《呼啸山庄》读书报告

《呼啸山庄》是英国女作家艾米莉·勃朗特的作品。这是一个关于爱情和复仇的悲剧。呼啸山庄的老主人老恩萧外出捡到一个孤儿带回家抚养，取名为希刺克厉夫。老恩萧对他的爱远远超过了自己的亲生孩子辛德雷和凯瑟琳。老恩萧死后，继承人辛德雷因为嫉妒，把希刺克厉夫贬为佣人，百般折磨他，但是凯瑟琳却与希刺克厉夫青梅竹马。后来凯瑟琳在画眉田庄认识了埃德加·林惇，并在画眉田庄的老主人的教育影响下，爱上了埃德加，希刺克厉夫愤怒地远走他乡。三年后希刺克厉夫回乡，凯瑟琳已嫁给了埃德加。希刺克厉夫开始了他的复仇计划，他与辛德雷赌博赢取钱财。希刺克厉夫在画眉山庄接近凯瑟琳，这使埃德加的妹妹伊莎贝尔爱上了他，希刺克厉夫娶了伊莎贝尔。内心受到折磨的凯瑟琳难产病死，留下了女儿小凯瑟琳。凯瑟琳死后，辛德雷醉酒而死。希刺克厉夫成了呼啸山庄的主人。他把辛德雷的儿子哈里顿贬为奴仆。伊莎贝尔在生下儿子小林惇后就死去了。十二年后希刺克厉夫安排自己的儿子与小凯瑟琳结婚。埃德加死后，身体虚弱的小林惇也很快病死，希刺克厉夫占有了画眉田庄。在呼啸山庄，哈里顿与小凯瑟琳相爱了，几个月后希刺克厉夫死去，哈里顿与小凯瑟琳结婚。

《呼啸山庄》是艾米莉的“绝唱”，同时是英国文学一颗璀璨的宝石。读完它，我感受到的不是欢乐，而是痛苦的纠结和折磨。

作者在这本书中塑造了一个复仇者希刺克厉夫的形象，他是整本书的核心。开篇，艾米莉借用租房人洛克乌德先生的视角，通过外貌神态动作等描写，描摹出一个缄默、阴暗、内心充满猜忌和怀疑的房东形象。“他的黑眼睛缩在眉毛下猜忌地瞅着我。”“他把手指更深地藏在背心袋里，完全是一副不信任我的神气。”寥寥数笔就把男主人公的心理性格特征凸显出来。作者也在希刺克厉夫这个形象中寄予了最多的心血和情感。老恩萧先生对他的宠溺、凯瑟琳对他的爱让他感受到人间的温暖，辛德雷的折磨、埃德加的插足让他产生了恨，复仇的种子在他心里扎下了根。书中用大量笔墨叙述希刺克厉夫的复仇过程，淋漓尽致的表现了他近乎神经质的心理。

在我看来，希刺克厉夫与凯瑟琳的爱是这一切复仇计划产生的前提。他们青梅竹马，一起学习，一起玩，是两个“野孩子”，爱在他们懵懂的心里生根发芽。凯瑟琳对希刺克厉夫的爱是炙热的，毫无保留的，她从不掩饰自己对他的担心、疼爱。但是在婚姻面前，她选择了优秀的埃德加，因为他“漂亮、有钱”而且爱她，和他在一起会“很愉快”，不过凯瑟琳虽然答应了埃德加的求婚，她觉得“在我的灵魂里，而且在我的心里，我感到我是错了！”她明确的知道自己更爱希刺克厉夫，“我对林惇的爱想是树林中的叶子：我完全晓得，在冬天变化树木的时候，时光变化叶子。我对希刺克厉夫的爱恰似下面很久不变的岩

石：虽然看起来它给你的快乐并不多，可是这点愉快却是必需的。”但是“嫁给希刺克厉夫就会降低我的身份，所以他永远也不会知道我多么爱他；那并不是因为他漂亮，而是因为他比我更像我自己。不论我们的灵魂是什么做成的，他的和我的是一模一样的。”相对于这样大胆显露的表白，希刺克厉夫对爱的表露是含蓄的，他是缄默的、阴沉的、不善表达的。听到嫁给自己会降低身份的话后，他愤而出走。三年后衣锦还乡，想尽办法折磨辛德雷，骗走伊莎贝尔、夺取林惇家的财产，报复埃德加，为了他自己，更是为了他最深爱的凯瑟琳。

因为有深沉的爱和疯狂的复仇，整书都沉浸在一种阴森恐怖紧张的气氛中，令人毛骨悚然，却不乏女作家的浪漫。希刺克厉夫的一生就是爱、恨、报复，到书的最后，哈里顿与小凯瑟琳相爱，希刺克厉夫千方百计的阻挠，但是，他在小凯瑟琳的眼神中看到了凯瑟琳的影子，内心受到了极大的震动。正是希刺克厉夫爱恨情仇后人性的复苏，是书本精神上的升华。最后希刺克厉夫在对凯瑟琳的极度想念之中死去。那一对年轻人相爱后，小凯瑟琳教哈里顿认字和优雅的举止，两个人眼中露出的爱意让我们看到了一丝希望。

这虽是两家人两代的悲剧，暴躁、疯狂甚至神经质的恩萧家、温文尔雅的林惇家，还有完全被复仇心理所控制的希刺克厉夫之间的爱恨情仇，最终被哈里顿与小凯瑟琳的爱情所化解。希刺克厉夫与凯瑟琳的反抗精神与人道主义精神始终是作者想要表现的，这些精神在时代中大放光彩。结尾一句发人深省，“在那温和的天空下面，我在这三块墓碑前留连！望着飞蛾在石南丛和兰铃花中扑飞，听着柔风在草间吹动，我纳闷有谁能想象得出在那平静的土地下面的长眠者竟会有并不平静的睡眠。”

第二篇：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!

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