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Review on Wuthering Heights
I.Introduction
Wuthering Height was written by Emily Bronte, who was a famous female writer.Emily Bronte was born in 1818.And she lived most of her life in the Yorkshire moors that she immortalized in Wuthering Heights.She was the fifth in a family of six children, growing up in a stone personage in a village called Haworth.When Emily was only two years old, their mother Maria was died.The young Brontes were sent to a school for poor children of clergymen, a dreadful place that inspired the fictional school in Emily’s sister Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.Later, they came home to Haworth, where they were cared by an aunt.Poetry, history, and politics were among the conversation topics at home.Such talk fed the active imaginations of the Bronte children.Of the three writing Bronte sisters, Emily was the most peculiar one.Reclusive and nontalkative, she attended to her chores with a dutiful, stoic nature.Only while roaming the moors did she become truly alive.In fact, during the brief times she spent away from Haworth, at school in Bruels with Charlotte as a young woman.She became homesick and physically ill.Though being confronted with such difficulties, she kept writing.When Wuthering Heights was published in 1847, the pen name she chose caused much confusion and it was often aumed that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights were written by the same person.Emily’s novel was badly edited and received mixed reviews.Nonethele, Emily began to work on her second novel.In 1848, a year after the publication of Wuthering Heights, Emily caught a cold at a funeral, which, with her typical stoicism, she ignored.The cold steadily developed into a far more serious illne, but Emily refused all medical advice.At last, barely capable of breathing without going into a fit of coughing, she steadfastly attended to her usual chores.After Emily had been ill for nearly two months, on December 19, 1848, she broke down.Shortly after, she died.And yet, she is remembered as Charlotte once described her: “Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.”
Chen Yafei, Cla 1, 2009, Foreign Languages School
When the novel began, it was 1801.Mr.Lockwood, the narrator of the story arrived at Thrushcro Grange, a grand house that he was renting from Heathcliff, who lived at nearby Wuthering Heights.He spent a night at Wuthering Heights and had a terrifying dream.Later, Lockwood asked the housekeeper Mrs.Nelly Dean to tell the story of Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights.It was a story that flashed back thirty years to 1771, when Mr.Earnshaw brought a street orphan home.He called him Heathcliff and intended to raise him alongside his own children, Catherine and Hindley.Hindley was intensively jealous of the new arrival and saw him as an interloper and rival.However, Catherine became Heathcliff’s inseparable friend and fell in love with him.After Mr.Earnshaw’s death, Hindley took over the estate.He brutalized Heathcliff, forcing him to work as a hired hand.And he forbade his sister to be with Heathcliff.Later, Catherine became a friend of Edgar, who was a mild and refined young man and agreed to marry him.Heathcliff was very depreed and angry, then he left Wuthering Heights.Some time later, he returned and he had mysteriously become very wealthy.He began to take revenge on those who prevented him from being with Catherine.Through his efforts, he took ownership of Wuthering Heights upon Hindley’s death.Intent on ruining Edgar, Heathcliff married Edgar’s sister Isabella, which placed him in a position to inherit Thrushcro Grange after Edgar’s death.Catherine became very ill after Heathcliff’s return and died a few hours after giving birth to a daughter also named Catherine.Later, Heathcliff became more bitter and revengeful.His wife Isabella left him and subsequently gave birth to a boy, Linton.Meanwhile, Heathcliff succeeded in taking ownership of Wuthering Heights and vowed to raise Hindley’s son, Harenton.Then, in order to rule the property of his enemy, he persuaded Catherine to marry Linton.Soon after, Edgar Linton died, followed shortly by Linton Heathcliff.This left Catherine a widow at Wuthering Heights, as Heathcliff had gained compete control of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcro Grange.Even thus, he was not happy at all.At last, he committed himself and he was buried near to Catherine.The whole story was really a tragedy.Mr.Lockwood was shocked by the story and the story concluded with Mr.Lockwood visiting the grave.The novel divides into several chapters, and each chapter seems to set up a leon for us to learn.When I was reading this novel, what impreed me most was the unhappy marriages.In this novel there existed several unhappy marriages.One of the examples was the marriage between Isabella and Heathcliff.Isabella didn’t know Heathcliff well when she married him.She was just attracted by his appearance, but later she realized that Heaththcliff was not a gentleman at all.As a result, what she only could do was to regret for herself.Another example had happened between Catherine and Edgar.Although she had been happy at the beginning of the marriage, after a while, she became bored and she also realized that her true love was Heathcliff.In my opinion, her choosing to marry Edgar was just because she wanted to be rich and to be the greatest woman in the neighborhood.Till now, I can remember clearly that Catherine said to Mrs.Dean: “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now.” From her words, we can see that she cared wealth and social status more than true love, which should be responsible for her unhappy marriage.In our daily lives, there also exist many people who share the same opinion with Catherine.There is no doubt that they also have suffered a lot from their unhappy marriages.It is my personal belief that a succeful marriage should not be based on wealth, beauty or social status.However, the true love, respect, knowing about the one you choose are the eential factors in marriage.To everyone, marriage seems to be one of the most important things in life.It has great influence on our daily lives, our physical and mental health, our social relationship and even our fate.So, we should take our marriage seriously and choose the one who is really right for us.Thus, can we have a succeful marriage and a happy life.After reading the whole story, I was shocked by Heathcliff’s revenge and learned a lot from it.Because of the animosities between himself and others, Heathcliff used all means he could to take revenge on them.Not only did his wicked actions do lots of harm to others, but also these actions hurt himself a lot.During the proce of taking revenge on others, his sense of superiority had faded away.Then his appearance began to reflect the state of his mind.His walk lacked confidence;he looked disagreeable, and spoke seldom.Even though he succeeded in taking poeion of all the wealth, he was not happy at all.At last, he
committed himself.As it says that “Whoever seeks revenge should dig two graves.” Just like Heathcliff, if he could recognize this principle and follow it, all the tragedies could be avoided.It is widely known that to forgive and forget offenses enable imperfect people to grow and improve.Maybe, it is easier said than done.However, the longer you wait to forgive someone, the harder it becomes.In our daily lives, it is unavoidable to hurt others or to be hurt by others.If we are too sensitive to it and pay much attention on it, we’ll be unhappy all day and we can not get along well with others around us.Our society worships harmony.Being tolerant and having a harmonious relationship with others will benefit us a lot.Next time when you get hurt, remember the saying “To err is human;to forgive, divine.” and follow those instructions.Only in this way can we live happily and make our society more harmonious.All in all, I really learned a lot from this novel.It deserves our reading.
