgamation of childhood fantasies, friendship, romance and revenge. but this story is not a simple story of revenge; it has more profound implications. as arnold kettle, the english critic, said, “wuthering heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art of the stresses and tensions and

17、conflicts, personal and spiritual, of nineteenth-century capitalist society.” the characters of wuthering heights embody the extreme love and extreme hate of the humanity. that extreme love and extreme hate mix together make the novel take on the thick dramatic color. love and hate is one of the con

18、flicts in wuthering heights. hate cant make the love disappear, love makes hate stronger. this is the theme of the novel. wuthering heights contrasts the effects of love and hate contrasting the two feelings.the wuthering heights is the only novel of the english woman writer emily bronte, when it wa

19、s published in 1848, cannot make others attention. even if the shock from the details and person is also considered a kind of sickening terror. and some one in criticism circle also consider the book as an appalling work fill of false standpoint, and without any value, the novel is filled with the g

20、loomy and terrible morbid psychology.when it is considered to be a valuable works after half a century, either on the topic construction, or in art conceiving outline, the work expresses the woman writers unusually unique. especially the vehemence emotion of the male host of the works, heathcliff, a

21、nd his strong love and grudge, and the ruthless and heartless revenge plan drawing on the reader deeper and deeper, and he also becomes one of the most complicated person in the history of britons novel. and he becomes to the poorest person, and becomes to the victim of revenge of britons novel.ii t

22、he formation of the grudge2.1 the situation of childhoodwe all know that heathcliff is an orphan living in street of livepool when he was a child, and wuthering heights was filled with light, warmth and happiness. mr.earnshaw, a congenial gentleman farmer, lives happily with his boisterous children

23、catherine and hindley. however, being a kind and generous fellow, he cant help rescuing the gypsy child starving wretch off of the streets of liverpool, and he took the gypsy child heathcliff to his family. from this time heathcliff becomes one of the families. as an orphan, has no father and mother

24、, nobody takes care of him. he must be very tragic, and mr. earnshaw also said “it is dark almost as if it came from the devil”. when we read here, a picture of beggar, a child beggar appeared in my mind. a child lived in the world had no show loving, how pity he was! and here mr. earnshaw brought t

25、he pity boy to his house. i hope the boy will be happy form now, but now i know i am wrong. heathcliff still cannot change his life. mrs. earnshaw did not like heathcliff coming to her house. the first time when mr. earnshaw brought him home. “mrs. earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she di

26、d fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house, when they had their own brains to feed and fend for? what he meant to do with it, and whether he were mad?”and the children, especially hindley hated heathcliff and “plagued and went on with him hatefully and ellen, just

27、a servant, she did the same, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf, when she saw her son wronged. in this situation, heathcliff seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment: he would stand hindleys blows without winking or shedding a tear, and the pinches moved hi

28、m only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident and nobody was to blame.after mr. and mrs. earnshaw both died, hindley became the new master of the wuthering heights, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labor out of door ins

29、tead; compelling him to do as hard as any other lad on the farm. heathcliff and catherine, they were nearlythe same age, and grew up together. but in this time the treatments they had were totally different. the wife of hindley“prattled to catherine, and kissed her, and about with her, and give her

30、quantities of presents but to heathcliff, they didnt allow him to have education, and made him work on the farm, they treated him totally as a servant. as a young boy, heathcliff just at the time of having strongest self-esteem, how can he bear the insult.no doubt, it will make the childs mental dis

31、torted.2.2the frustration of lovein wuthering heights, emily bronte shows us the tense conflict of love and hatred, at same time; she indicates the change and integration of the love and hate. love and hate, the two extreme feelings of the man, make wuthering heights mysterious. its hard for the rea

32、der to understand. but its the soul of wuthering heights.2.2.1 catherine marry lintonheathcliff and catherine grow up together. catherine is his especially good childhood friend, spending many a carefree day playing on the moor with heathcliff. unfortunately when mr.earnshaw dies suddenly, hindley i

33、s able to express his enmity with damning cruelty. heathcliff is condemned to the stable, a position doubly harsh given his former familial state. as the years pass a single reason keeps, the now adult, they love each other deeply, but at last catherine married edgar linton, the son of thrushross gr

34、ang.after the five weeks ofcatherine stayed in thrushoss grang, when she appeared in wuthering heights again, she changed a lot. her manners improved a lot. instead of wild, crazy, dirty, she was a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cl

35、oth habit, which she was obliged to holdup with both hands that she might sail in” and kissed me gentlejust because she was all flour making the christmas cake, and it would not have done to give a hug as usual. and when she saw heathcliff she did not hug him as usual, but said, you are so dirty to

36、heathcliff. five weeks ago they are the same dirty, same crazy, and they are best friend, but five weeks later, just five weeks, so short time later, his best friend said he is dirty, did not like him any longer. catherine was hurt by dogs and heathcliff worried about her in this five weeks, but at

37、the time of catherine coming back, she said he is dirty, it makes heathcliff very angry you neednt have touch me!” he answered following her eye and snatching awing his hand i shall be so dirty asi please, and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirtyfrom here it is very easy to see that the change of

38、 catherine is very hard for heathcliff to accept, it is the beginning of them to walk distant. and few years later, the much worse thing happened: catherine decided to marry edgar linton. yes, the more civilized half of catherine desires fine dresses and a respectable station in society, all things,

39、 which edgar linton can provide. such a collision of love and desire is ripe territory for the seeds of tragedy.it was a raining night when heathcliff knew the news, and just in the night, he left the wuthering heights, the family where he grew up, with limitless sad and pain. when we read here, we

40、can feel heathcliffes sadness clearly.catherine is the only friend of his these years, from the time of heathcliff got to wuthering heights, just only catherine spending many a carefree day playing on the moor with heathcliff. just only catherine does not abandon him. these years they are best fiend

41、s and now they are adults, they loved each other deeply. but at last, the only person he believed and loved decided to marry other person but not him. is there anything can hurt heathcliff deeper than that? the night, it was a heavy raining night; he left the home in heavy rainand strong wind. in th

42、is book, the author did not describe how sad and how painful heathcliff was at that time directly, but from the weather; we can feel the loving, the painful, and the hopeless of heatncliff. an epic tale of wild, romantic passion, set amongst the heather and wind-swept gulleys, wuthering heights is s

43、tirring stuff. presenting a vision of undying love, its genesis in the innocence of youth and resolution in the chill of death, the entire spectrum of emotions is played expertly by bronte.2.2.2 the death of catherinefew years later, when heathcliff appeared again, all the things are changed; cather

44、ine, who he still loved deeply, was mrs. linton this time. it was true, and nobody can change it. but the much worse thing is, at twelve oclock, after two hours she gave a birth to a girl, she left the world forever. at the time of she left the world, heathcliff still hade no chance to company with

45、her, she was still in edgars arms. what about mr. heachcliff this time? when mrs. dean found him next morning, he had remained among the larches all night he worried about catherine, but he had no right to come in to take care of her, at the time of he knew the news of catherines death, he can not a

46、ccept the event. he repeated the same question how did she die?” catherines death made heathecliff feel much more painful.the two events: one is catherine marry edgar linton, the girl he loved deeply suddenly became other persons wife; another is catherines death, it makes the girl he loved leave th

47、e world forever, and at the time of catherine left the world he still can not beside her. for a man, had no way to marry a girl he loved deeply, had no way to protect her, even though at the time of she left the world he still can not to beside her, the pain in his heart we can not image. iii the pr

48、ocess of revenge just because of the pain, the pain from be looked up on in childhood, the pain from loving, hating is appeared in his heart, hating made him to revenge, to get all the things he lost, to do the same thing to make otherssame pain as him, he did all the things follow his plan, but wha

49、t about the result? look at the following things he did to the huthering heights, to the thruchross grangeand, to the next generation.3.1 to the wuthering heightsfew years later, when heathcliff came back, all the things are cannot be changed, and heathcliff, himself is not the person few years ago,

50、 at this time he is already a rich man. but when he came back, he can not forget the wuthering heights, can not forget all the things happened in the wuthering heights, can not forget he wasmaltreated by thehindley, can not forget catherine who he loved deeply married other one.when allthe old thing

51、s appeared in his eyes, revenge increased in his heart, he began to revenge the master of wuthering heights. heathcliff used the way oflure to make thealcoholic to be agambler, and got all thepropertyfrom him. heathcilff became the master of the wuthering heights, he tried to get the wuthering heigh

52、ts, just because he grew up in wuthering heights, but alwaysmaltreatedby the master of the wuthering height,made him humiliated at that time, full of hating in his heart, but he had no power to resist, but this time he will make hindley to bear the pain what he beard few years ago, after he became t

53、he master of wuthering height, he make hindley to be a servant, live in the servant s house, and do the work what he did years ago . he did all the things to revenge hindley, to make all the pain what he beared year ago to hindley. yes, from the time of hindley lost wuthering heights, he drink and w

54、ager all the day. and sometimes was scolded by heathcliff, he has no idea to change, just use drink and wager to paralysis himself, he felt the pain, and can felt the pain deeply. what about heathcliff? did his pain reduce? did he feel happy? no, totally not, he not only did not feel a little bit ha

55、ppinessbut the pain is more and more.3.2 to thrushross grangethehating to thrushross grange is much more than to the wuthering heights, because his only love is became to the woman master of thrushross grange. yes, the master of thrushross grange, edgar makes him lost his only love. so when he saw b

56、ack, when he decided to revenge, he cannot forgot edgar, the master of thrushross grange. he came to thrushcross grange to meet catherine, the wife of the master of thrushross grange this time to make the family into trouble, to make the relationship between edgar and catherine worse and worse, may

57、be thats his aim, but what kind of thing did he get at last? and then he used conspiracy to make edgars sister fall love in with him, andrun away with him. edgar looked up on him, looked him as a servant forever, but he will make edgar know that “you can look upon me, but your wife love me. and also

58、 your sister, and she can not live on without me, i have lower society situation, but your sister love to leave home with me” heathcliff is true, he had done all the things successfully, he made the family ofedgar lost the happiness as usual, made edgars sister loved him and marry him. but as same a

59、s to wuthering heights, he cannot get any happiness. meeting catherine made her family in trouble, not only makeedgar feel the pain but also catherine. few years have been gone, all the things goes well, but when heathcliff reappeared, catherine remembered all the things many years ago, remembered the raining night, all the pain came back. to see the person he loved so painful. what about his feeling? much m