Chapter 2 Appreciation of works

Through a love tragedy, it shows people a picture of life in a deformed society, outlining the human nature distorted by this deformed society and all kinds of horrible events caused by it.The plot of the whole story is actually gradually rolled out through four stages: The first stage narrates the childhood life of Heathcliff and Catherine together day and night; the special relationship formed between an abandoned child and a young lady in this special environment, and their resistance to Hindley's tyrannical tyranny. The second stage focuses on Catherine's vanity, ignorance and ignorance, and she betrays Heathcliff and becomes the hostess of Thrushcross Grange.

The third stage uses a lot of pen and ink to describe how Heathcliff turned his hatred into revenge strategies and actions in desperation. Although the last stage only explained Heathcliff's death, it prominently revealed a brand-new change in his thinking when he knew Hareton and Katie fell in love-the recovery of human nature, which made the film have a terrifying color. The tragedy of love reveals a comforting ray of hope. Therefore, Heathcliff's love-hate-revenge-recovery of humanity is not only the essence of the novel, but also a red thread throughout.According to this thread, the author plans the layout of the article, and arranges the scenes to be unpredictable. Sometimes it is in the wilderness covered with clouds and howling ghosts and wolves, and sometimes it is in a stormy and gloomy courtyard. The story is always shrouded in a mysterious and terrifying atmosphere. In the atmosphere.

In the novel, all the author's efforts are concentrated on the portrayal of Heathcliff's image, where she pins all her indignation, sympathy and ideals.This abandoned child deprived of the warmth of the world has cultivated strong love and hatred in real life. Hindley's leather whip made him taste the cruelty of life, and also taught him to understand that humiliating submission cannot change his humiliated fate.He chose to resist.Catherine was once his loyal partner, and the two of them germinated a sincere love in the common resistance.However, Catherine finally betrayed Heathcliff and married Edgar Linton, whom she didn't understand and didn't love at all.The direct cause of this love tragedy is her vanity, ignorance, and stupidity, but in the end she ruined her youth, love, and life, as well as Heathcliff who was always devoted to her, and almost entrapped the next generation.When Emily Bronte portrayed this character, she had sympathy and indignation;

Catherine's betrayal and her miserable fate after marriage are the most significant turning point in the book.It turned Heathcliff's full of love into incomparable hatred; when Catherine died, the hatred erupted like a volcano and became the driving force for crazy revenge.Heathcliff's goal was achieved. He not only let Hindley and Edgar die miserably, monopolized the property of the two manors, but also made their innocent next generation suffer.This kind of crazy revenge and hatred seems to be contrary to common sense, but it vividly expresses his extraordinary rebellious spirit, which is a special resistance determined by a special environment and a special character.Heathcliff's love tragedy is a tragedy of society and a tragedy of the times.

The story of the novel ends with Heathcliff committing suicide for the purpose of revenge.His death is a kind of martyrdom, expressing his unswerving love for Catherine in life and death, a kind of pursuit of love that cannot be in the same bed in life, and seeks the same bed in death.And before he died, he gave up the idea of ​​revenge on the next generation, showing that his nature was originally kind, but the cruel reality distorted his nature and forced him to become tyrannical and ruthless.This recovery of humanity is a kind of spiritual sublimation, which shines the author's humanitarian ideal.

After its publication, it has been regarded as "the most peculiar novel" in the history of English literature, and a "strange book" with "mystery and inscrutability".The reason is that it goes against the sentimental sentiment prevalent in contemporary works, and replaces the deep sadness and melancholy with strong love, violent hatred and the resulting ruthless revenge.It is like a strange lyric poem, full of rich imagination and violent emotions between the lines, and has a shocking artistic power. (Zhu Jiongqiang)