【正文】 of what binds them is betrayal of everything, of all that is most valuable in the life. Once a human being is deprived of his most valuable in the lifehis true self, he has no meaning of existence in this world. Death, for Catherine, is the only release.4. The reasons of Catherine’s tragic loveLove tragedy es into being naturally. The author, Emily Bronte, cannot find an effective way to save her heroine, but let her die, wishing she would enjoy her other self after her death. Because Emily Bronte knows clearly that Catherine’s love tragedy rises from many reasons. So the efforts to save her heroine are doomed to be in vain.“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.” Despite Heathcliff’s furious devotion and her husband’s genuine affection, Catherine always feels unloved and undervalued. Even as she is dying, she cries,“Mrs. Linton, the lady of Thrushcross Grange.” Her mind unsettled from“I will kill my self”. This is the pitiful situation. Emily cannot find an effective way to save her heroine, but let her die by which she faces death honestly and keeps faith，wishing she would enjoy her other self after death. Catherine feels desperate in finding her true self, she longs for death to fulfill her dream.(Heathcliff’s) and mine are the same,” Catherine announces that she intends to marry Edgar Linton because to marry Heathcliff would“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:you have broken it。‘‘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。(maybe she isn’t recovering for her true self dies with the Heathcliff 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:“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:‘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. 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 and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”7“…and remind Edgar of my passionate temper verging, when kindled, on frenzy.” Certainly, Catherine’s last performance is magnificent, if unsuccessful, for“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“…. 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 sugges