第一篇：呼嘯山莊書評

The book review of Wuthering Heights

The book ‘Wuthering Heights’ ranks as one of the world greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction I have read it when I was a middle school student.The whole story was fascinating and when I read it, I was totally absorbed in it.I still remembered that when I read it in the toilet of my home at night, I was often scared by the story.Last year, when I was a freshman in the college, I read its English original edition.Wuthering Heights took me a month to finish it.It’s really a hard work.Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s only novel and is a tragic love story.It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell Once Published.Wuthering Heights takes place during the late 1700’s and early 1800’s in a small English town.The novel begins with a narrative told by Mr.Lockwood, a tenant of the elderly Heathcliff.As the story progresses, however, he comes into contact with a long-time servant of Heathcliff’s, Ellen Dean, who explains the troubling events that took place many years ago at Wuthering Heights.Throughout the novel, Mr.Lockwood discovers the past love between a mysterious Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff that began after the girl’s father brought him as a boy to love with the family.The love between Catherine and Heathcliff, however, endures great suffering, and the two are eventually torn away from one another.The tragic story, filled with passion and suffering, continues throughout two generations, as told by the old servant woman, many years after the events began.Wuthering Heights was not well received by the reading public, many people condemned it was sordid, vulgar, 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.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.However, it is a swirling tale of largely unlikable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness.The name of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors on which the story centre.The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both themselves and many people around them.It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant.And it possesses grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.After reading Wuthering Heights, I was shocked by his love and the hatred between Catherine and Heathcliff.Wuthering Heights gives me a cold, withering, and lonely feeling.In some means, I am afraid of this book.In fact, there is no such a character I really like in Wuthering Heights, every character seems teemed with agony and animosity, especially Heathcliff.He impressed me deeply.The novel really centers on Heathcliff, perhaps the most fascinating hero-villain in English fiction.A true figure of the romantic age, Heathcliff is consumed with a demonic passion which destroys all less vigorous life around him until he himself is destroyed by it.Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, and then he tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw.In the novel, it says that Mr.Earnshaw treats Heathcliff even better than his own son, Hindley Earnshaw.It’s quite amazing that in spite of Earnshaw’s nice treatment, Heathcliff has no gratitude at all.What’s worse, he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman.He revenges Hindley and Catherine, even their children.He is the avenger who dominates the whole story by using his vengeful machinations.He is so cruel、wild and rude.His malevolence proves so great and long lasting.As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella—his wife is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.Finally, he died lonely.I think he is really a pitiful guy.He doesn’t know what love is and don’t know how to love people.He loves Catherine, but finally Catherine died of his resentment.He wants to revenge the people who hurt him.However, when he is torturing others, he is also giving himself a suffering.Catherine, who is the heroine in the book, is just like Heathcliff, doesn’t know how to love at all.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 Catherin, Isabella Linton 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 meretool in his quest for revenge on the Linton family.Edgar Linton is almost the ideal gentleman.However, He sees his wife obviously in love with another man but unable to do anything to rectify the situation.Heathcliff, who gains power over his wife, sister , and daughter.He is also tragic character.The whole story make people’s mood heavy.Fortunately, the end is happy.Wuthering Heights is not a pretty love story.It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant.Anyway, Wuthering Heights gave me a torment, you can’t see any warm scene in the book, all you see is the fierce wind howled, and wild moor.However, at the end, the combination between Hareton and Cathy seems a hopeful light in the darkness.From the book, I know that the human kindness is not diminished.As we know, the wind can break off a tree that doesn’t mean it can break off the whole forest.Even though the hatred destroyed Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar and Elizabeth’s happiness, that doesn’t mean Cathy and Hareton’s happiness.All the people in the world are

trying to find a perfect companion.In my opinion, human kindness, understanding, tolerance and respect can bring everyone a happy family.

第二篇：呼嘯山莊書評

勃朗特這兩姐妹的作品截然不同，無可否認，在看第一遍的時候，《簡愛》是我更喜歡的作品，她塑造了一個勇敢，堅強，充滿正能量的女性形象，讀完后感覺是清新，溫情，充滿力量。而《呼嘯山莊》的魅力在于雖然他是寒冷陰郁，扭曲變態，卻能讓人經久不忘，時時回想?？赡苁且驗椴焕斫?，所以會反復回想一個問題，到底是什么樣的恨能夠有如此大的魔力，能支撐一個人歷經艱難困苦變得強大，并且一直堅定信念回到這片滿載著痛苦的土地上開始他的復仇計劃。

一直以來都執拗的認為，愛是善良溫和的，恨則相反，是冰冷惡意的。恨比愛難，因為愛和恨會隨著時間的流逝而消磨殆盡，最終恢復平靜。而恨消逝的速度會比愛快很多。直到看到這一段——“在凱瑟琳死后，克里夫用頭猛撞大樹，絕望的自語：“沒有了生命，我如何活下去?失去了靈魂，我如何活下去啊?”這時候回過頭來想想，可不可以解釋為，當一個人愛一個人愛到了極致，把這個人當做唯一的精神寄托，當恨已經變成了他的日常生活習慣，就像每天吃飯睡覺一樣，他一切的變態舉措就變得情有可原了。最后，在他用恨折磨完了所有人，那一刻他突然覺得空虛，生無可戀，他沒有了恨，沒有了人生目標，也就失去了活在這個世界上的意義，最終，他依然還是一個窮的只剩下錢的可憐蟲。所以他選擇了死亡，讓愛與恨都長埋于蒼涼蕭瑟的呼嘯山莊。直到這一刻，他才終于收獲了安詳。

看看我們當下，可能不只是我，大多數人都很難理解書中男主的行徑，說得好聽點是見過太多世面，沒有那么多青梅竹馬，一眼萬年，所以不會有那么極致的愛，自然也產生不了這么極致的恨。或許從這個角度來說，能被人恨一輩子，是一種更高級的幸福吧。

第三篇：呼嘯山莊書評（精選）

Novel Review:Wuthering Heights

Love are not always the process of welfare,people who are in love with each other are not treated well.Emily Bronte,one of the greatest novelists in England at that time ,indited a great masterpiece Wuthering Heights,which is a typical gothic novel.Wuthering Heights is a story of love and revenge;It is told in the form of an extended flashback.The story takes palce in the early 1800s in Northern England.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, regarded him as the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she.But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soul mate, 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 explores the philosophy of humanity.The characters in the novel are full of boldness, wildness and passion which is the human nature and instinct that free from the restrict of social civilization.In this novel, passion is the key to bring the readers into the story, it does not matter of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, it’s a real existence for us to experience and think.Wuthering Heights is a story of love, but it is different with other love story.During the whole novel, the female leading role--Catherine rarely use “love” to describe the relationship between her and the male leading role--Heathcliff.But In that night she decided personally the tragic fate of her and Heathcliff, she said ‘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 was annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it……I am Heathcliff!He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I is always a pleasure to me, but as my own being.’ This is the real soul of Catherine, she love Heathcliff, but she can’t marry with him because of her selfish and the pretentious feature.This is the paradox of love which leads to the tragic end for Catherine and Heathcliff.Wuthering Heights is a story of revenge.After knowing the decision what Catherine made, Heathcliff left her, left Wuthering Heights.But he came back after several years, and retaliated Catherine and all the people who had jeered and abused him before.When Catherine was going to die, he was extremely cruel and did not give her tenderness and consolation, but said to her‘you teach me how cruel you’ve been-cruel and false.The end of the novel was that Heathcliff committed suicide, his death is a die for their love, and express his undyong love for Catherine.Before he died, he gave up the revenge of the next generation.This reflects that he has a good nature, but because of the cruel reality he loses his nature.The recovery of humanity is a spiritual sublimation and reflects the humanitarian ideals.Wuthering Heights 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

第四篇：呼嘯山莊英文書評

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights told a complicated love story among Catherine ,Heathcliff and Edgar.And of course they three were suffered from this a lot until their death.After reading this novel, I was shocked badly by the emotions of these characters through which our writer expressed a plenty of thoughts.Now I want to pick out two points of them to give voice to my own opinion.Firstly, why the Gypsies like Heathcliff were looked down upon by the other people.Secondly I would like to talk the selfishness of the love between Catherine and Heathcliff.When it comes to Gypsies, it will make us think of freedom, passion and magic ,in other words , it seems that the Gypsies possess the ability of reading the other people's minds.However, it is also the nation always coursed and insulted by the others.The reason for that was the Gypsies have been keeping migrating form their appearance.Even nowadays nobody can explain why they must do such things, which also made them surrounded by a mysterious air.Though the Gypsies is an independent nation,they have no motherland and many basic human rights.Just like Heathcliff in this novel who always been laughed at by the so called “superior ” people despite of his brightness and gentle looking.I maintained that the sense of shame was a most cause of his contortion and vengeance.Because of this self-abasement, Heathcliff did not dare to win the love of Catherine.Now let's shift our attention to the selfishness of the love between Heathcliff and Catherine.As a noble Miss ,Catherine thought she and Heathcliff were not well-matched for he was a poor and inferior farm boy thought they loved each other from childhood.One of the unbelievable reason gave by Catherine for her marriage with Edgar was she wanted to help Heathcliff by using her husband's money.And the other one was she could be the most important lady miles around by marrying Edgar.It was very clear that this kind of selfishness was the radical reason for their tragic endings.So was Heathcliff.He owed his failed marriage to Edgar and the others who ever turned up their noises at him.He cheated Isabella,sister of Edgar, and forced his son to marry Cathy ,daughter of Catherine and Edgar, in order to get Edgar's inheritance.I thought he never loved anyone except himself and Catherine.Maybe death was really a liberation for him to get himself out from the guilt and sorrows hidden in bottom of his heart.Luckily, after his death, Hareton and Cathy fell in love with each other and would live a happy life.Love is about giving not getting and Selfishness is what will ruin it.There was no doubt that Wuthering Heights was a thorough tragedy if we read it from this point.

第五篇：英文書評呼嘯山莊

Analysis about catherine’s tragedy in life

Abstact:

In this paper, by analyzingthe four stages of the life road of the heroine Catherine in Wuthering heights and how she made the corresponding process of selection , we were to explore her mental breakdown , the inevitability of self-destruction and contemporary women's enlightenment whichshe gave us from her death: a good education, the right love, perfect character is indispensable conditions ofhappy life.