《呼啸山庄》读后感(the Evaluation of Heathcliff).doc

1、The Evaluation of HeathcliffLove to CatharineTheFirstPart the author of the novel-Emily BronteEmily Bronte was perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bront sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne.She was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, which was in the north of England. Her father became the rector of Ha

2、wort since 1820. After their mother died in 1821, the children spent most of their time reading and composition. To escape their unhappy childhood, Anne, Emily, Charlotte and their brother Branwell created imaginary worlds - perhaps that owed a lot to Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels (1726). Emily

3、and Anne created their own Gondal saga, and Bramwell and Charlotte recorded their stories about the kingdom of Angria in minute notebooks. Between the years 1824 and 1825 Emily attended the school at Cowan Bridge with Charlotte, and then was educated at home. Her fathers bookshelf offered a variety

4、of books: the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott and many others as well. The children also read enthusiastically many articles on current affairs and intellectual disputes in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Frasers Magazine, and Edinburgh Review. Emily Bront was at Roe Head in 1

5、835, but she suffered from homesickness and returned to the moorland scenery of home after a few months. In 1837 she became a governess at Law Hill, near Halifax, where she spent six months. To facilitate their plan to keep school for girls, Emily and Charlotte Bront went ito Brussels in 1842 to lea

6、rn foreign languages and school management. Emily returned on the same year to Haworth, where she stayed for the rest of her short life. Unlike Charlotte, Emily had no close friends. She wrote a few letters and was interested in mysticism. Her first novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story-within-a-

7、story, did not gain immediate success as Charlottes Jane Eyre, but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most famous novels written in the English language. In contrast to Charlotte and Anne, whose novels take the form of autobiographies written by authoritative and reliable narrators, Emily int

8、roduced an unreliable narrator, Lockwood. He constantly misinterprets the reactions and interactions of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. More reliable is Nelly Dean, his housekeeper, who has lived for two generations with the novels two principal families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Emily B

9、ront died of tuberculosis in the late 1848. She died very young.The second part the main plot of the novelWuthering Heights (1847) - the story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw family, who had been w

10、itness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights. In a series of flashbacks and time shifts, Bront draws a powerful picture of the enigmatic Heathcliff, who is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw. Heathcliff is treated as Earnshaws own children, C

11、atherine and Hindley. After his death Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley, who loves Catherine, but she marries Edgar Linton. Heathcliff s destructive force is unleashed, and his first victim is Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine. Isabella Linton, Edgars sister, whom he had m

12、arried, flees to the south. Their son Linton and Catherine are married, but always sickly Linton dies. Hareton, Hindleys son, and the young widow became close. Increasingly isolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with C

13、atherineThe third part The love process between Heathclif and Catherine. ():the first loveHeathclif and Catherine fall in love with eath other at an very eary age. Heathclif was brought home by Mr. Cearnthaw, but his son Hindley ,didnt like Heathclifat all.After Mr.Cearnthaws death, Heathclif was ba

14、dly treated and he ever worked as servant.However, Catherine like him from the bottom of her heart.She tried her best to help Heathclif eascape from her brothers punish.They stayed most of their time together.those days were the happiest.They ride horse together,they went to the grasslang together a

15、nd they faught against Catherines brother together gradually they grow up and gradually they fall in love.Their love is true and valuaable. Althought Heathclifhad low social position ,althought his brother looked down upon him,Catherine didnt care about that at all.what she cared must was their love

16、 between them. In this period Heathclif gave all his love to Catherine.He would rather gave up the whole world as long as he couldstay together with Catherine.His love was deep and sincere.He would like to do verything to make Catherinehapps. He thought they could stay together all their life.He wor

17、ked forword to the beautiful future.(): United in spint, seprated in bodyOne night, Heathclif was mistreated by Hindly again. Then he escaped together with Catherine. They come into the house of Lintins by chance. Because fearness, Catherine was fainted.So she was took into Lintins house.Hang noway

18、to go, Heathclif went back to Wuthring HouseHowever,he was forced to sleep in the stable.Catherine was taken good care of in Lintins.Sine she was so beautiful and charming. Lintin cant help falling in love with her.A few days later,Catherine came back home when she found Heathclifs situation,she was

19、 sad and despird. Lintin loved Catherine very much , so she decided to ask her to marry him. In order to motivate Heathclif to fight against his own fate,Catherine agreed with Lintins propose. In fact, Catherine didnt love Lintin at all. She did so,just because she loved Heathclif. She intended to h

20、elp Heathclif get rid of his brothers mistreat. She thought that as long as she left him, he could realize his low position and his lack of money, then he would work hard and tried his best to pureue his own life and then he would finally get rid of her brothers control. However, Heathclifdidnt unde

21、rsand the reason why Catherine chose Lintin. He thought that what Catherine pursued were money and situation. He thought Cathering didnt loved him any longer. His heart was broken, and hid mind went to mad. At last, he broken down and rode away on a rainny night. Catherine was very sad but she Had n

22、o other way to go escape to marry Lintin. () love changed into revenge.Heathclif left had no news ever since. Cathrine married Lintin. On average, the lived a happy and peaceful life.Lintin loved Catherine so much that he tried all his best to make her happy ， her advice whatever the matter was. In

23、spite of all this, Catherine still loved Heathclif at the the bottom of her heart. Five years later, Heathclif come back, as she wished he had become a gentalman. He was weathy and good-bahaviored. However, Heathclif had changed so much, what he wanted to do was to revenge. In order to revenge, he b

24、ought the wauthring Hight from Hndley who addicted to acholo after his wife death. He told Catherine he would no forgive her. So he induced Lintins sister to elipe with him which made Lintin mad and Catherine ill. Catherine was so sorrowful that give a birth to a girl-baby she died.After Catherines

25、death, Heathclif was bothered by hallucination. He went to near to mad. We can see clearly that Heathcliff didnt intend to kill Catherine,instead, he still loved her very much. Just because the deep love love he gave to her, he was angry and mad to her beatray . He couldnt control his implus to reve

26、nge. Even after Catherines death, he still tried to revenge Lintin. He forced Catherines daughter to marrg his son who did at an early age,and so got the family prossession of Lintins. In fact, his mind was out of control just because of the deep love. Nobody can stop him and save him. What he could

27、 do was to go towards to dath.The Fourth Part The evaluation of Heathclifs love, From the above descripition, we can get the conclusim that Heathclifs love to Catherine is true and deep, Heathclif had bad and irritable temperament, however, he was kind by natune.As long as he fall in love, he could

28、overcome whatever difficulty to get it and maintain it. At the beginning,he and Catherine fall in love, althought he was mistreated by his brother, he didnt care about that as long as he could stay together with Catherine 。 At that moment, he was sad but he was also happy. He had no desire to get ri

29、d of her brothers control and to creat his own life, Just because love,he gave up all the world. In our daily life,we often see that a man who is fall in love has the lowest intelligence.This saying fits Heathcliff well.However,Healthcliffs love was selfish.He didnt realize that he couldnt give Cath

30、erine a comfortable and peaceful love,What he gave her was fearness and poverty ,figthness and low social status.He didnt realize all that at all.As for Catherine,Her love was different.She understood that if you really love a person,you should tyr your best to make him happy and joyful.you should k

31、now what he needs most and how to help to make his dream come true.So in order to inspire Heathcliff,she sacrifice herself and married Linton .She didnt love Linton at all.so on the one hand ,she might be sad all throught her life.Because as is known ,staying together with a person one doesnt love i

32、s a unbearable experience.On the other hand ,she would be misunderstood by Heathcliff.In order to love Heathcliff,she didnt care about that at all.After Heathcliff came back,their ralationship changed greatly.Althought they still loved each other deeplyThey had different ro;e to playThey couldnt be

33、together any longer.Heathcliff paid aii his attention to revenge.According to Sigmand Frued ,the behavouir of human come from sexual desire.The psychology control human beingsmind and action.Maybe this is the main reason why Heathcliff changed his deep love to intense hostility.He loved catherineso

34、much ,however ,he couldnt get her ,his beloved Catherine belongd to another man and he couldnt bear it.So his behavior changed and his mind crazy.All his love gave out in the form of revenge.Catherine died,although he didnt kill her,we can say that Catherine was indirectly killed by Heathcliff.She w

35、as disappointed at Heathcliff and heart-broken because of what Heathcliff had done.After Catherinesdeath,Heathcliff was bothered by Catherines ghost.There are two aspects to explain here.First,Catherine s love to Heathcliff.So her ghost always appeared in Heathcliffs mind.she wanted to keep Heathcli

36、ff from making mistakes again.Second,Heathcliffs love to Catherine .catherine died,and Heathcliff still couldnt accept the fact.He hoped to see catherine again and intended to meeet her in his dream .Catherine hang around in his mind and he couldnt get rid of it.He waited for cathrines reappeareace

37、anciously.We can feel the deep love between them.As for Linton,we can see that he was the most unfortunated person in the story.He fell in love with Catherine,but Catherine didnt love him at all.Catherine just made use of him to inspire Heathcliff.Unconciously,he became the barrier between Catherine

38、 and Heathcliff.heathcliff toook revenge on him,married his sisterand obtained his family processionand at last,changed Lintons daughtor into his own-sister-in-low.We really should show our pity to Lintons sorrowful fate.The Five Part What we learn from the love storyFrom the evaluation of Heathclif

39、fslove Catherine,we should know the deep meaning of true love。We sould ask ourselves what is love?love is a kind of special emotion between a man and a woman .ove can make one give up the whole world so as to stay together with the woman he loves.The power of love is unmeasurable.I still remember what Catherine said about love in the novel.My love toward Linton is like tree and leaves,as time went on,it will fall down.However, my love toward Heathcliff is like stone,hard and unmoveable.That is love,and that is the main reason she married Linton.