【正文】 freedom, her true nature, her singing and playing, and her true self. Against the degradation Catherine and Heathcliff rebel, hurling their pious books into the dogkennel. And in their revolt they discover their deep and passionate need of each other. They recognize in each other their true humanity, their worth and dignity as human beings and their status in the munity. Only through this relationship can either of them feel the vital bond with existence, the sense of belonging, the human necessity for which is expressed in Catherine’s remark“realism”。凱瑟琳社會意義 【指導(dǎo)老師】張 亞 軍 【專業(yè)】英語教育 【正文】1. IntroductionThroughout the nineteenth century, the British novel displayed an increasing degree of‘‘her spirits were always at highwater mark, her tongue always going, singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she wasbut she had the bonniest eye, and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish’’2. And she is essentially joyous, with an expansive sense of life:As a children, Catherine and Heathcliff on their escape peer into the house of Thrushcross Grange through the window that divides them from the Lintons. The life at the Grange is very attractive,“ an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.’’ which betrays her own humanity. Critics concur that the unity of Catherine and Heathcliff is ultimately destroyed by her invasion of Grange manners and Grange opinion. Inevitably Heathcliff and Catherine grow further and further apart. There es the night when Heathcliff overhears Catherine saying,The leaving of Heathcliff really brings to Catherine deep sorrow and a serious illness.“The greatest punishment we could invent for her’’, says Nelly of Catherine,‘‘If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be?！癢ill 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。 an exile, and outcast’’. She realizes that to be with Heathcliff is to remember her lost independence and freedom and what Thomas Vogler calls‘‘fetters’’,‘‘I am tired, tired of being enclosed here. I am wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there?！畂n 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 but, because she believes this herself, she thinks it safe for her to marry Edgar Linton: Heathcliff is within her soul. Therefore nothing can dislodge him. Nonetheless, it is clear from the way they wound one another that each is in continual need of reassurancesomething that occurs only between two separate people. Catherine thinks only of her reassurance of her own feelings. She does not consider Heathcliff’s need for proof of those feelings. She does not believe she needs to behave in accordance with her feelings, and so, blind to the meaning of her action, she marries Edgar. We can know this from what Heathcliff demands of her when she is dying.‘‘You love me’’, cries Heathcliff,‘‘what right had you to leave me?’’ is the cry of outraged passion. Catherine thought that she could slip beneath passions’ net and take the offer of Edgar’s love, but she is destroyed by her defiance. Her own emotional greed is drawn like a noose round Heathcliff’s neck, but she thought he would be satisfied by her own inward assurance that they were one person. Her passion was so real that marriage to her had no reality.She has a distorted view on marriage. For example, Catherine looks at marriage as a means of achieving outward sophistication, as well as an escape from mental and emotional stagnation: Edgar is the man who will define her, who will shape her identity and give her status many times in the novel Bronte portrays Catherine as a selfish, demanding, manipulative child.“…get away! And now I’ll cry myself sick!” and she proceeds to deliver a perfect fit of weeping which softens poor Edgar’s heart. Catherine never outgrows these willful displays of mad emotion, and by feigning a fit to arouse her husband’s concern。“the aspect of death” startles even Nelly her mistress is able to assume. This undisciplined and domineering childthe little girl who wanted her father to bring her a whip from Liverpoolfails to mature at all because she never learns to control her perverse egotism. That in her last breath Catherine looks to Nelly“I have such faith in Linton’s love,” she says,Under that patriarchy or maledefined society, the oppression Catherine and Heathclif suffering at Wuthering Heights is matched at Thrushcross Grange. Mr. Earnshaw es under the influence of Joseph, the puritanical servant who“very dignified” lady to find Heathcliff reduced to the status of a rough, dirty servant. Like Lockwood, Catherine assumes a superficially conventional gender role that locks her into limited forms of behavior and denies her true self. While confessing to Nelly that“brain fever”, she images she was a child again at Wuthering Heights, the“wailing child.” Dramatizing the destructive efforts of the socially divided self and the need for reintegration.Their relationship“I love” or“I will die since no one cares about me,” If I were only sure i