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1、呼啸山庄英文内容简介wuthering heights wuthering heights is emily bronts only novel. it was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym ellis bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister charlotte. the name of the novel comes from the yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centres (a
2、s an adjective, wuthering is a yorkshire word referring to turbulent weather). the narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between heathcliff and catherine earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. now conside
3、red a classic of english literature, wuthering heights innovative structure, which has been likened to a series of matryoshka dolls,citation needed met with mixed reviews by critics when it first appeared, with many horrified by the stark depictions of mental and physical cruelty.12 though charlotte
4、 bronts jane eyre was originally considered the best of the bront sisters works, many subsequent critics of wuthering heights argued that its originality and achievement made it superior.3 wuthering heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, televisio
5、n dramatisations, a musical by bernard j. taylor and songs (notably the hit wuthering heights by kate bush), ballet and opera. contents1 plot summary 2 characters 3 timeline 4 local background 5 literary allusions 5.1 gothic and supernatural elements 6 allusions/references in literature 7 film, tv o
6、r theatrical adaptations 7.1 new versions 8 musical allusions and adaptations 8.1 opera 8.2 other 9 references 10 external links plot summary the narrative is non-linear, involving several flashbacks, and involves two narrators - mr. lockwood and ellen nelly dean. the novel opens in 1801, with lockw
7、ood arriving at thrushcross grange, a grand house on the yorkshire moors he is renting from the surly heathcliff, who lives at nearby wuthering heights. lockwood spends the night at wuthering heights and has a terrifying dream: the ghost of catherine earnshaw, pleading to be admitted to the house fr
8、om outside. intrigued, lockwood asks the housekeeper nelly dean to tell the story of heathcliff and wuthering heights while he is staying at the grange recovering from a cold. nelly takes over the narration and begins her story thirty years earlier, when heathcliff, a foundling living on the streets
9、 of liverpool, is brought to wuthering heights by the then-owner, mr. earnshaw, and raised as his own. ellen comments casually that heathcliff might have been descended from indian or chinese origins4. he is often described as dark or gypsy. earnshaws daughter catherine becomes heathcliffs inseparab
10、le friend. her brother hindley, however, resents heathcliff, seeing him as an interloper and rival. mr. earnshaw dies three years later, and hindley (who has married a woman named frances) takes over the estate. he brutalises heathcliff, forcing him to work as a hired hand. catherine becomes friends
11、 with a neighbour family, the lintons of thrushcross grange, who mellow her initially wild personality. she is especially attached to the refined and mild young edgar linton, whom heathcliff instantly dislikes. a year later, hindleys wife dies, apparently of consumption, shortly after giving birth t
12、o a son, hareton; hindley takes to drink. some two years after that, catherine agrees to marry edgar. nelly knows that this will crush heathcliff, and heathcliff overhears catherines explanation that it would be degrading to marry him. heathcliff storms out and leaves wuthering heights, not hearing
13、catherines continuing declarations that heathcliff is as much a part of her as the rocks are to the earth beneath. catherine marries edgar, and is initially very happy. some time later, heathcliff returns, intent on destroying those who prevent him from being with catherine. he has, mysteriously, be
14、come very wealthy. through loans he has made to the drunken and dissipated hindley that hindley cannot repay, he takes ownership of wuthering heights upon hindleys death. intent on ruining edgar, heathcliff elopes with edgars sister isabella, which places him in a position to inherit thrushcross gra
15、nge upon edgars death. catherine becomes very ill after heathcliffs return and dies a few hours after giving birth to a daughter also named catherine, or cathy. heathcliff becomes only more bitter and vengeful. isabella flees her abusive marriage a month later, and subsequently gives birth to a boy,
16、 linton. at around the same time, hindley dies. heathcliff takes ownership of wuthering heights, and vows to raise hindleys son hareton with as much neglect as he had suffered at hindleys hands years earlier. twelve years later, the dying isabella asks edgar to raise her and heathcliffs son, linton.
17、 however, heathcliff finds out about this and takes the sickly, spoiled child to wuthering heights. heathcliff has nothing but contempt for his son, but delights in the idea of him ruling the property of his enemies. to that end, a few years later, heathcliff attempts to persuade young cathy to marr
18、y linton. cathy refuses, so heathcliff kidnaps her and forces the two to marry. soon after, edgar linton dies, followed shortly by linton heathcliff. this leaves cathy a widow and a virtual prisoner at wuthering heights, as heathcliff has gained complete control of both wuthering heights and thrushc
19、ross grange. it is at this point in the narrative that lockwood arrives, taking possession of thrushcross grange, and hearing nelly deans story. shocked, lockwood leaves for london. during his absence from the area, however, events reach a climax that nelly describes when he returns a year later. ca
20、thy gradually softens toward her rough, uneducated cousin hareton, just as her mother was tender towards heathcliff. when heathcliff is confronted by cathy and haretons love, notably haretons determination to protect the defiant cathy from heathcliffs attack, he seems to suffer a mental break from r
21、eality and sees catherines ghost. he abandons his life-long vendetta and dies broken and tormented, but glad to be rejoining catherine. cathy and hareton marry. heathcliff is buried next to catherine (the elder), and the story concludes with lockwood visiting the grave, unsure of what to feel. chara
22、cters heathcliff is the central male character of the novel. a foundling raised by the earnshaw family, he forms a bond with his foster sister catherine earnshaw and they share a passionate love, but it is founded on their sameness, of being different halves of the same soul, rather than just a roma
23、nce or some physical attraction. meanwhile he nurses a bitter rivalry with his foster brother hindley, who resents the partiality his father shows heathcliff and is cruel to him after his fathers death. the only time he truly showed love or emotion was when it had to do with cathy. he runs away from
24、 the heights when he is approximately sixteen (his age is unknown but he looks slightly older than cathy) and returns three years later, having mysteriously made his fortune, education and refinement. he is a brooding, vindictive man, and his anger and bitterness at catherines later marriage to thei
25、r neighbor edgar linton sees him engage in a ruthless vendetta to destroy not only his enemies but their heirs, a crusade that only intensifies upon catherines death. catherine earnshaw is heathcliffs foster sister. she has dark brown eyes which are characteristic of her family. a free-spirited, wil
26、d, passionate, and somewhat spoiled young woman, she returns heathcliffs love entirely, but because heathcliff had been made so low that if she married them they would become beggars, instead she chooses another, edgar linton, through which marriage she hopes to help heathcliff and bring him back to
27、 the standing he would have had. heathcliff leaves the heights after overhearing that it would degrade her to marry him, and because of this she throws herself into a violent fit and is ill for a while. when edgar asks her to marry him she is about fifteen; they are married three years after edgars
28、fathers death when she is about eighteen, presumably when edgar comes into his inheritance. when heathcliff returns after those same three years she renews their friendship, which makes edgar unhappy. always on the edge of madness, her physical and mental health are destroyed by the feud between the
29、m, and she descends into prophetic madness before dying in an angelic state shortly after childbirth at about nineteen. edgar linton is a childhood friend of catherine earnshaws who later marries her. his fair appearance, blonde hair and blue eyes, contrasts with heathcliffs dark appearance. a mild
30、and gentle man, if slightly cowardly and distant, he loves catherine deeply but is unable to reconcile his love for her with her feelings for her childhood friend heathcliff. this leads to a bitter antagonism with heathcliff, and it is partly this which leads to catherines breakdown. he is well-mann
31、ered and gentlemanly but always remains something of a spoiled child. he is too afraid to fight heathcliff and shows fear at the prospect, earning both cathys scorn and solidifying heathcliffs contempt. linton is incapable of competing with heathcliffs guile and ruthless determination across the dec
32、ades, and his health fails him while still a relatively young man. isabella linton is the younger sister of edgar who becomes infatuated with heathcliff. she fundamentally mistakes his true nature and elopes with him despite his apparent dislike of her. her love for him turns to hatred almost immedi
33、ately, as she is ill treated both physically and emotionally and held captive against her will. when heathcliff returns from the grange after cathys death she taunts him and he responds by trying to attack her, but hindley interferes and she escapes the heights. she leaves for london after visiting
34、nelly at the grange and gives birth to their son linton heathcliff about seven months later, whom she attempts to raise away from heathcliffs corrupting influence. hindley earnshaw is catherines brother and heathcliffs other rival. having loathed heathcliff since childhood, hindley delights in turni
35、ng him into a rough servant upon inheriting wuthering heights, making him work the fields. however, his wifes death from consumption destroys him; he becomes a self-destructive alcoholic and gambler and it is this that allows heathcliff, upon returning to wuthering heights, to turn the tables and to
36、 buy the mortgage to wuthering heights which hindley created because of his gambling debts, and to become its owner. northern yorkshire. in the foreground heaths. ellen (nelly) dean is, at various points, the housekeeper of both thrushcross grange and wuthering heights, and is the primary narrator o
37、f the novel, told through m. lockwoods journal entries. she is hindleys, heathcliffs and cathys foster-sister and servant, and is the same age as hindley, seven years older than cathy. heathcliff genuinely likes her and is always glad to see her. she recognizes early on that heathcliff is catherines
38、 true love and tries to dissuade her from the disastrous marriage to edgar. having been a disapproving witness and unwilling participant to many of the events between heathcliff and both the earnshaw and linton families for much of her life, she narrates the story to lockwood during his illness at t
39、he grange. it is presumed that she never married as she keeps the name dean throughout her life. it could be considered that she is the true hero of the story, and without her many of the events in the story would never have taken place; however, she is not the primary protagonist. linton heathcliff
40、 is the son of isabella and heathcliff. he bears no physical resemblance to heathcliff whatsoever and takes after his mother completely, with big soft blue eyes, fair golden hair, and slightly effeminate in appearance. however he has a certain petulance, cruelty and selfishness, and exploits his ill
41、 health to get attention from others. he is a sickly child who grows up ignorant of his father until his mothers death when he is thirteen years old. he is forced to live at wuthering heights and grows into a bullied, trembling shadow of his father. heathcliff arranges for him to marry his cousin ca
42、therine linton so that he may inherit both the estates of wuthering heights and thrushcross grange. he dies shortly after entering into the forced marriage. catherine linton is the daughter of catherine earnshaw and edgar linton. she inherits both her mothers free-spiritedness and dark eyes and her
43、fathers gentle nature, facial features and fair hair. heathcliff takes advantage of her fundamental innocence and manipulates her into marrying his own son, linton. she has a strong affection for linton despite her fathers and nellys attempts to keep her out of the reach of heathcliffs machinations,
44、 and never wavers in her friendship to him. unaware of lintons failing health, she is manipulated into traveling to the heights, where heathcliff forces her to remain and marry his son before she returns home to her father, who is dying as well. once she has become a captive of wuthering heights hea
45、thcliff resorts to the same torture he applies to everyone against whom he bears a grudge; he is also violent towards her and cannot stand to have her in the same room with him. as a result, she becomes harpyish and unfriendly. when nelly is allowed to move to the heights she helps catherine return
46、back to her true nature and kindness. she later falls in love with her cousin, hareton earnshaw. hareton earnshaw is the son of hindley earnshaw, who is adopted by heathcliff upon hindleys death. he is described as a handsome rustic with the dark earnshaw eyes, and bears a likeness to his aunt and f
47、ather. heathcliff once saved his life; he caught him when hindley accidentally drops him off the banister of the staircase; however he regretted the act. heathcliff spitefully turns hareton into an illiterate servant and has him work the fields, much as hindley once did to him. despite this, hareton
48、 remains strangely loyal to him, and considers him his father. quick tempered and easily embarrassed, he falls in love with catherine linton early on, and despite her contempt for him is thus inspired to improve himself. he is the only person who mourns heathcliff upon his death. joseph is a servant
49、 of the earnshaws and later heathcliff. a bullying, lazy and snide man, he hates heathcliff but is bound to serve wuthering heights and the sense of duty he feels to hareton, who he calls the true master. intensely religious, he is sanctimonious, self-righteous and largely held in contempt by those
50、around him. he speaks in the traditional west yorkshire dialect. this dialect was still used in the haworth area up until the late 1970s, but there are now only portions of it still in common use.5 lockwood is the narrator of the novel. a newly-arrived tenant at thrushcross grange at the beginning o
51、f the novel, he is intrigued by the curious goings-on at wuthering heights, and persuades nelly dean to tell him the story of what happened during a bout of sickness. lockwood is apparently a wealthy, relatively young man who comes to regret not approaching the younger catherine linton himself. desp
52、ite having a reserved manner and somewhat lofty ideals of himself, he is also a sensitive and romantic soul who is deeply affected by the saga of heathcliff and catherine. it is inferred that he lives in london and returns there after his stay at the grange. frances earnshaw is the wife that hindley
53、 married while away at college. the fact that he did not tell his father suggests that frances is not of high social standing. from her introduction she proves to be a kind woman to nelly and cathy but follows hindleys example and dislikes heathcliff. while hareton is an infant she dies from consump
54、tion, or tuberculosis, a fate shared by most of the bront sisters. she had shown symptoms of her illness ever since hindley brought her to wuthering heights, but at that time nelly did not know what to make of her violent bloody coughs and fear of dying. mr. kenneth, the local doctor and drinking pa
55、rtner of hindley. kenneth often sees to the ill or dead characters: cathy in her madnesses, frances during childbirth and tb, heathcliff and his early illness, edgars final hours, and hindleys death. nelly tells heathcliff that he should send for kenneth to tend to his ill son, but does not tell him
56、 that heathcliffs death is suicide by starvation. he also reports to nelly that he saw isabella leaving with heathcliff. timeline 1757 hindley born (summer); nelly born 1762 edgar linton born 1764 heathcliff born 1765 catherine earnshaw born (summer); isabella linton born (late 1765) 1771 heathcliff
57、 is brought to wuthering heights by mr earnshaw (late summer) 1773 mrs earnshaw dies (spring) 1774 hindley is sent off to college 1777 hindley marries frances; mr earnshaw dies (october); hindley comes back (october); heathcliff and catherine visit thrushcross grange, catherine remains behind (novem
58、ber), then returns to wuthering heights (christmas eve). 1778 hareton is born (june); frances dies 1780 heathcliff runs away from wuthering heights; mr and mrs linton both die 1783 catherine marries edgar (march); heathcliff comes back (september) 1784 heathcliff marries isabella (february); catheri
59、ne dies and cathy is born (20 march); hindley dies; linton is born (september) 1797 isabella dies; cathy visits wuthering heights and meets hareton; linton is brought to thrushcross grange and is then taken to wuthering heights 1800 cathy meets heathcliff and sees linton again (20 march) 1801 cathy and linton are married (august); edgar dies (august); linton dies (september); mr lockwood goes to thrushcross grange and visits wuthering heights, beginning his narrative 1802 mr lockwood goes back to london (j
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