第一篇:呼啸山庄读书报告英文版
The Book Report of Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a very famous novel which is written by the British writer----Emily Bronte, who is one of the most remarkable novelists of the 19th in English literature.The whole book is full of strong spirit of the struggle against oppression, the struggle for happiness, and always hangs over the strange, nervous romantic atmosphere.When Wuthering Heights was firstly published, it was seen as the young woman writer’s naive fantasy divorcing from the reality.But as time went on, based on the description of social phenomenon of British and the fierce class struggle, it soon achieved highly affirmation of the critics, and was warmly welcomed by the public.Wuthering Heights, containing plentiful emotions, sublime love and a variety of world viewpoints as well as life philosophy, is regarded as the strangest novel in the history of English literature.The novel Wuthering Heights is full of love and hatred which are both conflicted and combined.The impressive, relentless and vigorous love arouses implacable emotions in depth of the reader’s heart with its ultimate passion, infatuation and great miseries.The hatred from the deepest bottom of the heart, which has brought so many pains, shocks the reader’s brain.Wuthering Heights, through a tragic love story, shows a picture of life in an abnormal society, and outlines humanity distorted by this terrible abnormal society and resulting horrible events.The whole story is actually spread gradually through four stages.The first stage describes the happy childhood of Heathcliff and Catherine;Special feelings are formed in the special environment between an orphan and a young lady, and they give Sindre the bossy tyranny.The second stage emphatically describes that Catherine betrays Heathcliff because of her vanity, ignorant and fatuity and then become the hostess of Thrushcross grange.The third stage has an emphasis on depicting how Heathcliff turns hatred and despair into the strategy and action of revenge.The final stage just tells the Heathcliff's death.However, it reveals that when Heathcliff knows that Harry and Katie are in love, he experiences a new change in thought----the recovery of human nature, which adds a bunch of reassuring light of hope to this horrific love tragedy.Therefore, Heathcliff’s love to hate to revenge to the recovery of human nature, is not only the essence of the novel, but also a main line throughout the whole novel, from the beginning to the end.According to this sequence of changes, the author arranges to change the scenes unpredictably, sometimes in overcast, wail like ghosts and howl like wolves’ wilderness, and sometimes in stormy, gloomy miserable dark garden, so that the whole story has been shrouded in a mysterious and terrible atmosphere.In this novel, the author puts all efforts to concentrate on depicting the image of Heathcliff where she places all her sympathy, indignation and ideal.The orphan who is deprived of the warmth cultivates strong love and hate in real life.Sindre’s bossy tyranny makes him undergo the cruelty of life, and it also teaches him to understand that swallow insult and humiliation silently yield cannot alter their destiny.He chooses the revolt.Catherine was ever his faithful partner, and they had a sincere love in the common revolt.However, Catherine finally betrayed him and married Edgar Layton who she didn’t know and love.The direct cause of the love tragedy is her vanity, ignorant and stupid.The result not only ruins her own youth, love and life, but also destroys Heathcliff who is always passionately devoted to her, still brings about a little hurt to the next generation.When Emily Bronte portrays this character, her mood is very complex: she has the sympathy and the indignation;she has the regret and the whip;she has the mourning and the misfortune.Catherine's betrayal and sorrow destiny after marriage is the most significant turning point of the novel.It turns Heathcliff’s immense love into profound hate.After Catherine's death, his cavity hatred bursts out, and turns into the crazy revenge power.This crazy revenge of spite, seemingly contradictory to common sense, but most incisively expresses his unusual rebellious spirit, this is a special resistance determined by a special environment and special character.Heathcliff's love tragedy is the tragedy of the society, and the tragedy of the times.The end of the novel is that Heathcliff committed suicide.His death is a die for their love, and expresses his undying love for Catherine.Before he died, he gave up the revenge of the next generation.This reflects that he actually has a good nature, but the cruel reality makes him lose his nature.The recovery of humanity is a spiritual sublimation and reflects the humanitarian ideals.This novel also reflects what kind of social background the author suffered.In the eyes of modern people, romanticism can never exist alone without the subject of love.The love between Heathcliff and Catherine is hearty and despairing, as both of them attach great importance to their affectionate liberation and freedom.Especially to Heathcliff, his identity of adopted son and Gypsies makes him suffer lots of attack from his living environment during his growth, which gives birth to his extremely strong self-protecting and revenging consciousness.To take it good, he has a clear cut stand on what to love and what to hate;to take it bad, he has a spilt personality.Heathcliff is a typical person in which self emotion and freedom can break through everything.To him, whatever things that betray or depress him is worthy of being cursed and hated.As a result, it is destined that Heathcliff and Catherine must suffer from their fruitless love enduringly.From Emily Bronte, we can see the shadow of Catherine who is brave, strong willed and more important, rebellious.Although Catherine was born in a noble family, yet she falls in love with Heathcliff without any fear.Heathcliff is a waif picked up by Mr.Earnshaw.He is a dark-skinned gipsy, “as dark almost as if came from the devil’’.He is not welcome in Wuthering Heights even the maid Helly hates him.But Catherine shows happiness and sympathy with him and they played innocently together.She loves Heathcliff heartily, to her, Heathcliff is innermost herself.From my point of view, Catherine represents wild nature, in both her high, lively spirits and her occasional cruelty.She loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person.However, her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar.Catherine is free—spirited, beautiful, spoiled, and often arrogant, she is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her both of the men who love her.The location of her coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life.She is buried in a corner of the Kirkyard.In contrast to Catherine, Isabella Linton—Catherine’s sister—in—law represents culture and civilization, both in her refinement and in her weakness.Ultimately, she ruins her life by falling in love with Heathcliff.He never returns her feelings and treats her as a mere tool in his quest for revenge on the Linton family.The weak side of their characters brings about the tragedy destiny.At Victorian times, marriage is well-matched in social and economic status.Catherine cannot get rid of the old traditional trammels, though she loves Heathcliff deeply.She is seduced by the refined and tranquil Thrushcross Grange.Her visit to the Grange preludes the tragedy of their love.Looking through the window of the Grange, Catherine sees a world completely different from the bleak and deckling Heights.It is an attractive place, possessing everything that Heathcliff doesn’t have social position, wealth and comfortable life.She decides to marry Edgar Linton, because she wants to be the greatest woman of the neighborhood.In fact, choosing Edgar, she is deliberately false to her own world, just as what Heathcliff comments: an oak is planted in a flowerpot.So when Heathcliff returns, she is eager to feel the value of her existence in him.She tries to reconcile her feeling with what Linton represents, but the two sides can’t be reconciled at all.She can’t bear such suffering, falls in ill and never recovers.Catherine dies at the birth of her daughter Cathy and Emily Bronte, the creator of Catherine, dies at the age of thirty.As we know, Emily Bronte lived in the early 19th century, that is, the unrest beginning period of the Victorian age.With the Industrial Revolution exerting its influence on the whole British society, capitalism enjoyed rapid development while exposing more and more its defects: severe confrontation between capitalists and workers;high unemployment rate;the widening gap between the rich and poor.Under these circumstances, various social evils began to develop and spread.The author also finished her famous work Wuthering Heights under such background.In this novel, we can see that the author criticized a series of social evils through her description of plot.For example, in this novel, Heathcliff had suffered discrimination and persecution since he was young.What contributes to this situation is just that Heathcliff is an orphan who comes from lower class.Heathcliff also represents many Gypsies who lived in hardship of that time.In the novel, Heathcliff and Cathy were innocent playmates;they developed their love since they were young.But as they grew up, Cathy gradually realized the immense disparities of their social status and their love was unacceptable to the society of that time.Strict hierarchy accounted for their separation.So the author here criticized not only racial discrimination bur also hierarchy.In a word, the society of that time was money-oriented and full of hypocrisy.Under such circumstances, it is hard to keep the purity of human’s nature.Emily Bronte, as a traditional British lady following conservative morals standard, uses a unique and keen sense of perspective to reveal the human nature, to discuss the human nature, to understand the human nature, which makes me feel surprised.In her works, love and hate are the most essential, most free states to be released and extended.She helps us to see the most beautiful side, at the same time, the ugliest side of human nature, to discover good and evil in the heart that no one can escape.The charm of the novel comes from its deep beauty and tragedy, from the pursuit to human power in spiritual world, from the unique natural wilderness, from the free, restless vigor that is undisciplined like the wind on the wild places in Yorkshire.In Wuthering Heights, despite that Heathcliff and Catherine’s nature was distorted when they are alive, but after the two people died, the flesh back to dirt, their soul roaming the wilderness, man and nature reached an eternal unity.The dead, alive, the everlasting love will never fade away.The writer’s emotional depth and rich have massive inner passion, and she uses the transcendental love to frame a cruel beauty, making the whole piece of work take on a romantic atmosphere as bearing a cross.After the storm, there will be cool and calm with sunshine;after the shock, there will be the deep thinking and imagination of it is worth cherishing.After reading Wuthering Heights, I only hope that after the end of their love and hate, Heathcliff and Catherine can achieve the eternal tranquility.18110609李倩
第二篇:呼啸山庄英文读书报告
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A Report on Wuthering Heights
In Wuthering Heights(John Murray edition,1910), Emily Bronte tells the story of love and revenge.Wuthering Heights is written by the time span of thirty years, describes a complex emotional relationships of two generations between the Earnshaw family and Linton family.Heathcliff was a poor gipsy orphan who was deserted on a dirty street.The old kind Mr.Earnshaw took him back and brought him up.Mr.Earnshaw had a beautiful daughter, Catherine Earnshaw, and a son, Hindley.After Heathcliff’s coming to the family, Catherine became his good friend while Hindley always looked down upon the black-haired boy, treated him badly, and tired his best to make him a poor dull farm worker.Because of Heathcliff’s lowly status, he couldn’t offer a comfortable life to Catherine and at last she married Edgar.Linton, a rich young man living in Thrushcross Grange.The whole novel can be divided into four parts.The first phase describes the daily life of Heathcliff and Catherine’s childhood, their special affection is formed in this particular environment as well as their revolt against the tyrannical Hindley.The second phase focuses on the Catherine pursuit of the traditional of human love and betrayed Heathcliff and she became the mistress of thrush.She admitted to Donnelly that her love to Linton who is young, handsome man.He loves her as well as her wealth, let her to become the most distinguished woman.Catherine has said:”In my heart and soul, I clearly know I was wrong.” Because she also loves Heathcliff.The third phase uses a large pen and ink describing Heathcliff’s revenge.The last part of novel is the death of Heathcliff but revealed a new change in the thinking experience-the recovery of humanity when he understood the love between Hareton and Catherine, so we can see a bunch a hope in the tragic love story.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods;time will change it.I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visible delight, but necessary.Nell, I am Heathcliff!He's always always in my mind;not as a pleasure, any ore than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.Love ,when it was passionate, it was sun,rain and sugar;but when itwasn’t passionate, it became a sharp arrow, the deeper you loved, the worse scar you would had.As for a person who had already got hurt badly, love can be a dealcohol agent, which can worn him to be cautious before fall in love again.However, even though it can not be able to prevent the coming of love, until it break all the fantasy of love into pieces one more time.I don’t know exactly how many people died for love, but I believe that most of them had decided to keep alive eventually.They continued to be living, til the time smooth the painful memory.Once think about that one day, all of us well be vanished in the memory of the person who we loved before.What a terrible thing!
I cannot express it;but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained
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here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning:my great thought in living is himself.If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be;and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.Nelly, I am Heathcliff!He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.So don't talk of our separation again.As long as you keep alive, you have to deal with all kinds of things,until these confused things fall the first memory into oblivion, make the life return to the peaceful status, and make you hope for nothing.In my idea, if a person can live by memory and revenge like Heathcliff , we can really count it as a life of luxury.At present, I am listening the song named Where Did You Sleep Last Night, I descend into the dark and hysterical.It remind me of Heathcliff who looks like a grim people but has the most passionate love inside.Maybe, I love his arbitrary, his unreasonable, especially his hysterical, stubborn.Once you love someone, you become extraordinarily stubborn, be so possessive of her, even be a mass of bruises, you still never let go.The stronger to surface, the weaker to inside.I want to hug the grim Heathcliff, have you ever saw the tears slipped along his face in the hopeless darkness.If during my lifetime, I have the opportunity to have a love like this, I think I will not try to deny.Compare Jane Eyre with Wuthering Heights, I didn’t find any differences on the expression of love.If there is a difference, I think Wuthering Heignts voices that I love more, hate more, and more painful.This kind of love has reached to their limitation,it will bring no more than crazy and devastation.For two people who love each other with great passion, We,Human,You,Outside can be nothing, because they are the Universe for each other.Emily Bronte merely lived thirty years, I don’t know her experience.But I think she was burned by the passion and despair, and maybe this is a happy thing for her.
第三篇:呼啸山庄读书报告 英文
Wuthering Heights ——Revenge
Well, before I begin my part, I would like to ask you a question that is if you hate a person a lot, what will you do? Keep silence? Talk about your feelings with the person immediately and try to solve the problem? Or hurt the person to express your anger? Or deal with it in other ways? Who can give me you’re an answer? Now let’s come back to our novel.What did the hero, Heathcliff do when he had extreme hatred? He chose to revenge.Then in the following part, I’ll begin with the revenge in Wuthering Heights.Later on, I’d like to talk about some other related things about revenge.First, let’s see the revenge in the novel.We know that Heathcliff lives in an abnormal way.People around despised this ‘evil gypsy’.When his beloved Catherine married the gentleman, Edger Linton, for wealth and reputation, Heathcliff’s heart broke completely.His hatred towards Hindley and the Lintons became stronger.When Catherine died, Heathcliff was like an active volcano, boom!
Heathcliff had a careful plan to revenge.In his generation, I’d like to mainly say something about his marriage with Isabella.This action is the key step to take over the property of the Lintons.and vexed Edger mentally.Just as Isabella’s angry words ‘Whatever he may pretend, he wishes to provoke Edger to desperation;he says he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him…’Also, we can consider it his revenge to Catherine.He knew Catherine’s deep love towards him.He knew his marriage would hurt Catherine in the same way that she hurt him.The joy of revenge and the sorrow of love mixed together to become a very complicated feeling.Indeed, Heathcliff is such a complicated character.It’s not difficult to imagine his fierce inter struggles.Meanwhile, Heathcliff abused his wife, Isabella, as a sort of amusement.As he himself pointed out, his abuse of Isabella is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.According to a modern study, a lot of criminals were lack of love.They get apathy even hatred from the society.If the seeds of enmity are planted in people’s hearts when they were kids, how can we expect these people to be friendly and kind? What goes around comes around.H is a typical character.When hatred gets its foothold in his soul, his choice is revenge.When we are shocked by H’s violence, we can feel a little bit sadness, too.Although maybe we can consider Hindley Earshaw and the Lintos Heathcliff’s enemy, it’s none of their children’s business, right? We always say that the children are innocent.But Heathcliff could not stop the mad beast called revenge from extending its reach to the next generation.‘…I want the triumph of seeing…my child hiring their children to till their father’s land for wages.’ What a terrible and poor man!Because his own life is miserable, he wanted to let the next generation suffer from what he has suffered.He used to say to the five years old boy, Hindley’s son, Hareton: ‘Now, my bonny lad, you are mine!And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!’ It’s the sort of thing that can be done by the demon.Heathcliff did make the boy as his own duplicate and ruined the boy.Will you be as lowly as a maid or a servant in you own house? It sounds quite ridiculous!1
But in a matter of fact, Hareton did so.Thanks to Mr.Heathcliff, he gave Hareton the very precious chance to experience such an unusual life.As we known, loving our own children is human’s nature.But it is not right for Heathcliff.Hatred blinded his eyes.In order to revenge, he could make use of his own son and watched him die in the end.As for Catherine Linton, the creature became a poor widow.She and Heraton loved each other but couldn’t get together because they were under devil Heathcliff’s control.Heathcliff abandoned everything and used all kinds of ways to reach his destination—revenge.Back to back tragedies were made, tragedies of the Earshaws, the Lintons and himself.Now classmates, we can come out of Wuthering Heights for a moment.Next, I’ll tell you a mythology.Once upon a time, there was a charming princess called Medea.She owned the power of magic.Her peaceful life would go on if Jason, one of the Greece heroes, had not appeared.Jason came there to get the Golden Fleece(the wool from a golden sheep), the symbol of a priceless treasure.Medea fell in love with him.She helped Jason get the Golden Fleece and betrayed her father and her own country and ran away with Jason.In order to get rid of the chase, Medea killed her brother and cut his body into pieces.After Medea and Jason settled down, Medea gave birth to two sons.But it’s not the happy ending.The king of the country wanted Jason to marry his daughter.Then Jason abandoned Medea who loved him and helped him a lot.He married the princess because of the wealth and the power.Medea was extremely sad and angry.She gave the princess a beautiful dress which contained poison.With out knowing the truth, the bride put it on.Obviously, the bride died.The king cried and held his dear daughter tightly in his arms.He also died because he touched the poison.But to Medea, it was far from enough.She killed her own sons in front of Jason.Though the father pleaded to kiss his sons’ bodies for the last time, Medea refused him coldly.She flew away with her dead sons and her broken heart.Jason was left alone.He had lost everything.Finally, he ended his life with the sword.Thus, Medea became the goddess of revenge.After finishing the story, we can find that Heathcliff and Medea have a lot in common.Both of them had strong love and hatred.The most important thing is when they were treated by unfair things and betrayed by lovers, they chose to revenge: Heathcliff took steps to get all the property of the two families;Medea killed all the related people to pay back to Jason.To some extent, the revenge showed their rebellious spirit.Heathcliff and Medea didn’t comply with the unfair fate.They changed from victims to avengers.When we are shocked by the avengers, we feel pity at the same time.However, there is difference between Medea and Heathcliff.What’s the difference then? One is woman and the other is man? Of course not.The real difference is: it’s a total tragedy that Medea destroyed everything including herself;as for Heathcliff, although he lived most of his life with hatred and revenge, he gave up his revenge to the next generation, Heraton and Catherine.It’s a kind of revival of humanity.A moment later, my partner, Cathy, will analyze the revival of humanity to you.Today we talked much about the revenge, and I do hope the more we know the revenge, the more we value the harmony and the peace.Thank you!
第四篇:读书报告呼啸山庄
剪不断的情仇,理不完的因果
《呼啸山庄》这部人间情爱最宏伟的史诗,通过一个爱情悲剧向人们展示了一幅畸形社会的生活画面,勾勒了被这个畸形社会扭曲了的人性及其造成的种种恐怖事件,整个故事似乎很符合情理并不离奇,它宛如一首奇特的抒情诗,字里行间充满着丰富的想象和狂风般猛烈的情感,带给人们一种超乎想象的震撼力,使每一个读过它的人都心潮澎湃,久久不能平静。
使《呼啸山庄》成为不朽之作的是作者艾米莉·勃朗特丰富的想象力和强烈的激情以及把主题提高到哲理高度的才华。希思克利夫和凯瑟琳的生死恋,爱得这样强烈,这样真挚。可是在他们的爱情里没有阳光般的温柔,没有甜蜜的情语,有的只是弥漫在阴郁、仇恨、误解、怨愤交织混杂的情网下疯狂的爱。就像小说里贯穿始终的气氛:阴云密布、鬼哭狼嚎的旷野,风狂雨骤、阴森惨暗的庭院。
凯瑟琳是敢于追求真爱的,追求那种纯洁、美好、高尚的爱。她在对艾伦·丁恩讲到她爱希思克利夫时说:“我这么爱他,并不是因为他长得英俊,而是因为他比我自己更像我自己。不管我们的灵魂是什么做的,他的和我的是完全一样的。”在这个世界上,凯瑟琳最大的悲苦就是希思克利夫的悲苦,她活着的最大目的就是希思克利夫。及时别的一切全都消亡了,只要他留下来她就能继续活下去,而要是别的一切都留下来,只有他给毁灭了,那整个世界就成了一个极其陌生的地方,凯瑟琳就不再像是它的一部分了。她对林敦的爱就像林中的树叶,当冬天使树木发生变化的时候,时光也会使叶子发生变化。而她对希思克利夫的爱恰似脚下恒久不变的岩石。凯瑟琳曾经激动的说过:“我就是希思克利夫!他并不是作为一种乐趣,而是作为我自身存在我的心中。我爱他脚下的土地,他头上的天空,我爱他碰过的一切东西,他说的每一句话。我爱他所有的表情,他的一举一动,爱他的整个人,爱他的一切。”
可是画眉山庄宁静温存的诱惑,五个星期的时间把粗野、任性的凯瑟琳调教成了一个文雅的淑女,使这个两人的整体发生了分裂。凯萨琳爱上埃德加的年轻、英俊、活跃及他的财富。虚荣、无知和愚昧使她背弃了希思克利夫,成了画眉山庄的女主人。不久,沉闷的婚姻生活把她从幻想打回了现实,她最想要的不是贵妇般的生活而是野性的、冒险的自由。当她想重拾心底最真的情感,想要冲破一切束缚,试图越过难以逾越的造化的鸿沟紧紧握住希思克利夫的手的时候,却为这危险的爱付出了惨重的代价,重病而逝,从此二人阴阳两隔。对于凯瑟琳有同情也有愤慨,有惋惜也有鞭笞,既哀其不幸,又怒其不争。一切的不幸皆因她的年少无知和贪慕虚荣。
希思克利夫,这个被剥夺了亲情和温暖的弃儿在实际生活中培养了强烈的爱与恨,亨得利的皮鞭使他尝到了人生的残酷,也教会他懂得忍气吞声的屈服无法改变自己受辱的命运。于是他选择了反抗,决定挑战自己的命运。在呼啸山庄的那段日子里,他过的并不快乐,从小艰苦的生活让他心门紧闭,因为他是极度缺乏安全感的,在不确定别人是否真心前他是绝对不会付出真心的。凯瑟琳也许是他唯一敞开心扉真心对待的人,她陪他看书陪他玩耍,当他被亨得利欺负的时候她替他不平,她的热度渐渐融化了他冰封的心,两人萌发了真挚的爱情。老庄主死后,希思克利夫沦为仆人,此时的他除了拥有凯瑟琳的爱什么都没有,甚至是尊严。凯瑟琳几乎就是他的生命,是他生活的全部希望。
希思克利夫说:“两个词就可以概括我的未来了,死亡和地域。失去了她,或者也在地狱里。”为了要见凯瑟琳一面,他在画眉山庄等了三天三夜,他半夜去挖开凯瑟琳的坟墓。他撬开她的棺材的一侧,还买通教堂执事,待他死后吧他的棺材一侧也撬开,以便相通。直到最后睁眼闭眼都只见到凯萨琳而死去。尽管他们两人不被世俗的眼光所接受,一个是有修养的富家千金,一个是出身低贱的流浪儿,但是越是遥远的距离让两个默契的灵魂依偎得越
近。这样的爱,是自然之爱,原始之爱,精神之爱,灵魂之爱,因为他们俩的灵魂曾经是一个不分彼此的整体,只不过是肉体有两个而已。
上帝终究没有眷顾希思克利夫,这份让他赖以生存的爱并没有持续多久,在那个时代,爱情根本不能与世俗的社会、金钱的诱惑相抗衡,在那个时代贫穷是可耻的。再次被抛弃让他悲痛至极,爱人的离去激化了他人性中报复的阴暗面,曾经因凯瑟琳爱的感化而深藏心底的野性暴露无遗,日益尖锐直至占据他灵魂的绝大部分,他变得恐怖而阴森。在通往地狱的路途中希思克利夫没有一次偏离过轨迹,这不同于《基督山伯爵》里的复仇,他始终在爱与恨两个对立而并存的情感间盘旋着。希克厉的生命来源于没有爱的起点,复仇与堕落来源于对卡瑟琳由爱生恨的承接,结束于冻结的人性中一道宣告着复苏的光芒——还是爱。当希思克利夫亲耳听到凯瑟琳说嫁了他就降低了自己的身份便带着一颗破碎的心愤然出走。三年后他归来发现凯瑟琳已嫁给埃德加,后又与凯瑟琳相聚不成便决定展开一系列令人发指的报复。夺走亨得利的家财,故意娶伊莎贝拉进行迫害,强迫小凯瑟琳下嫁给自己将死的儿子,把哈里顿当成奴仆,待埃德加死后,把画眉山庄占为己有等等。这种疯狂的报仇泄恨,貌似悖于常理,但却淋漓尽致地表达了他非同一般的叛逆精神,这是一种特殊环境、特殊性格所决定的特殊反抗。
希思克利夫的爱毕竟还是战胜了自己的恨,当他的复仇计划一一实现的时候,他并没有胜利的喜悦,反而在凯蒂和哈里顿的眼里看到了凯瑟琳的影子,他被哈里顿和凯蒂的真爱感动了,他的人性复苏了,放弃了在下一代身上报复的念头,但是他的生命也走到了尽头。他在茫茫荒原上漫游着,呼唤着凯瑟琳在原野上孤单的飘荡了二十多年的灵魂,最后不吃不喝带着笑安然离去,到另一个世界与凯瑟琳携手而游。这样一个饱受苦难和屈辱的人物,对爱情至死不渝的渴求,对命运不屈不挠的抗争,真是一生追求,死而无悔,尽管复仇手段显得残忍,但读来还是让人感到苍凉和悲壮。后来,村里人看见有两个人在旷野上漫步,艾米莉用一种超越生死的完美让凯瑟琳与希思克利夫走到了一起。一场惊天动地的明争暗斗,剩下宁静的旷野,飘动的柔风,死去的人,活着的人,情在绵亘,情无绝期。
希思克利夫和凯瑟琳是紧紧相拥无法分离的恋人,用彼此的泪水洗刷彼此的爱恨,用刻薄绝情的话语刺伤彼此脆弱的心灵,用无法遏制的激情燃烧彼此的生命。希思克利夫从人到魔再到人的变化皆因情随坏境而变,人与环境是相互依存的,当环境与人相对立的时候,人的个性就会发生变化,随之,命运也将为之改变。他是那个黑暗的时代里千千万万个贫穷的苦命人的缩影,因为贫穷,他们挥霍不起一丝温暖,更何况是爱情。如果说希思克利夫是魔鬼那么凯瑟琳就是魔鬼的缔造者,他不能宽恕她也无法原谅,他们用彼此的恨延续彼此的爱,用彼此的怨念维持彼此的思念,在这份异乎寻常的爱和激情中选择万劫不复的纠缠。
作者的艺术构思和叙事手法也反映了《呼啸山庄》的独创性。它没有经过城市文明的熏陶和浸染,是完全用山乡荒原的自然色调绘成。故事的背景是一片狂风呼啸的荒原,故事中的人物还保留着大自然的风貌和原始的本性:爱起来不顾一切,恨起来不计后果。艾米莉打破传统,采用了倒叙的手法忙吧呼啸山庄的那种荒凉败落的环境和人际间冷漠、紧张的气氛,呈现在读者的面前,使读者和洛克伍德一起产生了种种疑团。通过洛克伍德夜宿山庄的所见所闻,更加增加了悬念,迫使读者非去寻根问底,弄个水落石出不可。尤其是洛克伍德睡进那张柜式的卧榻,看到窗台上画的“凯瑟琳·恩肖、凯瑟琳·希思克利夫和凯瑟琳·林敦”三个名字,梦见幽灵要进房间等步步扣人心弦,让人不得不感叹作者的艺术才能。世间的一切情仇皆有其因果,我们应当学会在适当的时候放手,退一步海阔天空。给别人宽恕就等于给自己幸福。
第五篇:呼啸山庄-读书报告
《呼啸山庄》读书笔记
这是一个异类“才子佳人”的故事,这是一部“精神恋”之巅峰之作,这是一部最宏伟的爱情史诗。整部小说宛如一首激情澎湃的叙事长诗,把主人公间惊天动地、超越生死的爱情与荒原和狂暴的自然融为一体,字里行间充满着丰富的想象和狂飙般猛烈的情感,具有震撼人心的艺术力量。
小说叙述了一个受尽社会偏见和屈辱的人用一生复仇的悲剧故事。流浪儿希思克利夫被呼啸山庄的主人老欧肖收养为子,欧肖女儿卡琵琳挚爱着他;儿子亨德莱却憎恨他夺了父爱,以致老欧肖死后将希沦为奴仆。卡、希二人探访画眉山庄时,卡爱上山庄长子林敦并与之结婚,希悲伤出走,三年后归来开始了复仇。他使亨德莱坠落,使其子哈里顿丧失人性,并引诱林敦的妹妹伊莎贝拉同他结婚生下儿子小林敦。卡死前生下卡茜。亨德莱死后,希成为呼啸山庄债权人并将哈里顿沦为奴仆,他迫使儿子小林敦与卡茜结婚,小林敦结婚没多久就去世了,他终于将两家财产都弄到手„„
初读这部书,觉得希斯克利夫是一个十恶不赦的虐待狂,他被仇恨蒙蔽了双眼,一心只想着复仇,并且为了复仇不择手段,给他人带来了巨大的灾难。就连夏洛蒂给她妹妹的遗作写序,也这么说:“只有希斯克利夫才真正是百罪莫赎,在他那直奔地狱的道路上从没有一次偏离过方向。”
为了复仇,他诱拐伊莎贝拉同他结婚,但婚后马上开始百般虐待她。为了复仇,他把小哈里顿教育成了一个浑浑噩噩、粗暴无礼、满口脏
话的野蛮人。为了复仇,他更是摧残了小凯茜的人性,把她从一个美丽活泼而又温柔多情的好姑娘变成了一个冷漠傲慢而又不近人情的少妇。他拿她的表弟做诱饵,把她骗进了他设的陷阱之中,于是她立即失去了一切自由,遭到了平生从未遭受过的拳打脚踢。并且,希还通过非法的手段,剥夺了她的全部财产,同时又剥夺了她的一切精神财富,把一个感情丰富的少女扔进了一片精神沙漠中。小林敦快要断气时,只有她整日整夜伺候那最难伺候的病人。在她最苦恼,最需要同情与帮助的时刻,却看不到一个善意的眼神,没有一个人向她伸出一只同情的手,于是她承受不了那样可怕的精神折磨,终于性格被扭曲了。以致于席拉这样批评她到:“在我们中间没有一个人爱她或是喜欢她,她也不配;只要谁对她说半句话,她就转过脸去,一点也不客气。”一位爱人、也被人爱的好姑娘,在他的摧残下,变成了一个恨人、也被人恨的冷漠少妇,这就是希斯克利夫酿成的悲剧。为了复仇,他使亨德莱坠落,并在他死后夺得了他的财产。为了复仇,他使林敦在凄苦中死去,还在其死后夺得了他的全部财产„„希斯克利夫为了复仇,让伊莎贝拉、哈里顿、小卡瑟琳、亨德莱以及林敦饱尝了苦果,他变成了一个十恶不赦的的恶棍。
但随着阅读和思考的深入,我逐渐意识到:希斯克利夫是这部小说中最可悲的一个人。童年时代的希斯克利夫是一个受尽欺侮的弃儿,虽然老欧肖把他收为养子并无私地爱着他,但其子亨德莱却憎恨他夺了父爱,以致老欧肖死后将希沦为奴仆,这个被剥夺了人间温暖的弃儿在实际生活中培养了强烈的爱与憎,亨德莱的皮鞭使他尝到了人生的残酷,也教会他懂得忍气吞声的屈服无法改变自己受辱的命运,他选择了反抗。而自己曾经最忠实的伙伴,和自己产生真挚的爱情的卡瑟琳最后却背叛了他,嫁给了有权势有地位的埃德加•林敦。于是他失去了希望,于是他决定离开,于是他对卡瑟琳满腔的爱化为了无比的恨。凯瑟琳一死,这腔仇恨火山般迸发出来,成了疯狂的复仇动力。这种疯狂的报仇泄恨,貌似悖于常理,但却淋漓尽致地表达了他非同一般的叛逆精神,这是一种特殊环境、特殊性格所决定的特殊反抗。希斯克利夫是可怜的,他被复仇蒙蔽了双眼,以致于一直活在复仇的阴影中,被人们所痛恨。恨虽然强大,却是孤独的,虚弱的,渺小的。最后希斯克利夫达到复仇目的后自杀,他的死是一种殉情,表达了他对凯瑟琳生死不渝的爱,一种生不能同眠、死也求同穴的爱的追求。而他临死前放弃了在下一代身上报复的念头,表明他的天性本来是善良的,只是由于残酷的现实扭曲了他的天性,迫使他变得暴虐无情。这是一种人性的复苏,是一种精神上的升华。
希斯克利夫的爱——恨——复仇——人性的复苏,是小说贯穿始终的一条红线。作者依此脉络,谋篇布局,把场景安排得变幻莫测,有时在阴云密布、鬼哭狼嚎的旷野,有时又是风狂雨骤、阴森惨暗的庭院,故事始终笼罩在一种神秘和恐怖的气氛之中。没有城市,工业,时尚,只是荒野,田庄,嶙峋的石,在旷野上飞奔的爱,扑朔迷离的眷恋,交杂无续的恨。艾米莉特意营造出诡异的梦魇般的夸张氛围,淋漓尽致地展现了最深的迷恋,最痴的执著,最痛苦的挣扎。