【正文】 this brings the leaving of Heathcliff. By marrying Edgar, Catherine betrays herself as well as Heathcliff. SelfconsciousnessThe leaving of Heathcliff really brings to Catherine deep sorrow and a serious illness. After her recovering(maybe she isn’t recovering for her true self dies with the Heathcliff‘s leaving), she realizes that, she, as an adult, as the mistress of Thrushcross Grange or as master of both the Grande and the Heights, never again experiences the freedom of spirit and the passionate unity she knew as a child.“The greatest punishment we could invent for her’’, says Nelly of Catherine,‘‘was to keep her separate from him(Heathcliff)”.. Catherine’s most famous declaration of her feelings is an endeavor not so much to convey the strength as to define the nature of her love, and so to win a recognition from Nelly(and, in a sense, from the reader) of its vague:‘‘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 seen 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 souse of little visible delight, but necessary.’’4 It doesn’t matter that Catherine goes on to confess that Linton is merely temporary‘‘like the foliage in the woods’’ or that by marrying Edgar, she hopes she‘‘can aid Heathcliff to rise’’. She betrays Heathcliff and marries Edgar Linton, kidding her that she can keep them. But she is wrong. This is clearly proved by the Heathcliff’s return, her exerting her power over two men who decline to accept the situation docilely. There is a certain contrast in the behavior of the two men. There is a moment when Edgar forces the issue in the classic terms:“Will you give up Heathcliff hereafter, or will you give up me? It is impossible for you to be my friend and his at the same time。 and I absolutely require to knowing which you choose”5.Choosing Healthcliff or Edgar, for Catherine, seems to choose her childhoodtrue self, or adult. Struggling between her childhood and adult, she now tells her of the‘‘very, very bitter misery’’. She has endured much. Her peace in marriage has been one of forgetting. She has denied her first and truest nature and bees“Mrs. Linton, the lady of Thrushcross Grange and the wife of a stranger。 an exile, and outcast’’. She realizes that to be with Heathcliff is to remember her lost independence and freedom and what Thomas Vogler calls‘‘the unselfconscious intensity of childlike emotions’’. That is why Catherinethe lady of Thrushcross Grange and the wife of Linton, wishes to be a girl again,‘‘half savage, and hardy, and free, and imagines in her fevered state this is so. The whole last seven years of my life grew a blank! I didn’t recall that they had been at all. I was a child who ran wild and free and hardy over the moors”.Meanwhile, we can find out that liberty and freedom are essentials for Emily Bronte as they are for her heroine Catherine。 and when freedom is ideal, imprisonment and restriction are the greatest terror, the greatest deprivation. This explains the recurring imagery of freedom threatened and lost in Emily Bronte’s writingthe‘‘fetters’’,‘‘chains’’, and‘‘dungeon bars’’ in her poetry. The moral body, Catherine’s‘‘shattered prison’’, is itself a form of bondage that separates her from the world of nature and unhampered spirit.‘‘I am tired, tired of being enclosed here. I am wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there。 not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart。 but really with it’’6. Even the enclosing wall of the churchyard is seen as a barrier to resist, so that Catherine, at her request, is buried’‘neither in the chapel, under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations’’ but‘‘on a green slope, in a corner of the Kirk yard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor’’. Selfdestruction. Critics concur that, by marrying Edgar, Catherine betrays herself as well as Heathcliff, which creates an emotion unrest that prevents her from finding contentment as Edgar’s wife. When Catherine and Heathcliff attempt to resume their friendship after wedding, Edgar’s jealous response leads to a violent confrontation between the two men. This confrontation sends Catherine into a delirious rage, which is followed by a severe illness and eventually death.. What follows for Catherine after Heathcliff’s departure is illness and resignation. In the period of her convalescence, Mrs. Linton invites her to the Grange.‘‘But the poor dame had reason to repent of her kindness’’, for Catherine’s second stay at the Grange brings death to her. Catherine marries, enters the drowsy seclusion of Thrushcross Grange and so bees imprisoned.And from the moment of Heathcliff’s reappearance Catherine’s attempt to reconcile herself to Thrushcross Grange are doomed. In their relationship now there is no tenderness, they trample on each other’s nerves, madl