Abstract Wuthering Heights is the only novel of British writer Emily Bronte. It is regarded as one of the finest novels in the English literature. Some scholars have employed Marxism doctrines, feminism, religion, humanity and so on to carry out a deep research on Wuthering Heights. This paper examines and explores the protagonist’s contradiction, revenge and the real heart of recovery hidden in human nature. In addition, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the tragedy on Heathcliff in a series of events from different aspects.61499

Key words: Wuthering Heights; Heathcliff; tragedy; love; hatred

摘要《呼啸山庄》是英国小说家艾米莉·勃朗特唯一一部小说,也被评为英国文学史上经典小说之一。诸多学者曾从主义，女性主义，宗教，人性等等方面做了深层次的研究。本文力图展现了主人公爱与恨的矛盾、复仇、诀别、以及隐藏在内心深处的人性复苏。然后通过这一系列的悲剧的分析，找出了希斯克厉夫悲剧命运的缘由。

毕业论文关键词：《呼啸山庄》；希斯克厉夫；悲剧；爱；恨

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. The Formation of Heathcliff’s tragedy 2

3.1The Transformation from Love into Hatred 2

3.2 Hatred Distorting Human Nature 4

3.3 The Recovery of Humanity 5

4.Heathcliff’s Extremism Due to His Tragedy 7

5. Reasons for Extreme Love and Hatred in Heathcliff’s tragedy 8

5.1An Unhappy Childhood 8

5.2 The Oppression from Class and Society 9

5.3 Catherine’s Betrayal 10

6.Conclusion 10

Works Cited 12

1. Introduction 

Wuthering Heights is a novel written by British novelist Emily Bronte, and it was published in 1848. It mainly tells the story of love between Catherine and Heathcliff, which is full of crazy love and brutal hatred. It is based on love, showing the collision between human nature and social oppression. The human nature is so complex that it always can result to different emotions distinctly-love and hatred. Nevertheless, when it was published, some critics even described it as full of morbid and paganism. It did not get popular before half a century ago. From then on, Wuthering Heights has highly been respected by the public; it is not only because of its unique characters but also the theme. It was also recognized as a modern Steve Jobs in literature. Therefore, somebody has said, “in the Victorian era, Wuthering Heights was the only novel that uncovered by the time of the dust and always showed its splendor”(Yang Jingyuan, 1993：6)

2. Literature Review

Emily Bronte has just left behind a few works．However, her only novel Wuthering Heights has launched wave of studies and attracted more and more attention in the past decade from home and abroad．studies about the novel are often based on the following aspects, many researchers have used the Marx doctrine, feminism, religion, humanity and so on to carry out a deep research on Wuthering Heights. Some persons regard it as a beautiful love story, while some persons define it as a story of bloody revenge, and also some persons make the analysis with the resistance and struggle against oppressor.源:自/吹冰-·论,文'网·www.chuibin.com/

Reviewing Wuthering Heights’s controversial issues is mainly because of the creation of the image of the main character Heathcliff. The main artistic achievement of Wuthering Heights is also in that it creates a flesh-and-blood character Heathcliff, so it can not deny that Emily Bronte makes a great contribution to shape this character. In recent years, many scholars have written many articles to analyze and discuss about the hero Heathcliff. Sun Lina made a conclusion in reconsideration on Heathcliff’s image in Wuthering Heights, she pointed out that Heathcliff’s transformation from a kind boy to crazy avenger after distorting human nature and the recovery of humanity depend on many factors.(Sun Lina, 2008:3) It indicated that obsession of hierarchy and prejudice against persons in the 19th century in British did a serious harm to human nature. In addition, it also showed that a person had a prominent competence to keep own dignity. Fu Qiang and Sheng Liwen also wrote in the paper Analysis of Heathcliff’s humanity-after reading Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, “in the small world created by Emily, the relationship between persons are more simple than ones in the realistic life. Only two extremes are left as if complex and ample humanity had been concentrated, not intense love but fierce hatred.”(Fu Qiang & Sheng Liwen, 1999:3) Just because of this, the hero Heathcliff’s character also reflected two extremes. These analyses are based on different attitudes to personal images, Heathcliff’s lot, personality, thinking and tragic ending. He is like a man who has thousand faces. As Shakespeare has put, “there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand eyes.” That is to say, when readers read from different views, they will find different connotations hidden behind the story. Heathcliff is a complexity of the contradiction, so it is difficult to define completely him.