【正文】 e within the hierarchy of late eighteenthand early nineteenthcentury British the top of British society was the royalty, followed by the aristocracy, then by the gentry, and then by the lower classes, who made up the vast majority of the the gentry, or upper middle class, possessed servants and often large estates, they held a nonetheless fragile social social status of aristocrats was a formal and settled matter, because aristocrats had official of the gentry, however, held no titles, and their status was thus subject to man might see himself as a gentleman but find, to his embarrassment, that his neighbors did not share this discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as how much land he owned, how many tenants and servants he had, how he spoke, whether he kept horses and a carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”—gentlemen scorned banking and mercial of class status often crucially inform the characters’ motivations in Wuthering ’s decision to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood” is only the most obvious Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground do not have a carriage, they have less land, and their house, as Lockwood remarks with great puzzlement, resembles that of a “homely, northern farmer” and not that of a shifting nature of social status is demonstrated most strikingly in Heathcliff’s trajectory from homeless waif to young gentlemanbyadoption to mon laborer to gentleman again(although the statusconscious Lockwood remarks that Heathcliff is only a gentleman in “dress and manners”).第二篇：呼嘯山莊英文賞析Wuthering Heights which has long been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature, it has a secure position in the canon of world a shattering presentation of the doomed love between the passionate Catherine and Heathcliff, it remains one of the most haunting love stories in all of Wuthering Heights, Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family and especially Catherine and characters are governed by their emotions, not by reflection or ideals of Heights symbolized a similar the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and heights, through a love tragedy, presented a picture of deformity of the social life and Outlines a kind of humanity twisted by society and all kinds of terrible story ended with Heathcliff’s died for love and his death shows his love to gave up the revenge to the younger generation after he knew that young Catherine and Harleton had fallen in love with each other shows that he was kind in was the cruel reality that twisted his humanity and made him bee brutal and kind of recovery of humanity was sublimation in spirit and it glared a kind of humanitarian ideal of the author and endows the terrible love tragedy some , Heathcliff’s change of “l(fā)ovehaterevengea recovery of humanity” is not only the essence of the novel but also a clue throughout the whole to the clue, the author arranged an unpredictable scene for it was the moor full of clouds, sometimes it was courtyard with a sudden rain and story has always been shrouded in a kind of mysterious and horrible novel is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel told about the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the rest dramatic second half told developing love between young Catherine and contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross most important feature of young Catherine and Harleton’s love story is that it involves growth and in the novel Harleton seems brutal, savage, and illiterate, but over time he bees a loyal friend to young Catherine and learns to and Heathcliff’s love, on the other hand, is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to choosing to marry Edgar, Catherine seeks a more genteel life, but she refuses to adapt to her role as wife, either by sacrificing Heathcliff or embracing and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are Catherine declares, “I am Heathcliff,” while Heathcliff, upon Catherine’s death, said that he cannot live without his “soul,” meaning ’s betrayal and her bitter destiny was the turning point of the whole made Heathcliff change his love to Catherine died, the hate became the motivation of his successfully attained his only he let Edgar and the Linton died in desolation and possessed their property but also let their innocent younger generation experience the kind of crazy revenge clearly showed his unmon and rebellious special spirit of revolt was formed by the special environment and his special ’s love t