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1、An analysis of Wuthering HeightsKey FactsThemesCharactersPlotsSymbolsCommentsWriting FeaturesKey Facts Author: Emily BrontGenre : critical realism novelPlots : love and revengeSetting : the 18th, North EnglandPublished time: 1847.12.Point of view: First person point of view The Relationships Between

2、 CharactersWuthering Heights: the EarnshawsHindleyCatherineEdgarHeathcliffIsabellaThrushcross Grange :the LintonsHaretonCathyLintonEllanLockwodYorkshire MoorsMajor CharactersTwo Narrators:1. Ellen (Nelly) DeanA servant of two estates.Loyal, conventional and has a mind of her own.She tells the story

3、happened in the past.2. Mr.LockwoodA rich traveller who lives in his renting estate, Thrushcross Grange.He tells what he sees when he lives there.2.Heathcliff He is a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.Also he is a cruel and a savage revenger.His revenge almost destorys two families.Heath荒野荒野Cliff岩石岩石Hea

4、thcliff3. Catherine EarnshawDuality of her personality:A hoyden: passionate, naive rebellious and stubborn.A lady: fickle(浮躁的浮躁的), snnobish（势力（势力的）的）,vainglorious（虚荣心强的）（虚荣心强的）4. HindleySpoony-love Frances deeplySelfish-only love his wife and himselfJealous-jealous to Heathcliff when his father is a

5、live.5. Edgar LindonVirtue: handsome, young, lovely,rich, graceful, well-mannered, and instilled with civilized virtues.Defect: mannerism and cowardlyHe is a contrast to Heathcliff both physically and spiritually. 6. IsabellaA foolish and overindulged girl. Her silly romantic nature leads her to fal

6、l in love with Heathcliff despite his obvious unsuitability.7. HaretonHe is initially targeted by Heathcliff as a object of revenge.An unkempt ill-bred(粗野的粗野的) and uneducated young man, be treated like a servanet.He is basically good and, at last,get his true love of Cathy.8. Cathy LintonKind-hearte

7、d, intense and livelyGood-looking, well-eduated and filial(孝顺的孝顺的)Cathy is the abbreviation of Catherine.9. Linton HeathcliffA sickly and effeminate(柔弱的柔弱的)young manSpoiled and weaklingWhining(发牢骚的发牢骚的)and self-pitying(自怜的自怜的)With his fathers bad temperThemesLoveClassRevenge Spiritual feelings LoveR

8、omantic loves take many forms in Wuthering Heights.Catherine Heathcliff passionateCatherine Linton civilizedCathy Hareton gentle My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time would change it, Im well aware, as winter change the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rock ben

9、eath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. 我对林我对林顿顿的爱像是树林的叶子的爱像是树林的叶子, ,到了冬天，到了冬天， 树叶就树叶就要凋落了要凋落了, ,时光会改变它时光会改变它, ,我对希刺克厉夫的爱则我对希刺克厉夫的爱则像树下面的永恒不变的岩石，虽然看起来他给你像树下面的永恒不变的岩石，虽然看起来他给你的快乐并不多，可是这点愉快却是必需的永久的。的快乐并不多，可是这点愉快却是必需的永久的。 ClassEarnshaws and Lintons are both members of middlle class, an

10、d they own estates.Being a foundling(捡来的孩子捡来的孩子) with no family tie and no land, Heathcliff is the lowest on the totem pole.Catherine marries Linton, for she will be the greatest woman of the neighborhood.Did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars? Whereas, if Ima

11、rry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brothers power.-By CatherineHeathcliffs revenge affects everyone in the novel. When he cannot have the woman he loves, he turns his attention to revenge.He takes advantage of the drunken, gambling Hindley,winning his Wuthering Heights

12、 from him as the collateral of his gambling losses. He mistreats Hareton, Hindleys son, in much the same way he has been mistreated.In vengeance, he marries Isabella, the simple and infatuated sister of Edgar Linton.Finally, he abandons his vengeful plans and waits for death to reunite with his belo

13、ved Catherine.Meanwhile, Heathcliff successfully transformed from the oppressed one to a oppressor.Here lies the novels theme that a full human life in a capitalist society was impossible of attainment. (P313,Para2,last three lines)Spiritual feelings Heathcliff, the real soulmate of Catherine. Edgar

14、 was only part of her superficial love.When Catherine marries Linton, she always feels lost though her life is indeed happy. Heathcliff is hoping for death after his successful revenge. Because he believes he can be reunited with Catherine in the heaven. What he pursuits is not wealth or status,but

15、spiritual satisfaction of being with Catherine. Illustration on textbookSymbols1.Heathcliff-wild, natural power2.The moor- wild threat posed by nature. As the setting for the beginnings of Catherine and Heathcliffs bond, the moorland transfers associations onto the love affair. 3.Feather-Freedom in

16、physical and mental.4.Ghost- human soul without dependence5. Wuthering Heights -(Wuthering is a local word, meaning wild, exposed, storm-blown)is in a very exposed position on the moors, a four mile walk from Thrushcross Grange. SymbolsWriting Features of Wuthering Heights b.Its a combination of rea

17、lism and gothic symbolism. a.Its a frame story story told in mutiple narrators.1.Her novel is unique in its structure and vision.2.Emily expresses the feelings of the heroes under suppression, tension and conflicts and describes the fates of these heroes.3.The language is simple, adorned(不加修饰的不加修饰的)

18、 but full of power.Writing Features of Wuthering HeightsComments1.Wuthering Heights is a story of almost morbid love as well as a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system and social prejudice.2.The scenes in the novel are quite dramatic and the story is most exciting just like a Gothic novel.3.Its a cry of despairing agony wrung(迫使说出迫使说出) from Emily by life itself. A Short ClipThanks28 结束语结束语