【正文】 life all along。 and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”7‘neither in the chapel, under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations’’ but 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‘‘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:‘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.“a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless’’. The crux of the tensions which both bind Catherine and Heathcliff together and tear them apart can be seen in the episode in which Catherine, having returned to the Heights after her first visit to the Lintons, is anxious to return her new friends’ hostility and quarrels with Heathcliff because he is too dirty to receive her guests.Enchanting with Thrushcross Grange’s wealth and sophistication, Catherine, responding to that deep human necessity, rebels Heathcliff and chooses to marry Edgar Linton, whose refinement and delicate physical beauty stand in stark contrast to the degraded unkempt Heathcliff, whom Catherine describes as“I do not know a novel in which the pain, the ecstasy, the ruthlessness, the obsession of love has been so wonderfully described”1. The heroine, Catherine, is a tragic character in Wuthering Heights. This thesis intends to explore this book’s social significance by analyzing the personal and social reasons of Catherine’s tragic love. That is, for women, the key to winning real love and happy marriage is independent personality, freedom and equality.2. Catherine’s true nature as a childIn the beginning of the novel, Emily Bronte purposely dates the story so close to her and the setting is laid in the North, the bleak, Moorish, wild, characters of which is admirably preserved. The environment of the wilderness in the story reminds us of Haworth moor, in Yorkshire, the child, Catherine, like Emily, grows up in the midst of the Yorkshire moors. We can see the real Catherinea strongminded, domineering girl, who loves nature, the freedom, not constrained by the oppressive forces. During her childhood, she is too vital a person to be limited by the restrictions others impose on her for their own convenience:【標(biāo)題】對呼嘯山莊中凱瑟琳愛情悲劇的分析 【作者】龔 雪 梅 【關(guān)鍵詞】 that is, it recorded more and more surface and mirrored more precisely the dominant attitudes and values of middleclass life and society. This is not the case with Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, which is considered one of the most powerful and original works of Victorian literature. Since its publication, the novel and the author have been discussed heatedly. Both contemporary and modern readings misjudge Wuthering Heights in trying to measure it against standards made by and for the very social orders. Even today’s Marxist and feminist critics, who see the novel in terms of either class struggle or women’s struggle for equality. However, the love between Catherine and Heathcliff is the core of it. Maugham once criticized it:.The girl who five weeks before raced barefoot in the dark from the top of the Heights to the park is now hampered by fashion and airs and seems to have fulfilled Mrs. Lintion’s fearful prediction on seeing her wounded ankle, and she may be lamed for life! When we see her next, she is no longer(maybe she isn’t recovering for her true self dies with the Heathcliff‘‘like the foliage in the woods’’ or that by marrying Edgar, she hopes she‘‘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。 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’you have broken it。 her na?ve belief that she can have both Edgarwho represents culture and security and Heathcliff, who is the embodiment of sexual and natural energy, proves her plete inability to understand reality outside of her own narrow perspective. When Nelly Dean suggests that by marrying Edgar, Catherine will lose Heathcliff, she is incredulous:“in danger of being seriously ill…I want to frighten him…will you do so, my good Nelly? You are aware that I am in no way blamable in this matter.” Catherine often uses Nelly Dean as an instrument for her guile: even her professed love for Heathcliff is strangely qualified by her claim,(He