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uses and she can do no work. She has accustomed to such a style of living: others work for her, produce for her and satisfy her needs. She is attracted by the ―cultural life‖ in the Lintons, and she starts to long for it. Catherine has thrown herself into a dilemma since Edgar Linton proposed her. She is eager for the honorable life in Thorncross Grange, where she can bee a rich and great woman, but she also loves Heathcliff with her soul, just like she said to Nelly My love for Edgar is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I39。m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but neces sary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff(Emily Bronte, 2021) The duality of Catherine39。s character revealed a crisis point with her marriage to Edgar the one event in the novel above all others which determine the futures of the central characters. Catherine39。s marriage to him is a betrayal of her nature. Not only has she broken with her kindred spirit, Heathcliff, but she has physically removed herself from the wildness and freedom from the Heights. Catherine39。s marriage to Edgar and her rejection of Heathcliff is a rejection of herself. This choice made by Catherine favored wealth, civilization and social position over her natural affinity with the untamed, uncivilized world represented by Heathcliff. Catherine‘s dual characters cause her tragedy, which has aroused the readers‘ sympathy. As she lies dying, she says,“ I wish I were girl again, half savage and hardy, and free, and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?‖(Emily Bronte,2021) she regrets her choice but now she has to face it and gives up her life at last. ‘s betrayal When Catherine is a little girl, she is pure and free, she loves Heathcliff without minding his identity, and she falls in love with Heathcliff and bears all the punishment from her brother. But when she encounters Edgar, she realizes that from him she can get more respects and she would be the greatness woman of the neighborhood. She knows that she would never marry Healthcliff. In her heart, she still loves Heathcliff but she is totally absorbed in the new way of life and values as her spirit and nature belong to upperclass. Compared with Heathcliff, Linton is young, handsome, rich and in love with her. The most important is Linton can make her bee the most respected woman. Catherine is a faithful partner of Heathcliff, they develop the true love in mon resistance. However, Catherine finally betrays Heathcliff. Catherine‘s betrayal of Heathcliff is the distortion of her personality and selfbetrayal. The relationship determines the nature of their love. Their demand for love is conveyed in the process of their struggle for individual fulfillment and humanity. Catherine shows her passionate love for Heathliff and inseparability of them. But the nature of love should be explored within a context, because the novel shows love is based on mutual bullion and mutual aspirations. Catherine eventually betrays Heathcliff and bees the mistress of Thrush cross Grange. Seduction by the glamour of the Grange is the beginning of Catherine‘s change and distortion. Because Catherine is kind, she loves Heathcliff by the mercy. Because of her vanity, selfish and arrogant, she had betrayed her love to marry Edgar. Eventually Catherine bees all the fuses of the tragedy. Catherine has been living in the pain of contradiction, her efforts herself to bee an upperclass lady. She chooses to marry Linton, the real gentleman, although she still loves healthcliff. After the marriage, Catherine is still not out of pain, and contradictions until her death. Because her betrayal, a direct result of the tragic misfortune of her life, because her death, Heathcliff makes all the crazy revenge. So Catherine‘s betrayal is the beginning of his own personal hell。 for Heathcliff, Catherine‘s betrayal is the turning point of his life。 For Heathcliff, Catherine‘s betrayal leads him to cruel punishment or treatment to anyone who has relationship with Catherine or anyone he hates. Heathcliff’s own reasons Heathcliff‘s growing environment Young Heathcliff‘s childhood is full of both halfhappiness and halfsadness, and it formats his life experience and social status and distorts his nature at the same time. A homeless gypsy boy named ―Heathcliff‖ was abandoned by his parents after he was born, and this has a huge influence on his unreasonable disposition. Later he was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw. He is treated well by Mr. Earnshaw, and from Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff learns the kindness. The children of the Earnshaw family are the teenaged Hindley and his younger sister, Catherine. Hindley finds himself robbed of his father39。s affections and bees bitterly jealous of Heathcliff. However, Catherine grows much attached to him. After Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley bees master of Wuthering Heights, and forces Heathcliff to bee a servant instead of a member of the family and exterts tyranny on Heathcliff. Despite the abuse of Hindley, Heathcliff still endure and tolerate on the support of Catherine‘s love until they meet the Lintons . The seed of hatred has planted in his heart gradually. So his character is formed in this discrimination and betrayal of Catherine, both kindness and cruelty during his teenage time. Heathcliff‘s extreme personalities Heathcliff is an orphan taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw and reluctantly cared for by the rest of the family. He and Catherine later grow close, and their love bees the central theme of the first volume。 his revenge and its consequences are the main theme of the second volume. So his extreme character is love and hatred. At first, Heathcliff is a pure and kind boy. When Mr. Earnshaw died, Heathcli