呼啸山庄英文简介及人物评价.ppt

1、,Wuthering Heights,Emily 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 her

2、is sparse, due to her solitary and reclusive nature. She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.,Wuthering Heights,Thrushcross Grange,Plot,Opening (chapters 1 to 3) Heathcliffs childhood (chapters 4 to 17) Heathcliffs maturity (chapters 18 to 31) Ending (chapters 32 to 34),Opening

3、 (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, Nell

4、y Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale.,Heathcliffs 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. H

5、e adopts 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 retur

6、ns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.,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 b

7、ecause 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

8、a means of revenge. 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.,Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Heathcliff thus finds himself

9、 master 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.,Heathcliffs maturity (chapters 18 to 31),After twelve years, Catherines daughter Cathy grows into a beautiful, high-spirited

10、 girl. 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 in

11、to marriage. Several days after their marrige, Edgar dies, and Heathcliff become the master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Soon after that, Linton dies.,Ending (chapters 32 to 34),Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy, but she retreats and then withdraws from the world. But later they

12、 become close. While 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.,Characters,Heathcliff Cathe

13、rine Earnshaw,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 choose

14、s to marry and 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.,deserted loved by Catherine deserted by Catheri

15、ne revenge revive of humanity,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

16、more like 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 c

17、ulture a choice 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.,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 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 beca