Page 1 About the Author
Emily Jane Bronte (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was a 19th-century English writer and poet, one of the famous Three Bronte sisters, and the author of wuthering heights. The work was the only novel of Emily Brontë's life and established her place in the history of English literature as well as in the history of world literature. In addition, she wrote 193 poems and is considered a talented female writer in Britain.
Emily Brontë was born in Thornton, Near Bradford, Yorkshire, to the son of Patrick Brontë (1777–1861) and Maria Branwell. Emily is the fifth of the Brontë couple's six children (eldest daughter Maria, second daughter Elizabeth, third daughter Charlotte, only son Branwell, below is Emily and younger daughter Ann), and is the sister of Charlotte Brontë and the sister of Anne Brontë.
His father, Patrick, was originally an Irish country priest. Because Patrick Brontë had been a long-time associate priest in Haworth since 1819, the Brontë family moved to Haworth in April 1820, and it was in this environment that the literary feelings of the three Brontë sisters began to sprout.
Like the other sisters, Emily is strong and capable. For a long time after the death of their mother, the family's income was very small, and the three sisters had to go out often to earn a living, to support the family by teaching or working as tutors. In 1846, the Three Sisters raised funds to publish a collection of poems under a pseudonym, only to sell two copies. Her representative works include "Wuthering Heights", "The Old Ascetic", "Souvenirs", "Prisoner", "Evening Wind" and so on...
In September 1848, brunwell, the only brother of the three sisters, died of an illness caused by long-term alcoholism and drug abuse. In addition to her spiritual relief, Emily's body also weakened sharply due to pity and sadness, and she died in December of the same year. This female writer who later became famous in the world literary world silently left the human world that made her feel indifferent. Wuthering Heights is one of the representative works of British literature in the 19th century and has been adapted into a film work many times.
Page 2 Celebrity Reviews
1) Arnold Kettle of the United Kingdom says:
"Wuthering Heights is expressed in the form of artistic imagination,
The spiritual oppression of man in nineteenth-century capitalist society,
Tension and conflict.
It's a consolation without idealism, without falsehood,
Nor is there any hint of the power to manipulate their destiny,
The struggles and actions of human beings are beyond their own reach.
A powerful call to nature, wilderness and storms, stars and seasons,
It is an important part of the true movement of revelation to life itself.
The men and women in Wuthering Heights are not prisoners of nature,
They live in this world and try to change it.
Sometimes it goes well, but it's always painful,
Almost constantly encountering difficulties and constantly making mistakes. ”
2. William Somer Eset Maugham once wrote:
"I don't know of any other novel in which the pain of love, the infatuation,
Cruelty, persistence, once described so surprisingly.
Wuthering Heights reminds me of El Grico's
One of those great paintings,
On that painting is a view of a dim barren land under a dark cloud,
The thunder rumbled and stretched out the haggard figure,
Tranced by an emotion that does not belong to the world, they held their breath.
The lead-colored sky skimmed a bolt of lightning, adding a final stroke to the scene,
Adds to the mysterious horror. ”
Page 3 Background of the work
Wuthering Heights is Emily's only novel, published in December 1847. The Brontë sisters grew up in a poor clergyman's family, and their mother died of lung cancer when the children were very young, which plunged the family into misfortune. Due to the hardships of life, the Brontë sisters had to spend a childhood at a charity school. Because of the harsh living conditions at school, Charlotte and Emily's two sisters died of lung disease. After that, Charlotte and Emily returned home to teach themselves with their younger brother Branwell and sister Anne.
At that time, England was a typical patriarchal society, which divided people into three, six, and nine, class contradictions were very prominent, and the concept of hierarchy was impregnable. The working people are exploited and oppressed not only by the decadent agrarian aristocracy, but also by the emerging bourgeois magnates.
Women are as oppressed as proletarians and are deprived of almost all rights as human beings. "Regardless of class in which women are born, their legal status is equivalent to that of male criminals, lunatics and minors". The fate of middle-class women is particularly tragic, as the absence of wives and daughters from work is seen as a sign of property and status, they are locked up in their homes and dependent on men for the rest of their lives — fathers, husbands, brothers or sons — as subservient dolls.
For them, marriage is their best destination, and their success or failure in life is here. However, "in marriage, women are often a bargaining chip used to consolidate the position of the family and enhance the wealth of the family." Whether the family can agree to a family affair mainly depends on the property and status of the suitor, and the door-to-door pair is the primary condition. Family-opposed affairs often fail to succeed.
Their family lived in a desolate and remote mountainous area, and the family had always lived in isolation, so they only played in endless swamps and wilderness to the west. They often walk in the wilderness and feel the atmosphere of the wilderness, especially Emily, who is taciturn on the surface, but enthusiastic on the inside, and she writes all the feelings of the wilderness into Wuthering Heights, which constitutes the unique atmosphere of "Wuthering Heights".
Page 4 Introduction to the main contents
"Wuthering Heights" tells the story of the old owner of the villa, Ou Xiao Shouyang, who picked up a gypsy outcast, Heathcliff, but Heathcliff was humiliated and in love at the villa, so he went out to get rich and returned to take revenge on his girlfriend.
In the north of England, there is a nearly isolated "Wuthering Heights". O'Shaw, the master, adopted an outcast and named him Heathcliff, allowing him to live with his children, Hindley and Catherine. Heathcliff spends time and night with Catherine and develops a love affair, but Hindley hates him.
After the death of O'Shaw the Elder, Hindley not only forbade Heathcliff to have contact with Catherine, but also abused and insulted him in every way, which intensified Heathcliff's resentment towards Hindley and deepened his love for Catherine.
One day, Heathcliff and Catherine go out in secret and meet Edgar Linton, the young owner of the neighboring Thrush Farm. This gentle and elegant rich boy admired Catherine's beauty and proposed to her, and the naïve Catherine agreed to marry Linton. Heathcliff learned the news of Catherine's marriage, and was distraught and ran away in anger.
Years later, the returning Heathcliff wants revenge on Hindley and Linton. Hindley was a debauched boy who drank, gambled, squandered his family property, and eventually became poor. Even the rest of the family property was mortgaged to Heathcliff and reduced to his slave.
Heathcliff often visited the Thrush Farm, and Linton's sister Isabella fell in love with him and eventually eloped with him. But Heathcliff imprisoned her in Wuthering Heights and tortured her to vent his strong resentment.
After Catherine married Linton, although Kay and Lin had great differences in thought, due to Linton's accommodation, the two lived happily. Heathcliff's triumphant return awakens her once-wild pursuit of love. In her excitement, she fell ill and soon died, leaving behind a premature baby girl, Katie.
Isabella escaped to the outskirts of London and soon gave birth to a boy named Lynton Heathcliff. Hindley died of alcoholism less than half a year after Catherine's death, and his son Harrington fell into the palm of Heathcliff, who further retaliated against the child. 12 years later, Isabella fell ill and died, and Heathcliff took back his son, but he was very disgusted by his weakness and squeamishness.
Heathcliff took advantage of Linton's critical illness to take Katie and forced her to marry her son. A few days later, Linton died, and Heathcliff became the owner of the thrush farm again. Heathcliff Jr. also died quietly shortly after their marriage.
By this time, Harrington was 23 years old, and despite being deprived of the right to education and lacking the warmth of the world, he was loyal and personable, and Katie fell in love with him. This greatly annoyed Heathcliff, who was determined to break up the lovers. However, when he looked at them more closely, the scene of Catherine and his love in the past came to mind.
At this moment, the hatred in his heart had subsided, the love had been resurrected, and he could not bear to take revenge. He was going to look for Catherine. On a snowy night, he called out Catherine's name and passed away.
The theme of the work is a love tragedy that presents a picture of life in a deformed society, and the story ends with Heathcliff committing suicide. The content of the whole text and the art form are very unique, showing an unusual aesthetic style.
Page 5 Quotes
1, I said that his heaven is only half alive,
But he said my heaven was too noisy, like a drunkard.
I said I would fall asleep as soon as I got to his heaven.
He said that my heaven had suffocated him.
2) If you are gone, no matter how good the world is,
It's just a desert in my eyes.
And I'm like a lone ghost.
3, good things buried in a wild grass, when the weeds are growing,
It overshadows their growth that is not valued.
4) Punishing the wicked is God's business, and we should learn to forgive.
5. Get up! Don't allow yourself to degenerate into a lowly reptile.
6. The passage of time brings him a submission to fate,
And a contemplation that is sweeter than the usual joy.
7, proud people plant sadness and regret for themselves.
(To be continued)
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