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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

艾米莉·勃朗特

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Wuthering Heights 艾米莉·勃朗特 1241Words 2018-03-21
In the rolling north of England, there is a "Wuthering Heights" that is almost isolated from the world. The owner Earnshaw brought back an abandoned child from the street one day, adopted him as an adopted son, named Heathcliff, and let him live with his son Hindley and daughter Catherine .Heathcliff gets along with Catherine day and night, and love sprouts, but Hindley hates him very much.After Old Earnshaw died, Hindley became the master, not only forbidding Heathcliff to contact Catherine, but also mistreating and insulting him in every possible way.As a result of this persecution, he intensified his hatred for Hindley and his love for Catherine.

One day, Heathcliff and Catherine go out secretly and meet Edgar Linton, the young owner of the nearby Thrushcross Grange.The seemingly suave rich kid falls in love with Catherine's beauty and proposes to her.The naive Catherine agrees to marry Linton in order to use his family's wealth to help Heathcliff get rid of her brother's persecution.When Heathcliff heard the news of Catherine's marriage, he was in great pain and ran away angrily. Years later, a handsome and dignified guest visited the Lintons.It turned out that the missing Heathcliff made a fortune and returned to his hometown.The only purpose of his return to his hometown this time is to take revenge on those who had persecuted him and taken away his sweetheart.

Hindley is a dissolute dandy who spends his days and nights drinking, haunts casinos, and squanders the property left by old Earnshaw.When he saw that Heathcliff came back rich, he asked him to stay in the villa, mortgage the rest of the property to him, and become his servant. Heathcliff becomes a frequent visitor to Thrushcross Grange, and Linton's sister Isabella regards him as a legendary hero and elopes with him.He imprisoned her in Wuthering Heights and tortured her to vent his grievances. After Catherine married Linton, she saw her husband's hypocrisy and regretted it very much.Heathcliff's clothes returned in glory, and she was thrown into the abyss of guilt and guilt.In desperation, she fell ill and died shortly thereafter, leaving behind a baby girl, Katie, who was only seven months pregnant.

Taking advantage of Catherine's death, Isabella escaped from the villa and lived in the outskirts of London. Soon after, she gave birth to a boy named Linton Heathcliff.Hindley died in drunkenness less than half a year after Catherine's death, and his baby Hareton fell into the palm of Heathcliff.Heathcliff wants to take further revenge on the child, "training" him into a barbaric person, and letting him experience what happened in his childhood. Twelve years later, Isabella died of illness and Heathcliff took back her son.He is exactly like his uncle, elegant in manner, but selfish, and Heathcliff hates him very much.

Time flies, Katie has grown slim. On her 16th birthday, she accidentally meets her uncle Heathcliff whom she doesn't know.When Heathcliff knew that the girl in front of him was the daughter of his sweetheart Catherine and his enemy Linton, love and hatred churned in his mind again, intertwined into a new pattern of revenge: let her marry his son in order to justify her death. Monopolize the Linton family's property.When Linton was dying, Heathcliff forced Katie to marry his son hastily.A few days later, Linton died, and Heathcliff became the owner of Thrushcross Grange again.Little Heathcliff also passed away quietly shortly after their marriage, leaving Katie immersed in mourning.

At this time, Hareton was 23 years old, and he looked exactly like Heathcliff in his youth. Although he was deprived of the right to education and lacked the warmth of the world, he was honest, loyal and personable.Katie develops a love for him.Heathcliff had hoped that they would hate each other, but unexpectedly they fell in love.He is determined to break up the lovers.However, when he observed them carefully again, the scene when Catherine and him fell in love in the past emerged before his eyes.At this moment, the hatred in his heart subsided, love gained the upper hand, and he couldn't bear to take revenge again.He is going to find Catherine.On a snowy night, with an empty heart and resentment full of bitterness in the world, he laughed wildly after revenge, and left the world.

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