呼啸山庄（WUTHERING HEIGHTS）英文读后感
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呼啸山庄（WUTHERING HEIGHTS）英文读后感
Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading
public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural–and author
Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a
failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second
printing with an introduction by Emily’s sister Charlotte, that it attracted
a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never
looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of
English literature.
Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty
love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up
in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and
brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet–it possesses
a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss
that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.
The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to
his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of
the family–which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to
the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights.
It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a “Gipsy” child who
he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the
perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although
Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower
herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another,
and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to “get into;” the opening chapters
are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that
they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a
remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in
all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions
as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally
remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their
impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.
As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most
elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone:
Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems
reflected in every part of his world–dragging her corpse from the grave,
hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for
the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may
never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and
there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.
It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with
unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you
should read it at least once–and those who do like it will return to it again
and again.
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呼啸山庄（WUTHERINGHEIGHTS）英文读后感 Publishedin1847,WUTHERINGHEIGHTSwasnotwellreceivedbythereadingpublic,manyofwhomcondemneditassordid,vulgar,andunnatural–andauthorEmilyBrontewenttohergravein1848believingthatheronlynovelwasafailure.Itwasnotuntil1850,whenWUTHERINGHEIGHTSreceivedasecondprintingwithanintroduc...
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