I have read Wuthering Heights for three times and each time when I read it ,I got something new .The novel deals mainly with the story of Heathcliff ,an orphan picked up by Mr .Earnshaw and brought up with his children .Heathcliff is treated well by Earnshaw ,but when the old man dies ,the young master Hindley bullies and insults him .In those days when Heathcliff and Catherine unite to revolt Hindley ,Heathcliff falls passionately in love with Cathy .Cathy loves him but thinks it would degrade her to marry him .Heathcliff overhears what Cathy says to Nelly and leaves Wuthering Heights sadly .Three years later he returns to find Cathy has been married Edgar Linton ,a rich man .He lives again in wuthering Heights and seeks his revenge .

A large number of articles say the novel can be divided into three parts and the second parts is about “Catherine betrayed heathcliff and married Edgar Linton as a result of her vanity ,ignorant and blindness .”Even though ,the result came Cathy marrid Edgar ,from my point of view ,she did not betray Heathcliff .

The environment decided Cathy not a traditional women at that time .A kind of fiery emotions in Cathy’s heart and it can not be covered .When Edgar Linton asked Catherine to marry him ,she gave him an answer at once .Apparently ,Cathy thought about this kind of questions not for the first time .She clearly knew a miss of Wuthering Heights should marry a man with whom it will be well matched in social and economic status .Cathy came Nelly to pour out her restless about the marriage .Nelly ,the only one she could turn to. Nelly asked wha she was unhappy about since the marriage can pleased her brother and escape from a disorderly comfortless home into a weathy ,respectable one .As Cathy put one hand on her breast ,she said the heart where the soul lives convinced her wrong .Cathy fairy know her love for Heathcliff ,as she addressed to Nelly ,”…and that ,not because he is handsome ,Nelly ,but because he is more myself than I am .Whatever our souls are made of ,his and mine are the same ;and Linton’s is as different as a moonbean from lightning ,or frost from fire…” Marriage is not to betray Heathcliff .If Cathy can not express her love for Heathcliff through the way of marrying him ,there must be reasons .

As the old Chinese saying goes ,To a destitude couple ,nothing goes well .Cathy ,a girl of twentytwo seemed already understand this viewpoint .The evidence is what she said to Nelly ,”Nelly ,I see now ,you think me a selfish wretch ;but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and Ｉ ｍａｒｒｉｅｄ ，ｗｅ ｓｈｏｕｌｄ ｂｅ ｂｅｇｇｅｒｓ ？Ｗｈｅｒｅａｓ ，ｉｆ Ｉ ｍａｒｒｙ Ｌｉｎｔｏｎ ，Ｉ ｃａｎ ａｉｄ Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ｔｏ ｒｉｓｅ ，ａｎｄ ｐｌａｃｅ ｈｉｍ ｏｕｔ ｏｆ ｍｙ ｂｒｏｔｈｅｒ＇ｓ ｐｏｗｅｒ ．＂Ｔｈｅｓｅ ｗｏｒｄｓ ｆｒｏｍ ｔｈｅ ｄｅｅｐｅｓｔ ｈｅａｒｔ ｏｆ ｈｅｒ ｈｅａｒｔ ｉｓ ｎｏｔ ｍｏｎｅｙ ｗｏｒｓｈｉｐ ｂｕｔ ｒａｔｉｏｎａｌ ．Ｍａｙｂｅ ｉｔ ｓｅｅｍｓ ｌｉｋｅ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｅｘｃｕｓｅ ｔｏ ａｂｓｏｌｖｅ ｈｅｒｓｅｌｆ ｆｒｏｍ ｒｅｓｔｌｅｓｓ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ｍａｒｒｉａｇｅ ．Ｉ ｄｏ ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ ｉｔ ｉｓ ｂｒｕｔａｌ ｔｏ ｂｒｅａｋ ｕｐ ｔｈｅ ｄｅｅｐｌｙ ｌｏｖｅｒ ａｎｄ Ｉ ｄｏ ｂｅｌｉｅｖｅ ｉｔ ｉｓ ｈａｒｄ ｔｏ ａｃｃｅｐｔ ｔｈｅ ａｌｍｇｉｖｉｎｇ ｆｒｏｍ ａ ｗｏｍａｎ ．Ｂｕｔ ｔｈｅ ｒｅｓｕｌｔｓ ｅｘｃｅｅｄｅｄ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｅｘｐｅｃｔａｔｉｏｎａａｓ ｆｏｒ Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ｄｉｓａｐｐｅａｒｅｄ ．Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ｃｏｕｌｄ ｎｏｔ ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔａｎｄ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｄｅｅｐ ｌｏｖｅ ａｎｄ ａｌｓｏ ｈｉｍｓｅｌｆ ｗａｓ ｎｏｔ ｂｅｉｎｇ ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔｏｏｄ ．

Ｒｅｓｔｌｅｓｓ ｔｈｏｕｇｈ Ｃａｔｈｙ ｆｅｌｌ ，ｔｈｅ ａｎｓｗｅ

ｒ ｉｓ ｇｉｖｅｎ ｔｏ Ｅｄｇａｒ ．Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ｌｅａｖｅｓ ａｎｄ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｈｅａｔｈ ｇｏ ｆｒｏｍ ｂａｄ ｔｏ ｗｏｒｓｅｂｅｃａｕｓｅ ｏｆ ｍｉｓｓｉｎｇ Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ．Ａｌｓｏ ，ｆｒｏｍ Ｅｍｉｌｙ＇ｓ ｅｘｑｕｉｓｉｔｅ ｄｅｐｉｃｔｉｏｎ ａｂｏｕｔ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｓｅｒｉｏｕｓ ａｎｄ ｐａｉｎｆｕｌ ｍｉｓｓ ｏｆ Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ，Ｉ ｆｉｒｍｌｙ ｂｅｌｉｖｅｄ Ｃａｔｈｙ＇ｓ ｆａｉｔｈ ．

Ｉｆ Ｃａｔｈｙ ｉｓ ｇｉｖｅｎ ａｎｏｔｈｅｒ ｃｈａｎｃｅ ，ｓｈｅ ｗｏｕｌｄ ｎｏｔ ｌｅｔ Ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ｇｏ ．Ｂｕｔ ｗｈａｔｅｖｅｒ Ｃａｔｈｙ ｃｈｏｏｓｅ ，ｓｈｅ ｗｏｕｌｄ ｎｅｖｅｒ ｂｅｔｒａｙ ｈｅｒ ｌｏｖｅ

ａｎｄ ｈｅａｔｈｃｌｉｆｆ ．

 

第二篇：呼啸山庄(WUTHERING HEIGHTS)英文读后感

呼啸山庄（WUTHERING HEIGHTS）英文读后感

Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural–and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848

believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an

introduction by Emily’s sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.

Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet–it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family–which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a “Gipsy” child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower

herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries

another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to “get into;” the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this

obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world–dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once–and those who do like it will return to it again and again.