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!

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第二篇：呼啸山庄读书报告reading report Wuthering Heights

The hate and love in Wuthering Heights Companion reader

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? Heathcliff Catherine Earnshaw Edgar Linton Isabella Linton Hindley Earnshaw Ellen (Nelly) Dean Linton Heathcliff Catherine Linton Hareton Earnshaw Joseph Lockwood Frances Earnshaw Mr. Green Mr. Kenneth Zillah Abstract： Love and hate is one of the conflicts in Wuthering Heights. Hate can?t make the love disappear， Love is stronger than hate. This is the theme of the novel. And this article will analyze this theme.

Key words： love， hate， humanity， conflict， revenge Introduction: Wuthering Heights， the great novel by Emily Bronte， though not inordinately long is an amalgamation of childhood fantasies， friendship， romance and revenge. But this story is not a simple story of revenge； it has more profound implications. As Arnold Kettle， the English critic， said， “Wuthering Heights is an expression in the imaginative terms of art of the stresses and tensions and conflicts， personal and spiritual， of nineteenth-century capitalist society.” （1）The characters of Wuthering Heights embody the extreme love and extreme hate of the humanity. That extreme love and extreme hate mix together make the novel take on the thick

dramatic color. Love and hate is one of the conflicts in Wuthering Heights. Hate can?t make the love disappear， Love is stronger than hate. This is the theme of the novel.

Body :Wuthering Heights contrasts the effects of love and hate contrasting the two feelings. Hate can?t make the love disappear， Love is stronger than hate.This Forty years ago Wuthering Heights was filled with light， warmth and happiness. Mr.Earnshaw ， a congenial gentleman farmer， lives happily with his boisterous children Catherine and Hindley. However， being a kind and generous fellow， he can?t help rescuing a poor starving wretch off of the streets of Liverpool， a gypsy child named Heathcliff In time Heathcliff becomes one of the family， loved by all except Hindley （who nurtures the feeling of being usurped）。

Catherine is an especially good childhood friend， spending many a carefree day playing on the moor with Heathcliff. Unfortunately when Mr.Earnshaw dies suddenly， Hindley is able to express his enmity with damning cruelty. Heathcliff is condemned to the stable， a position doubly harsh given his former familial state.

As the years pass a single reason keeps， the now adult， Heathcliff from leaving and seeking his fortune-Catherine. Despite all that oppresses them （Hindley?s rages and their positions）， there is a love between them that refuses to die. Cathy has wild， gypsy blood in her and that side of her personality loves to run through the heather with her prince， Heathcliff. Here they can be children again， far from the misery which courses through

Wuthering Heights. However， the more civilized half of Cathy desires fine dresses and a respectable station in society， all things which Edgar Linton can provide. Such a collision of love and desire is ripe territory for the seeds of tragedy.

An epic tale of wild， romantic passion， set amongst the heather and wind-swept gulleys， Wuthering Heights is stirring stuff. Presenting a vision of undying love， its genesis in the innocence of youth and resolution in the chill of death， the entire spectrum of emotions is played expertly by Bronte.

Such a tale calls for a top-notch cast， players who can emote the sheer stubbornness which makes Catherine and Heathcliff destroy each other while remaining deeply in love. So staggering is Heathcliff?s pain that he?s willing to use Catherine?s sister-in-law Isabella Linton as a weapon， caring nothing for the poor lass. It?s a measure of Catherine?s stoicism that she refuses to budge even under these conditions， pretending

That she actually loves Edgar.

Love and hate is the theme of the novel. Wuthering Heights is dominated by hatred， at the last three chapters， when Catherine lying on bed and was going to die， they grab together and forgive each other. Especially after Catherine?death， love come back， humanity wake up.

Plot: The plot follows the relationship between a well-to-do country girl, Catherine, and the orphan boy, Heathcliff, taken in by her father and how their relationship affects everyone in their influence over a generation. Catherine marries a boy closer to her station and Heathcliff's life then becomes one of proving himself and of illustrating the error of his loved one's ways. It does not go well, not for anyone. This, of course, makes for an excellent tale.

My understanding:I got a mixture feeling when I finish reading this

novel.I struggled with how unsympathetic all of the characters were. They were naive, vindictive, whiny, and self-absorbed. They were, I suppose, very human. Take Catherine, she had a singularly high sense of self-worth:

But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though

everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. And they have all turned to enemies in a few hours: they have, I'm positive; the people here.

And then there is Heathcliff, the central character of the book. I expected Heathcliff to be dark and troubled and romantic and dreamy. Instead, he was possessive, controlling, and manipulative. Not to mention a little crazy by the end. Heathcliff is the kind of boyfriend who blames you for his unhappiness and reminds you over and over that he would die if you left him. He was selfish whose unpleasantness may be the result of a hard-knock life. I think so much of the tragedy in Wuthering Heights comes from pride. As Ellen Dean tells a young Heathcliff, "proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

It was Ellen Dean whom I like the most. In many ways, this is her story far more than Heathcliff's or Catherine's or Lockwood's. Sometimes, I was

frustrated by Dean's inability to see that she was making the same mistakes over and over, and her lack of imagination when it came to potential

consequences. But as our guide to the world of the Grange and the Heights and the moors, she was engaging,even as her dangerously Pollyanna-ish tendencies were frustrating. Even she saw her mistakes, her role in the story's tragedy:

I seated myself on a chair, and rocked to and fro, passing harsh judgment on my many derelictions of duty; from which, it struck me then, all the misfortunes of my employers sprang. It was not the case in reality, I am aware; but it was, in my imagination, that dismal night; and I thought Heathcliff himself less guilty than I.

Over and over, Dean justified the bad behaviour of others, or imagined that this time everything would be decorous and proper.

Perhaps, it is decorum and propriety that are to blame for Dean's

powerlessness. The time that the story happened are very unfamiliar to me as a modern, young, foreign reader. When I read books where it talk about the class distinction, I often wonder what today's equivalent would be. Is there one? In this culture so obsessed with independence and free will, it seems almost certain that Catherine and Heathcliff would indulge their passion, that

Catherine would not choose Edgar simply because Heathcliff is below her.

Even then, though, I imagine the relationship as something doomed. To me, the tragedy here lies in the flaws of the characters rather than in society's oppressions and circumstance's cruelties.

there are many other ways to read this book. That plurality appeals to me. The text supports so many interpretations, any number of focal points. I have, for instance, nothing to say about Lockwood or Joseph (although that may be because I could barely manage to interpret his accented words). If Bronte had written a simple story, with clear heroes and villains and moral lessons laid bare, would the book have withstood the test of time the way this one has? Or would it become dated and empty as mores shifted? How differently I must read this book than a 19th-century reader would have.

Finally, a word or two about madness: It is interesting the way the book conflates madness and illness while at the same time casting a moral

judgment on the sufferers of both. Sickliness is a shorthand character trait in this book and madness a character flaw. Again, this attitude is likely a product of the book's era, but it's one that I found intriguing because of the inherent contradictions I see in the way it was handled.

But in another way the story shows us the complicate inner mind of human and the passion of love and hate.The love between Heathcliff and Catherine is based on their same characteristic and intersts.The love is from their deep mind rather than desire, pure and clean. In my idea,if you really love

someone,there shouldn't have hate,but if you have hate ,that means the love in not true enough. At last Heathcliff give his hate away,and let little Catherine and little Hareton get togther.That shows true love can move everyone.

I think forgive is an important thing when you are in love with someone.As long as she or he is happy,separation is not a big deal.There is good memory in your heart,that's enough.

little Hareton is another Heathcliff, and little Catherine has the soul of

Catherine.The love is from generation to generation.When Heathcliff find Catherine in the twe young lover's eyes,he suddenly awoke,but his life was end also.He passed away with smile to love Catherine in heaven.

In its own way, Wuthering Heights is a perfect read for a long weekend. It is a novel about what happens when the guy doesn't get the girl and how the universe can be set right again. In between, there is melodrama, tragedy, madness and, possibly, ghosts. It's a quick read, a fun one, and the kind of book that gives you a little bit of insight into the stew of popular culture. Plus, it'll make you feel good about yourself, since you're almost certainly wiser, more humble, and less shallow than any of Bronte's classic characters. Conclusion: Emily Bronte shows us the tense conflict of love and hatred,at same time，she indicates the change and integration of the love and hate. Love

and hate，the two extreme feelings of the man，make Wuthering Heights mysterious. It?s hard for the reader to understand. But it?s the soul of Wuthering Heights.