【正文】 oke into Mrs. Linton, the lady of Thrushcross Grange, and the wife of a stranger: an exile, and outcast, thenceforth, from what had been my world…I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free…and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them!(Emily Bronte 115). Catherine rejects her status as Mrs. Linton, which is symbolically indicated in her disowning her own reflection in the mirror of the room. When Nell tells Catherine it is herself, she is frightened to acknowledge the fact that she has lost her original nature. To cast off her new self as Mrs. Linton and retrieve her original self, her only way out is to cast off her the confinement of her body and transcend to the herworld, since death in Emily Bronte’s eyes is “an obliterating force, effacing identities, sorrows, etc. and as a unifying juncture with the universe”(Gerin 254). 4. Rehabilitation through Returning to Nature Heathcliff’s and Catherine’s Eventual Return to Nature Catherine realizes that she cannot forfeit her own nature as soon as Heathcliff leaves her. The return of Heatchcliff reignites her hope of owning both Heathcliff and Edgar. However, the reality does not allow her such luxury. So the only way to retrieve her original nature is to die and return to the chest of nature. In the fatal delirium, Catherine begs Nelly to open the windows so that she can breathe the smell of nature because her reminisce of her past and of the wild nature in the moors cannot satisfy her. After being turned down, 14 Catherine rushes to the window and tries to throw herself out of the confinement of the house. Gilbert suggests that finally Catherine’s burial an a green slope in a corner of the churchyard, instead of besides her relatives or those of her husband, is suggestive of a return to the moors, to which she was so attached, and of which she was so much a creature.(61) Yet Catherine does not really retrieve her own self immediately after death. So her ghost haunts her home Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff for twenty years, just as she tells Heathcliff, “I’ll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won’t rest till you are with me. I never will” (Emily Bronte 130). Catherine’s ghost’s haunting the Heights indicates that Heathcliff can not fet his love and is inplete with his love and original nature lost. Love is the fountain of his life and is the only spiritual prod for him in the world. After Catherine dies, Heathcliff lives an empty life and he confesses to Nelly, “With my hard constitution and temperate mode of living, and occupation, I ought to, and probably shall remain above ground, till there is scarcely a black hair on my headAnd yet I cannot continue in this condition!” (Emily Bronte 296) With the death of Heathcliff, Catherine and Heathcliff actually find their lost self in each other and in nature. So the ghosts of。 關(guān)鍵詞： 《呼嘯山莊》 ； 生態(tài)批評(píng) ； 自然與文明 ；回歸自然和回歸自我 ；社會(huì)生態(tài)和 精神生態(tài) VI Abstract Emily Bronte was a brilliant writer in Victorian Period. Her work, Wuthering Heights, is generally considered a masterpiece that stands outside the mainstream of Victorian Literature. As time passed by, her novel Wuthering Heights, has gained more and more attention. Scholars study it from different views. However, few critics have done from the perspective of Ecocriticism. My thesis tries to apply ecocriticism to analyze the relationship between nature and culture, with elaboration on how their conflicts lead to the loss of selves and how their balance helps bring back the harmony and the modern revelation embodied in this novel. Since its debut, ecocriticism is popular with critics because it concerns much about reality. According to ecocritical integrity, this thesis holds that in spite of conflict and struggle, nature and civilization can arrive at the harmony through conflicting development, which forcefully attacks the idea maintained by ecological pessimists that nature and civilization could never coexist harmoniously. That is to say, the novel reflects the idea of returning to nature and integrating with nature, and keeping a harmonious relationship between man and nature. Otherwise, ecologists hold that man should have a sound mind in order to lead a wellbalanced life. Meanwhile, the upsetting of spiritual balance will lead to the unbalancing of the whole ecology, which has the enlightening and profound significance for constructing a harmonious society. Key Words: Wuthering Heights。 生態(tài)批評(píng) 自誕生以來(lái) 因其強(qiáng)烈的現(xiàn)實(shí)性而大受追捧。 and the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the earth on the top of Wuthering Heights。 returning to nature。 一百多年來(lái)，學(xué)術(shù)界對(duì)《呼嘯 山莊》從 不同角度進(jìn)行過(guò)研究。 it “alludes to a process of selfanization that generate systems and anisms, all of which are within the constraints of and constitute ponents of larger systems that again are wild, such as a major ecosystem”(Laurence Coupe 127). Ecocritics stand by the concern that wilderness is the essence of nature, and is very essential to man, especially to his spirit. Description of the Wilderness that Reflects the Confliction between Nature and Culture A symbolic image means concrete representation, as in art, literature, that is expressive or evocative of something else, a personification of something specified. In this novel Wuthering Heights, nature bees one of the indispensable elements in symbolismsymbolic image. With regard to the power of nature, it “plays a much larger part in Emily Bronte’s book than it does in most novelists.” “Emily often uses symbolism to express the enormous serene passion instead of the simple words and actions since they fail to powerfully convey it. One of Emily’s writing craft is that nature images function as symbols to show the characters’ psych