《呼啸山庄》通过一个爱情悲剧，向人们展示了一幅畸形社会的生活画面，勾勒了被这个畸形社会扭曲了的人性及其造成的种种可怖的事件。整个故事的情节实际上是通过四个阶段逐步铺开的： 第一阶段叙述了希斯克利夫与凯瑟琳朝夕相处的童年生活；一个弃儿和一个小姐在这种特殊环境中所形成的特殊感情，以及他们对辛德雷专横暴虐的反抗。 第二阶段着重描写凯瑟琳因为虚荣、无知和愚昧，背弃了希斯克利夫，成了画眉田庄的女主人。 第三阶段以大量笔墨描绘希斯克利夫如何在绝望中把满腔仇恨化为报仇雪耻的计谋和行动。 最后阶段尽管只交代了希斯克利夫的死亡，却突出地揭示了当他了解哈里顿和凯蒂相爱后，思想上经历的一种崭新的变化——人性的复苏，从而使这出具有恐怖色彩的爱情悲剧透露出一束令人快慰的希望之光。 因此，希斯克利夫的爱一恨一复仇一人性的复苏，既是小说的精髓，又是贯穿始终的一条红线。作者依此脉络，谋篇布局，把场景安排得变幻莫测，有时在阴云密布、鬼哭狼嚎的旷野，有时又是风狂雨骤、阴森惨暗的庭院，故事始终笼罩在一种神秘和恐怖的气氛之中。 在小说中，作者的全部心血凝聚在希斯克利夫形象的刻画上，她在这里寄托了自己的全部愤慨、同情和理想。这个被剥夺了人间温暖的弃儿在实际生活中培养了强烈的爱与憎，辛德雷的皮鞭使他尝到了人生的残酷，也教会他懂得忍气吞声的屈服无法改变自己受辱的命运。他选择了反抗。凯瑟琳曾经是他忠实的伙伴，他俩在共同的反抗中萌发了真挚的爱情。然而，凯瑟琳最后却背叛了希斯克利夫，嫁给了她不了解、也根本不爱的埃德加·林顿。造成这个爱情悲剧的直接原因是她的虚荣、无知和愚蠢，结果却葬送了自己的青春、爱情和生命，也毁了对她始终一往情深的希斯克利夫，还差一点坑害了下一代。艾米莉·勃朗特刻画这个人物时，有同情，也有愤慨；有惋惜，也有鞭笞；既哀其不幸，又怒其不争，心情是极其复杂的。 凯瑟琳的背叛及其婚后悲苦的命运，是全书最重大的转折点。它使希斯克利夫满腔的爱化为无比的恨；凯瑟琳一死，这腔仇恨火山般迸发出来，成了疯狂的复仇动力。希斯克利夫的目的达到了，他不仅

让辛德雷和埃德加凄苦死去，独霸了两家庄园的产业，还让他们平白无辜的下一代也饱尝了苦果。这种疯狂的报仇泄恨，貌似悖于常理，但却淋漓尽致地表达了他非同一般的叛逆精神，这是一种特殊环境、特殊性格所决定的特殊反抗。希斯克利夫的爱情悲剧是社会的悲剧，也是时代的悲剧。 《呼啸山庄》的故事是以希斯克利夫达到复仇目的而自杀告终的。他的死是一种殉情，表达了他对凯瑟琳生死不渝的爱，一种生不能同衾、死也求同穴的爱的追求。而他临死前放弃了在下一代身上报复的念头，表明他的天性本来是善良的，只是由于残酷的现实扭曲了他的天性，迫使他变得暴虐无情。这种人性的复苏是一种精神上的升华，闪耀着作者人道主义的理想。 《呼啸山庄》出版后一直被人认为是英国文学史上一部“最奇特的小说”，是一部“奥秘莫测”的“怪书”。原因在于它一反同时代作品普遍存在的伤感主义情调，而以强烈的爱、狂暴的恨及由之而起的无情的报复，取代了低沉的伤感和忧郁。它宛如一首奇特的抒情诗，字里行间充满着丰富的想象和狂飙般猛烈的情感，具有震撼人心的艺术力量。

 

第二篇：呼啸山庄 读后感 书评 Catherine's Choice

Catherine’s choice

The narrative of Wuthering Heights is a story of love and hatred. Many of the comments concentrate mainly on the human nature shown in the book, both on the pleasant and desperate side. Nevertheless after finishing the book, the most impressive plot to me is the love triangle between Senior Catherine, Edgar Linton and Heathcliff.

The author commenced her narration at a point where everything was trembling in the darkest and mistiest nighttime. Heathcliff was on his long way of revenge, while Hareton Enshaw, Senior Catherine’s nephew, was brought up to grow into a sort of rude, uneducated person. The Linton couple was dead, leaving their offspring miring in a family filled with hatred, widowed. Then, Mr. Lockwood, the narrator, led us to the past years by asking Nelly to recount the life story of our three main characters. Heathcliff was adopted by Catherine’s father. They live in Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff and Catherine spent their early years together. The time of their childhood is the beginning and foundation of their lifelong lasting love. Catherine had had a kind of ‘wondrous constancy to old attachments’. She tended to rely on old things and old people. This partly contributes to the explanation why she was obsessed with Heathcliff all her life. After the death of Catherine’s father, the son, Hindley Enshaw inherited the fortune and took charge of the house and the family. He treated Heathcliff as a servant and refused to indulge the young lovers’ spending time together. Accidentally, Catherine became acquainted with the Linton’s settling in Thrushcross Grange. She fell for the elegant life and lost herself in vanity. Heathcliff, serving at the house in a lowest position, was deeply hurt by Catherine’s change. As time goes, the son of the Linton couple, Edgar Linton grew fondness to Catherine and finally proposed to her. Catherine was hesitating. She was too young and too shallow to understand her true love for Heathcliff. The remarks she made to Nelly about Edgar and Heathcliff explains the situation fully. She convinced herself that she loved Edgar, and the excuse for this ‘love’ were that he was handsome, young, cheerful, rich, and

loved her. By marry upon him she could be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and she would be proud of having such a husband. This stupid unthinking behaviour out of her strong will of chasing after the vain glory finally caused the miserable ending of both families. Catherine’s feelings for Heathcliff, however, were actually true love, the most passionate love I have ever seen. She claimed to share the same value and ways of love. As pleasant as Linton would make her, she could still sense the feeling of imposition. It was like a guilty soul got call up to heaven. Happy as it is, but never at peace. She cried for the misfortune happened to Heathcliff, frown for the pain that he was suffering. Even though she admitted that he was low, she chose to fell for him regardless of anything. ‘He's more myself than I am,’ she said, ‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’

The love between Catherine and Heathcliff was like fire, burning inside their hearts. Anything tempting to stop this emotion would be burnt down to ash. Heathcliff disappeared when Catherine married Edgar, and when he was back, he was a whole other man, a man strong enough to destroy all the barriers ahead of his love. He did not care even on bit about the others except Catherine. They love each other only for the reason that they are just two people portrayed out of the same flesh and bones with the same soul. This love is pure and valuable, but overwhelming for the world, even for themselves. It’s what the author was aspiring after deep inside her heart.

Edgar Linton appeared to be a weak, faint little boy when the story first begins, but as he grown up, we find him a responsible gentleman, a caring husband. Though Heathcliff looked down upon Edgar’s love, it not fair when we ignore what he has down for Catherine. He loved his wife as a good husband. This love may not be the sparks came out when two souls met, but it was fine and steady, and most important of all, realistic. Catherine chose Edgar out of conceit, but it was, to be frank, a wise choice for most people. A man handsome, young, cheerful, rich is almost irresistible for most women, let alone Edgar also loved her deeply. In Pride and Prejudice, the reason why Lizzie chose Darcy was almost the same. What’s more, Edgar was in fact as decent as Darcy was. I can not see any objections for this marriage, and this is actually a usual marital relationship should be. Nonetheless, when compared with the

former one, this love seems to be too plain and dull. The author do not reject this kind of reality love, on the contrary, she understand it thoroughly.

Finally, at Catherine’s funeral, Heathcliff picked out Edgar’s hair and put his together with her. However when he was away, Catherine’s daughter again picked up the hair of Edgar and put it back. The hair of the three people tangled and could not be separated. I suppose that this description is for the symbolic meaning that the two kinds of love were of equal important in the lady’s life. They may not appear in the same way or of the same base, but they are all love. In the end, after their death, ‘the three headstones on the slope next the moor: on middle one grey, and half buried in the heath; Edgar Linton’s only harmonized by the turf and moss creeping up its foot; Heathcliff’s still bare.’ The sleepers underground were finally in peace, but the rivalry of two kinds of loves continued, and the choice once Catherine made will keeping on bothering different people.