(英语专业毕业论文)一个扭曲的灵魂-《呼啸山庄》中的希刺克里夫(英文).doc

1、 本科毕业论文（设计）（2017届本科毕业生）题 目: A Distorted Character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights 一个扭曲的灵魂呼啸山庄中的希刺克里夫 ABSTRACT In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte shows what the true love is. Like Heathcliff and Catharine, although they cant marry, the two souls never separate from each other. She even uses the roman

2、tic skill to give the double characters of Heathcliff. His love for Catharine is crazy and faithful, so does his hate and revenge. In his love world, love and revenge becomes the only thing, nothing else left. Not a crazy lover, but a crazy tyrant. When the tyrant behaves as an uncontrolled one, he

3、becomes the embodiment of hate and revenge.There can be no doubt as to Heathcliffs inhuman brutality and the deliberate pain and destruction he causes to those he despises. He is not alone, however, in his cruelty. The hate to all the world of Heathcliff is all from his frustrated love and his disto

4、rted character. Here, hate is the alienation of love. It seems that hate is strong, but it is alone and insignificant; the delicate love owns the unconquerably power, the two feelings extremely burned in one life, that is the crazy feeling world of Heathcliff.This paper focuses on different aspects

5、of Heathcliff to show his distorted character and the process of change in Heathcliffs destiny. Through the change of Heathcliff, the writer expresses her views that losing love means losing humanity, but she also has confidence that recovering love means recovering humanity. At the end of the novel

6、, Heathcliff finally recovers his humanity, because he finds a permanent home for his soul. Key Words: Heathcliff, distorted character, love, revenge摘 要在呼啸山庄中，艾米丽勃朗特向读者展现了真爱。就像希刺克里夫和凯瑟琳一样，虽然他们没有结婚，但这两个灵魂永远不离不弃。作者甚至用浪漫的技巧给予希刺克里夫双重性格。希刺克里夫对凯瑟琳的爱是疯狂和忠诚的，这跟他的仇恨和复仇如出一辙。在他的爱情观里，只有爱和复仇，别无他物。他不是一个疯狂的情人，却是一个

7、疯狂的暴君，当暴君的行为不可控制之时，它就变成了仇恨和复仇的具体体现。毫无疑问，希刺克里夫毫无人道的野蛮，恣意的痛苦和毁灭全来源于别人的藐视。然而，即便是在凯瑟琳的残忍行为中，他也并不孤单。他对全世界的憎恨来自于他沮丧的爱。在这里，爱和恨是相辅相成的。仇恨的力量似乎很强大，但它又是孤独而微不足道的，精致的爱情拥有不可战胜的力量。这两种力量一起在一个生命中燃烧着，那就是处在一个疯狂的感情世界中的希刺克里夫。文章从希刺克里夫不同的性格特征着手来展示他扭曲的个性和他命运转变的过程。通过希刺克里夫的转变，作者表达了她失去爱情就意味着失去人性的观点，同时，她有信心相信重获爱情就是重获人性。希刺克里夫最后

8、重新找回了人性就是因为他为他的灵魂找到了一个永久的归宿。关键词：希刺克里夫；扭曲的性格；爱；复仇ContentsAbstract(English).iAbstract(Chinese)iiChapter I.Introduction1 A.Introduction to the Author of Wuthering Heights:Emily Bronte1B.Introduction to Wuthering Heights.2C.Structure of the Thesis3II.Literature Review.6 A.Heathcliffs Growing Environment

9、6B.Heathcliffs Passionate Love to Catherine.7C.Heathcliffs Character.8 1.Heathcliffs Obssession.8 2.Heathcliffs Ruthlessness.10 3.Heathcliffs Selfishness.11 4.Heathcliffs Madness.12D.Analysis of the Distorted Character.13 1.Heathcliffs Love.13 2.Heathcliffs Hatred13 3.Humanitys Coming Back.15III.Des

10、tiny.16 A.Heathcliffs Change.16 1.Heathcliffs Happy Life in His Childhood16 2.Fatal Love.17 3.Heathcliffs Plans for Revenge.17 4.Heathcliffs Revenge to All His Enemies.19 B.Reason for and Analysis of the Tragedy.20 1.Spreading of Heathcliffs Further Plans20 2.Heathcliff Giving Up His Revenge Plans.2

11、1IV.Conclusion.23Works Cited25Acknowledgements.27CHAPTER IINTRODUCTIONA. Introduction to the author of Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte.Emily Bront (1818-1848), novelist and poet, is one of the most famous representatives of the 19th century in English literature. Bront sisters, Emily Bront, Charlott

12、e Bront and Anne Bront are the exotic flowers in literary field of 19th century England. Emily is born in Thornton of Yorkshire and grows up in Haworth, a village in north of England. Emily Bront is first a poet. Her character and genius are shaped by the influence of her father. Patrick Bront, the

13、father, is of Irish stock and is known for his picturesque, free flowing speech, poetry and imagination. She is born a quiet girl, unsociable and uncommunicative, yet her inner heart is filled with passion, which can be seen in her poetry and novel. The English poet and critic, Matthew Arnold, says:

14、 “Her (Emily) extraordinary passion, feverish feelings, gloominess and boldness are incomparable after Byron”(Yang 23). And Virginia Woolf writes in her book Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights: “When Charlotte composes, she declares with eloquence, brilliance and passion that I love, I hate and I suffe

15、r. But in Wuthering Heights, Emily looks forward to the world, by the heros mouth, she says not only I love or I hate, but also we, all the human beings and you, the eternal power”(Yang 295) Emily is chiefly remembered as the author of the powerful novel, Wuthering Heights. The novel describes the c

16、haracters and environment of her native countryside, on the moors of north England. She enters her living conditions and her experiences as well as her individuality such as melancholy, passionate and eloquent into the works. Emily Bront is good at seizing primary images and entering into the savage

17、ry field of spirits by her poetic imagination. She shows us the conflicts between the keen heart-storm and the factitious wilderness. Virginia Woolf also remarks: “Wuthering Heights is more different to understand than Jane Eyre, because Emily is a greater novelist than Charlotte”(Yang 295).B. Intro

18、duction to Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronts unique remarkable novel Wuthering Heights establishes her literary position. It is remarked as “the most peculiar novel”(Wang 76), and some of critics think of it as “Sphinx of literary history”(Wang 76), which is full of vigor and fierceness, leading readers

19、 into a world brimming with hatred and love, evil and kindness, weakness and stubbornness. Ralph Fox, the revolutionary critic of England writes: “Wuthering Heights is beyond all doubt one of the most extraordinary books which human genius has ever produced”(Liu 378). He regards it as the three grea

20、test books of that age, “and the writer of the future will acknowledge them as his inspiration when he attempts the task of conquering reality”(Liu 378).According to Jung, the contents of human psychology are essentially experienced, which can be displayed both by personal behaviors and psychologica

21、l activities and by superstition, myth, religion and philosophy (Rong 65), the authors personal experience plays an important part to help create the typical characters. Wuthering Heights opens in 1801, when Mr.Lockwood meets Heathcliff, the owner of the isolated farmhouse that he has rented. The st

22、ory then jumps back in time to 1771, when Heathcliff, an orphaned child, was brought home by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights. The events of the story, which ends in1803, take place in a few square miles of the West Yorkshire moors. Charlotte understood that people in the south of Englan

23、d had been raised to “observe the utmost evenness of manner and guardedness of language”in other words, to behave calmly and politely, no matter how they felt inside. The people in the Brontes part of the world were different. Living in scattered farms and villages, fiercely independent and suspicio

24、us of outsiders, they tended to speak their minds, often harshly, and show, rather than hide, their emotions.In Wuthering Heights, many deaths occur: over the course of thirty years, eleven characters dienone of them beyond middle age. To a modern reader, familiar with antibiotics and other common m

25、edicines, a novel with so many deaths may seem melodramatic. In the world of the Brontes, however, death was a constant presence. All six Bronte children died from disease in childhood or before they reached middle age. In the early 1800s, the average working man in Leeds (an industrial city in York

26、shire) died at the age of nineteen. In the village of Haworth,40 percent of the children died before the age of six. Tuberculosis, a disease that usually attacks the lungs and thrives in damp and crowded conditions, was rampant in Haworth.C. Structure of the ThesisThis article is divided into four p

27、arts. The first part is introduction of Wuthering Heights author: Emily Bronte and the work itself: Wuthering Heights. The introduction of Emily Bronte is about her main works, childhood and her private life experience which shaped her special characteristics. Mean whil, the introduction of her reve

28、als her family background. Through this, we can realize the general life of Bronte sisters and what it is that lead Emily to the road of literaray. Still, it confirms the special prestige of Emily in the literary world of England mainly due to the publication of Wuthering Heights. The introduction o

29、f Wuthering Heights reviews the works background, publication and its influence in literary.The second part is literature review, which researches Heathcliffs distorted character by expressing his growing environment and his passionate love to Catherine. These are regarded as the main cause and fuse

30、 leading to his special character. In this part, we can also find the different factors in his distorted character to be more specific, such as Heathcliffs obssession, ruthlessness, selfishness and madness. At the same time, this part talks about analysis of his distorted character by regarding to H

31、eathcliffs love, hatred and finally, how his humanity is coming back. By analyzing these, we can find out the evolution process of his distorted character and how his double track character is formed. It is his deeply love to Catherine, that leads to his hatred beyond rededmption. Eventually, love c

32、onqures everything. Love from the bottom of his heart wakes up his hided huamnity.The third part is about destiny. It talks about Heathcliffs change in his character from comparing his happy life in childhood with his latter life experience. Revealing his fatal love to Catherine and his plans for re

33、venge. Heathcliffs revenge plans due to his violent and reckless hatred are prepared for all his enemies, his hatred even approaches to next generation. It also revealss the reason for and analysis of Heathcliffs tragedy by analyzing his spreading of further plans and giving up his revenge plans.The

34、 fourth part is the conclusion of this article. Its about general opinions of myself about Heathcliffs distorted character and its specific aspects. Still, there some of my own views about the formation of Heathcliffs special character, the analysis of the distorting process of his character and des

35、tiny. Revealing the nature of Heathcliff by regarding to his motivations behind the revenge.CHAPTER IILITERATURE REVIEWA. Heathcliffs growing environmentHeathcliff is an example of the effects of cruelty, deprivation and alienation that are the products of civilization. His brutality is a direct res

36、ult of his having been denied the fundamental need for nurturing that children thrive on. Abandoned as a child, uncared for and unloved, he was left to fend for himself in what must have seemed a hostile and frightening world. Constant rejection and humiliation stimulated his desire for revenge. Hav

37、ing been rejected he in turn rejects the system that spawned him and he sets out to destroy it. He attempts to turn the cruelty he experienced back on those whom he feels have wronged him and thereby relieve his own suffering. He substitutes hate for love, violence for peace, and disorder for harmon

38、y. He brutally separates those whom he considers his enemies from their comforts and security, their honor, and finally from those for whom they care.It is significant that Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, he owned almost the love of Mr.Hearnshaws, because

39、 he is the substitute of his died sonHeathcliff. But all of the family members soon become involved in turmoil and fighting, the family relationship becomes spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason why Mr.Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. Young Hindley a

40、nd Catharine dont like him, because he usurps the affections of Mr.Earnshaw.With the advantage of Mr.Earnshaws favoritisms he exchanges horses with Young Hindley. Hindley had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend. He hates Heathcliff, because he is the only threat of inher

41、iting Wuthering Heights, and he also seizes the love from old Earnshaw. Here, class fight appears. After the death of Mr.Earnshow, he is deprived of love, sociability and education, his life all changed, although his pride nevertheless remains intact.Mr.Earnshaw is just like Heathcliffs shelter, but

42、 the death of him is the turning point of Heathcliffs life. From that time, the young Hindly controls the whole family, he treats Heathcliff badly, which behavior even could make a man to a fiend of a saint. He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to become a farm

43、 hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. All this made him distorted humanity. He never forgot the injury inflicted on him during his childhood.B.Heathcliffs passionate love to CatherineIn the novel, Heathcliffs eternal faithfulness to Catharine is easily to see. H

44、is love for her continues to be undaunted. The love between them is just like brother and sister at the beginning, which is based on their shared perception that they are identical. Heathcliff feels he belongs with Catherine both in body and in spirit; life for him is like the spring because of Cath

45、erine.From the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff has suffered pain and rejection. Because he loves Catherine, so he doesnt care about the prejudice of others. But when Catherine went back from the Grange everything seemed changed. Undountly, Catherines thoughts has changed a little, at last betraye

46、d his love, in favors of the social status and civilized existence of the Grange. Here we can see that the status, wealth and position are over love. Everyone has the chance to choose their own life style, sometimes love is smaller than reality.Although Catherine at last becomes Litons wife, it doesnt influence Heathcliffs faithfulness love to her. He just disappears for three years and returns in the guise of a gentleman. His return is a shock for Catherine, but he still loves her.