《呼嘯山莊》凱瑟琳愛情與婚姻的困境.doc

1、 畢 業(yè) 論 文catherines dilemma between love and marriage in wuthering heights呼嘯山莊凱瑟琳愛情與婚姻的困境 學(xué) 院 專 業(yè) 級(jí) 班學(xué)生姓名 學(xué) 號(hào) 指導(dǎo)教師 職 稱 完成日期 教務(wù)處 制abstract: emily bronte is a famous british poet and novelist in mid-19th century. her novel wuthering heights tells a poignant love story. this paper is to analyze catherin

2、es plight between love and marriage, and irreconcilable contradictions which have led to the tragedy. the aim of the paper is to make people aware of which is extremely wrong that people measure personal values on social status. it is not only cruel, but will have devastating consequences to destroy

3、 the natural and sincere feeling.key words: love; marriage; tragedycontentsintroduction 11. discussion of catherines love 2 1.1 influences of natural society 2 1.2 love between catherine and heathcliff 3 1.3 the true love of catherine 42. discussion of catherines marriage5 2.1 influence of materiali

4、stic society 5 2.2 catherines unlucky marriage 63. the irreconcilable contradictions between love and marriage 7 3.1 catherines childhood repressive stage 7 3.2 youthful catherinenegative stage 8 3.3 mature catherinedisillusioned and destructive stage 9conclusion 10bibliography 13acknowledgement 14

5、introduction emily bronte only wrote a long novel which was named wuthering heights. no matter from the content or the format, this novel is absolutely a unique one. this is a novel with a strong passion and little wild even some freak opus. wuthering heights was themed by the love of heathcliff and

6、 catherine. it shows the love story between two families of two generations. this novel has two main narrators and five minor narrators, plus the time, the perspectives, the views, the intertextures between love and hate, hate and enmity. these conditions make the whole opus filled with mysterious a

7、tmosphere. wuthering heights is the exploration and extension of the meaning of the romance. the strong passion and natural love of heathcliff and catherine in contrast with the marriage according with social norms, emily bronte put forward her own point to support personal choice. catherine and hea

8、thcliff often said that they got to know each other as they understood themselves. they are the indivisible lovers. the death of one of them would inevitably lead to the death of another. however, catherine and heathcliffs love met a lot of obstacles in their periods. heathcliff not just had an unkn

9、own background, but was poor and did not accept education. these have fundamentally denied the possibility which he wanted to marry with a gentlewoman as his wife. it is obviously that emily bronte was deeply influenced by the romantic poetry. emily fashioned heathcliff into a person who was similar

10、 to the byronic hero. in fact, the description of this kind of character also denied the possibility of the integrating happiness of catherine and heathcliff. heathcliff is the person who had stronger desire of love and lived in a far higher place than any one else in daily life. he regarded revenge

11、 as the only way for him to live in an appropriate way of life after he was rejected by catherine. although catherine was very fond of the strong and provocative love, she did not master enough consciousness to protect her and could not really realize the shortcomings of heathcliff. in catherines vi

12、sion, the choice that catherine chose edgar linton as her husband would lead to her spirit coming into being a separation. however, she had no choice but to do it. she could not find any reason to refuse edgar linton who can provide her with social privileges and luxury life. what happened in the no

13、vel seems unreasonable, but sensible either. in some theorists opinions, either the technique to solve the romantic theme that scott required, or the surface reflection that the eighteenth century put forward the traditional requirements for real of life. all of these are profoundly and drastically

14、broken up by emily bronte who is the author of wuthering heights.catherine is the heroine in this paper. her love is the soul and body separated from the love, full of irreconcilable contradictions and conflicts. catherines love for heathcliff is the spirit of love, narcissistic love, and love for l

15、inton is the love of the flesh, materialized love, compensatory lovecatherine accepts and loves them who are different. her love for greed is over their mental load, so it enhances the psychological conflict. it set fire to the hatred of heathcliff when she married linton. his hatred accumulated ove

16、r the years in his heart. the hatred grew rapidly and exploded, leading to the subsequent a series of tragedies. the contradiction between the absurdities of eros, she endured the spirit of self-destruction, which not only brewed on the tragedy of love and marriage, but also ultimately led to cather

17、ines early physical death. as far as i am concerned, the story of revenge and love helps reveal the weaknesses in human nature: hatred, jealousness and consistency. when confronting with maltreatment and oppression, human beings will struggle so fiercely and bravely for freedom and dignity. though l

18、ove and hatred of catherine were settled down with death of the three main characters in wuthering heights, but the sense and sensibility of human nature never rest, contradicting humans thinking and decision making, and revealing the weaknesses of every single detriment of human nature. 1. discussi

19、on of catherines love1.1 influences of natural societythe whole world of wuthering heights was made up of the desolate land, the storm and the strange stones. wuthering heights was the symbol of serious, violent and vibrant of original power. wuthering is an interior adjective which contains a signi

20、ficant meaning. it described the place that was disturbed by the storm under the pressure of the weather. indeed, they must have that pure air to rise with their force and spirit at any time. turning our vision into another side, we can saw that there were a few stunted trees that became to lean exc

21、essively. at the same place, a row of thin thorns branched into a same direction, as if they were begging the warm from the sun. now you can guess how powerful the north wind is there. thanks to the architects of wuthering heights, their foresight made it possible for them to build the houses in a s

22、trong condition. narrow windows were deeply embedded in the wall and the foundation of this house was formed with large pieces of protruding stones. wuthering heights was the center of the storm with circulating air which could inspire the people in wuthering heights throughout the year. the strong

23、wind represents a kind of primitive power. in the eyes of lockwood, wuthering heights is the ideal paradise of the pessimistic person. it is hard for us to look for a second place which is entirely far from the secular persecute as the wuthering heights in the british territory. wuthering heights wa

24、s located in remote, the natural and social outlook and nature of the original shape influenced catherine in her childhood. she was an untamed, stubborn and bold girl, and full of rebellious spirit. her rebellion, unrestraint, contempt for the hypocrisy of civilization and morality were often agains

25、t her father, and didnt want to be a good boy by her fathers will. when the old sean brought heathcliff to wuthering heights, it drew the whole family on this dirty little boy, certainly they disgusted him. however, catherine and heathcliff became good friends gradually, because the two children wer

26、e mutual attracted together by a strange and primitive emotions. they run in the profusion of heather, the wilderness of thorns everywhere together, it seemed that they were immersed in the old days which fell behind others. the wilderness became a secluded paradise to escape the reality and be far

27、from the madding crowd for them. all secular ethics, religious values did not apply to them completely. playing freely in the wilderness and enjoying nature were catherine and heathcliffs most favorite things in their childhood. they hated all hypocrisy and cruelty and had the courage to tread the s

28、acred books under feet and throw them into the kennel. especially when the old sean was dead, they found indispensable to each other in the resistance to hedley and joseph, catherine gave the understanding between people and companion friendship to heathcliff, but catherines nature got a response fr

29、om heathcliff.we can sum up that catherine was born in storm township of wuthering heights, with free days in wild in her childhood. she inherited the characters of moor besom: she had a scrumptious beauty containing a natural harbor, a doughty will and a freedom of thought. however, people unanimou

30、sly esteemed that women should be the angel at home of the victorian era in britain. with the continual sigh of the old sean, catherine perceives that her father did not like her very much. nevertheless, as a matter of fact, it did not affect her to recognize her real personality. on the contrary, i

31、t evoked forward a single step catherines inner female consciousness. the nature influenced catherine to develop the catherine natural friendliness, make her have a primitive wild elements in her body, be simple on her thought, be free and not with any flashy. it was just about the natural law of hu

32、man growth that catherine was naive and pure in her childhood. 1.2 loves between catherine and heathcliffthe affection between catherine and heathcliff has begun to set up from their childhood. heathcliff was originally a liverpool street homeless orphan, and was adopted by mr. sean. although in per

33、iod of taking him home, he was unwelcome by a pair of children of mr. sean who were called catherine and hedley. but catherine gradually began to like heathcliff and got closer to him. when they were just the children, they didnt know class differences, wealth and fame in their mind. yearning for na

34、ture put them tightly in union; both of them were wild children and also liked roaming in the wilderness freely. their love was developed from childhood and based on the nature, so the love between them was sacred and pure.the appetency between catherine and heathcliff derived from their piggys chil

35、dhood. catherine thought of heathcliff as her everything and her most favorite person. heathcliff was absolutely obedient to catherine. he would do everything no matter what catherine required him to do. how did this kind of innocent, childish and lifelong love derive from? catherine spoke loudly an

36、d clearly of her being equal to heathcliff. she firmly believed she was an outcome of the nature. catherine and heathcliff conjointly owned a same character that both of them melting into the wild nature. catherines attitude towards the wild and the attached feeling of her childhood implied that she

37、 would never be a part of the civilized world. her heaven was in the midst of the desolate champaign and her soul and spirit would never get rid of heathcliff. after the death of mr. sean, heathcliff lost a relative who supported and loved him. from then on, he was often maltreated by the new owner

38、of wuthering heights, hedley. hedley deprived his rights to educate and let he become the servant here. even so, heathcliff did not feel lonely and depressed, because catherine always stood by him, understood him and love him. as long as he got together with his lover, he considered all of the unhap

39、py experience and ill- treatments as nothing. he could share his everything with catherine. as regard to heathcliff, catherine was the only hope in his life. his love for catherine could be described with two words that were warm and crazy. in his eyes, there was nothing important but his love for h

40、er, and he also did not allow anyone to carry off catherine from his side.because of what catherine and heathcliff had some one fit of things in their nature, they relied on each other, comforted each other, thus became intimates, and germinated a sincere love in a common resistance, when they were

41、subject to exclusion in isolation, catherine told nelly:i love him so much (heathcliff), not because he looks handsome, but he is more like him than my own. no matter what our souls are made of, his and mine are exactly the same. in this world, my greatest grief is heathcliffs grief . i live to him

42、and my biggest purpose is also him. even if everything else all die, as long as he left, i can continue to live; and if the others all left, only he is dead, in that way the whole world has become a very strange place, i will not like a part of it. my love for heathcliff is precisely compared to the

43、 constant rock under our feet i am heathcliff! he is not as a pleasure, but as myself and present on my own heart.11 the love between them is deep, intense and fanatical. maintaining a high degree of fit on mentality, their emotional bond is tied more and more tightly, till the last it can not be se

44、parated. it can be said that the love between catherine and heathcliff pursuing the original self-love, is a product of primitive nature.in wuthering heights, the love of heathcliff and catherine is the best prototype of the original love. plato made an annotation of this kind of prototypical love,

45、as follows: love is rooted in the ancient human beings. it led us to return to the original state. the effort to combine two people into one and to heal the cracks in the people is all the manifestation of love. everyone is only the half of the other person and always seeks for their own the other h

46、alf.two thousand years later, the analytical psychologist jung carl gustav gave new life to this old idea that the pursuit of a complete desire and process is the prototypical model of the love. it is the precious spiritual products with long traditional history in the development of human beings. a

47、s catherine said, i am heathcliff. he lives in my heart forever. he is not regarded as a kind of fun, but as my own to exist.11 1.3 the true love of catherine catherine told nelly:i love him so much (heathcliff), not because he looks handsome, but he is more like him than my own, he is not as a plea

48、sure, but as myself and present on my own heart. he is absolutely necessary for me.10 from these words, we would find catherine and heathcliff was an organic whole, heathcliff was the most real for catherine, and catherine loved him actually because she loved the most authentic of herself. we could

49、see heathcliffs shadow from catherine. it was obvious that they were similar in character. catherine had a strong feeling like heathcliff. before meeting linton, she was the same as heathcliff who was unrestrained in both emotion and behavior. however, when she met linton, secular ethics and norms s

50、uppressed her nature and made her grow as catherine, not as heathcliff.catherine had told nelly:she loved linton, because linton was handsome, young, active, and he loved her too. and linton would be very rich in the future, if she married him, she would be the most amazing woman in that area.11 thu

51、s we could see that catherine preferring to linton was just for his etiquette, wealth and fame that is, catherine gave up her true love, but chose a person who was more identified by the society than herself, such choice even in nellys opinion, and it seemed also ridiculous. second, when catherine m

52、et heathcliff, she often expressed her dissatisfactions, and so it has harmed heathcliffs dignity as a man, it also buried the curse for catherine and heathcliffs tragedy.staying in the villa for a few weeks could be the turning point for heathcliff and catherines emotion. during this time, catherin

53、e began to realize that she should marry a very rich people with their position; she also revealed that she liked linton a little. eventually catherine could not resist the material temptation and married linton. in this connection, we could know that catherine loving heathcliff was not because she

54、really loved him, but just because she loved herself actually.2. discussion of catherine s marriage2.1 influence of materialistic society in the 19th century of victorian era in england, although britain has already been a major industrial country at that time, social progress and development did no

55、t change the status of women dependency and subordination, they were either hard labors and servants who worked ten hours a day, but the wages were meager; or did tutors who not only had low wages but also no dignity. in addition, women did not have a better career to make a living, so their marriag

56、e was still a better means of livelihood that was to put them to a man. accepting their subordinate status, women wanted marriage to change their fate was very common; this was the womens living landscape in that era. 12 at the same time, the nineteenth century of british was still in the patriarchy

57、 society. the female completely lost their identity under the utterance hegemony of males point, thought, behavior, ethics and value. at that time, the england was the advocates of family angle. mary wollstonecraft has said in the women right for a debate, women are kept in captivity at home and also in the dark.12 the fate of the middle class women was particularly lamentable. they were thought as the males property and social relationship at home. they can not find their main position in their society and they were at the edge of the pat