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Book Review of Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is written by one of the finest writers of the nineteenth century—Emily Bronte and is regarded as one of the most popular in English literature.However, it was not well received by the public when first published.Victorian readers regarded the book as shocking and inappropriate in its description of the paionate love and cruel revenge.As far as I’m concerned, it is undoubtedly an excellent and representative book of Emily Bronte, who was exceedingly talented and creative.The vivid description of the inner world and complicated feelings of those main characters leaves a very deep impreion on me.It is about the doomed love affair between the fiercely paionate Heathcliff and pitiful Catherine.In the novel, the author put all her efforts on the depiction of the characteristic of Heathcliff, from which we can see all her indignation, sympathy and ideals.The story begins with Heathcliff’s coming to the Earnshaw family and ends with his death.His vengeful behaviors drive the entire plot.I think there are some specific factors that cause Heathcliff to become a mercile and cruel man.Firstly, at the beginning part of the story, Hindley’s cruelty to Heathcliff has him get a taste of the cruel life and really suffer a lot, and also teaches him how to resist to his sufferings the way he receives those humiliations.As a result, it plants the strong hatred in Heathcliff’s heart.Secondly, Catherine’s betrayal which just arises from her pure love for Edgar drives Heathcliff mad.On the other hand, Heathcliff ‘s overwhelming love for Catherine adds to his hatred to Hindley and Edgar, which finally becomes the driving force of his bloody revenge.When Heathcliff is treated rather cruelly by Hindley, Catherine remains his faithful partner and true friend.They develop true love in the common resistance to Hindley’s cruelty.However, Catherine finally betrays Heathcliff and marries Edgar Linton, a very graceful and well-bred gentleman.I think her vanity, ignorance and stupidity lead to this tragedy in a way.Her behavior not only hurts Heathcliff greatly, who loves her madly all the time but hurts the next generation to some degree.It turns Heathcliff’s love into matchle hate.Catherine’s death makes Heathcliff’s hate burst out and turns to be the crazy revenge power.Heathcliff’s purpose has been achieved.Not only does he makes Hindley and Edgar die miserably, inherits the two manors, but he also make their next innocent generation suffer the consequences.Heathcliff is somewhat pitiful in a way, but he is also hateful in that he does not know the meaning of leniency and dedication.When I read this novel for the first time, I always carried a hope that Heathcliff would become a better man and regret greatly for his wrongdoings.Once I thought that his cruelty is merely an evidence of his frustrated love for Catherine, but it turned out that I was too idealistic, for Heathcliff never tries to change himself, and his malevolence proves to be so strong and long-lasting that it cannot reasonably be explained by his desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine and Edgar.The characteristics of Heathcliff are really against the traditional ones and are absolutely out of my expectations.This crazy revenge seems to be against the tradition, but it vividly demonstrates his strong spirit of rebelliousne.I think his rebelliousne is exactly a reflection of human nature.It is too natural for a man who has suffered badly to take revenges.Concerning the woman protagonist Catherine, she is Heathcliff’s never-changed love, but she is not able to overcome her vanity.To some extent, her behaviors are understandable because they are driven by her social ambitions influenced by the prevailing worship for high social status, which initially are awakened during her first stay at Linton’s family and thus compel her to marry Edgar.After their marriage, Catherine finds that her love for Heathcliff is in confliction with her loyalty to her husband and she feels miserable for that.She is torn between her wild paion for Heathcliff and her social ambition.Not able to handle her feelings well, she brings misery to both of the men who truly love her.But what’s done can’t be undone, she can do nothing but suffer the consequences caused by her herself.And the ending of her fate proves this point.Comparing Catherine and Heathcliff, I found that they have some characteristics in common.Just like Heathcliff, she is also rebellious against social conventions and likes to run around the moor.In this novel, I think Catherine represents the wild nature of human beings.Although born in a society where elegance and conservative spirits are greatly valued, she sticks to her own way of living the kind of live she really desires.From that I can feel that she is really headstrong and has her own disciplines of life.It is not so surprising that she is in high spirits at times and is occasionally cruel and somewhat wayward, because that is who she truly is, the exact figure the author strived to depict in the novel.There is no denying that she has both good points and weaknees, but it is quite natural.After all, there is no such person as perfect.This novel tells us a story about paionate love and malicious hate.Its plots are very well-organized and closely related, which are conductive to achieving the impreive and attractive effect.In view of its literary value, nowadays this novel has been studied, analyzed and discued from many aspects, such as the theme, symbolism, structure and language.As far as I am concerned, the popularity of this novel lies in its unforgettable characters and vivid revelation of human nature.It is well worth reading.3
