【正文】 eat. Her starvation shows a woman’s powerlessness. As a weak woman, she cannot win over the powerful society, so she takes to a suicidal action as a way to display her dignity.(her suicide) would kill them.the childhood oneness split asunder by gender distinctions that divide the self and the world into conflicting oppositesis resumed only in deaths, which is a return to their lost origins and to wholeness through immersion in primal nature. Yet, as Catherine and Heathcliff remain ever faithful, Bronte maintains the androgynous ideal in the mind of the reader.5. Social significance of this novelSo behind the tragic love of Catherine, there is a special social content of history. She, as a mon Victorian woman, lives in the concrete social environment of history, will inevitably walk from heights, embodying ownerpeasant institution, to grange, embodying as it does the prettier, more fortable side of bourgeois life. Her tragedy es into being under the special social content“whatever our souls are made of,“that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn’t wish to retaliate.” Rarely if ever is Catherine described as a loving person, one who is willing to give the self freely to another。 she ultimately brings about her own death. She begs Nelly to tell Edgar she is“He will be rich, and I shall be the greatest woman of the neighborhood, and I shall be proud to have such a husband,”8 She tells Nelly Dean. Catherine’s selfish and shortsighted attitude toward marriage is an indicative of her childish sensibilities. It is well to ask why she marries Edgar at all, considering her feelings for Heathcliff?！皌hen what right had you to leave me? What rightanswer mefor the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken you hart not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart?！畉he unselfconscious intensity of childlike emotions’’. That is why Catherinethe lady of Thrushcross Grange and the wife of Linton, wishes to be a girl again, 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 After her recovering“it was beautifula splendid place carpeted with crimson and crimsoncovered chairs and tables and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold….”3During her first visit to Thrushcross Grange, she eats the foods and wears the dress here. The taming of Catherine has began, which will bring her to leave behind her rough girlhood ways and take up manners and clothing that require inhibited motion and artificial posturing“realism”。凱瑟琳‘‘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:“ 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 greatest punishment we could invent for her’’, says Nelly of Catherine,“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?！甪etters’’,‘‘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‘‘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. many times in the novel Bronte portrays Catherine as a selfish, demanding, manipulative child.“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 NellyUnder 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“brain fever”, she images she was a child again at Wuthering Heights, the“I love” o