【正文】 erates her tragic love. She has notions of superiority and selfimportance that can be justified only in terms of her exceptionally passionate nature and her extraordinary bond to her Heathcliff. Catherine’s immature and narrow vision cannot imagine that she is not the central concern in everybody else’s life. It is almost an epiphany when she says to Nelly,“was relentless in worrying him…about ruling his children rigidly,” and begins to oppress his son, Hindley, and his daughter, Catherine. When Earnshaw dies, Hindleywho by the patriarchal laws of primogeniture bees heir and head of the housejoins Joseph in the oppression of Catherine and Heathcliff by insisting on their separation. They rebel to scamper on the moors, until they reach Thrushcross Grange and the Linton’s watchdog bites Catherine?！皐ind sounding in the firs by the lattice,” before Hindley had ordered her separation from Heathcliff and before she had bee“I hate” but“…. Things irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here, I’m wearing to escape into the glorious world, and to be not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart, but really with it and in it”. What Emily here suggests for a woman in the Victorian age, is her ultimate fateeither to live without a soul, or to die reunited with her true self, her personal dignity after her death. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte gives us a channel to review the hardship of Victorian women in pursuit of love and marriage.Death is a matter of little importance in Wuthering Heights because the issues the novel are concerned with are greater than the individual life and death. The death of Catherine is indeed a kind of triumph because ultimately she faces death honestly, keeps faith. But there is no suggestion that death itself is a triumph: on the contrary it is life that asserts itself, continues, and blossoms again.By describing the tragic love of Catherine, Emily Bronte gives us some inspirations: for women in a patriarchal society and in the 19th century capitalist society, the key to winning real love and happy marriage is independent personality, freedom and equality. That is to say, keeping one’s true self is the only way to get true love and happy marriage. These inspirations still play an increasing important role on affecting the contemporary women who sometimes cannot resist the lures from the plicated society in their process of getting true love and happy marriages.。 she lives in the world and strives to change it, sometimes successfully, always painfully, with almost infinite difficulty and error. As a mon Victorian woman, Catherine’s tragic love let us realize that independent personality, freedom and equality which in one word means keeping one’s true self are the key to winning true love and happy marriages.The unending struggle, of which the struggle to advance from class society to the higher humanity of a classes world is but an episode, is conveyed to us in Wuthering Heights precisely because the novel is conceived in actual, concrete, particular terms, because the quality of oppression revealed in the novel is not abstract but concrete, not vague but particular. And that is why Emily Bronte’s novel is at the same time a statement about the life she knew, the life of Victorian England, and a statement about life as such. Virginia Wolff, writing about it, said: That gigantic ambition is to be felt throughout the novel, a struggle half thwarted but of superb conviction, to say something through the mouths of characters which is not merely“degrade” her. On overhearing her words, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights with a broken heart.The childhood paradise is shattered by their separation and their subsequent fall into conventional gender roles. Despite these transformations, however, both Catherine and Heathcliff long for a return to their original androgynous relationship. Catherine falls in with“I am Heathcliff!” He seems to be only a kind of narcissistic double Social reasonsThe society of British in the nineteenthcentury is an era when the patriarchy is in a dominant place. Under this patriarchy, the man is the center and the representative of the family, and the woman’s existence is not integrated. The part, which can most represent a woman’s selftrue self, is swallowed by it. Catherine, representing the minority of the Victorian women, unlike many other ones who accept that status, refuses to accept their statuses as separated ones under the patriarchy. She doesn’t hesitate to die to attain her true self.“…and remind Edgar of my passionate temper verging, when kindled, on frenzy.” Certainly, Catherine’s last performance is magnificent, if unsuccessful, for“Oh, that’s not what I intendedthat’s not what I mean! I shouldn’t be Mrs. Linton were such a price demanded! He’ll be as much to me as he has been all his lifetime. Edgar must shake off his antipathy and tolerance him, at least. He will when he learns my true feelings….”It is obvious that Catherine is entering marriage with the stubborn adolescent sensibility that she can have her cake and eat it, too. Of course, this has been her spoiled way of looking at