呼啸山庄chaper32-34内容简析
英语师范1202 陈彦君 3121702042
I. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Ware: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000), pp.232-258.
A. Representative Passages
1. The intimacy thus commenced, grew rapidly....and the other loving and desiring to be
esteemed--they contrived in the end to reach it..(241)
2. Conscience had turned his heart to an earthly hell: an absurd termination to my violent
exertions? I get levers and mattocks to demolish the wo houses....I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.(247)
B. Setting
1. Time: From March to September in 1802 2. Location: Wuthering Heights
C. Main Characters
1. Mr. Heathcliff: “grew more and more disinclined to society,”(238), “grew pale,”, “an
expression of mortal hate,”, “savagely,”(244), “black eyes,”, “the devil,”(245), “a reluctance to be always alone,”, “an aggravation of the constant torment I suffer,”, (247)“ quite strong and healthy,”, “his reason,”, “hard constitution..occupations,”, “conscience...to an earthly hell,”(248), “he was pale, and he trembled”, “he breathed as fast as a cat,”(249), “Those deep black eyes! That smile, and ghastly paleness! ”, “a goblin,”(251), “Your cheeks are hollow...loss of sleep,”(254)
2. Mr Lockwood: “unfortunate person,”, “very mean and malignant,”(235), “a respectable
character,”(258)
3. Joseph: “poor man, was perfectly aghast,”, “ solemnly,”(241), “,his quivering lip and
furious eyes,”, “flaysome, graceless quean,”, “wi' her bold een un' her forrard ways,”, “lamented outright,”(243), “shuffled up,”(256)
4. Hareton Earnshaw: “in deep but softened tones”, “a young man, respectably dressed,”,
“handsome features,”(234), “his brown,”(235), “as sullen and silent as possible,”, “stupidity and idleness,”, “persevering sulkiness and indolence,”(237), “morose,”(238), “uncompromising gruffness,”, “ferociously,”(239), “trembled...deserted him,”(240), “was not to be civilized with a wish,”(241), “sternly,”(245), “honest...degradation,”, “his industrym”, “brightening mind... their aspect”, “his senses were alert, and his mental faculties wakened to unwonted activity”(246), “seemed a personification of Heathcliff youth,”(247), “the most wronged...suffered much,”, “a generous heart,”(256)
5. Catherine Linton: “a voice as sweet as a silver bell”(234), “a small white hand”, “light,
shining ringlets,”, “smiling beauty,”,(235) “naughty,”, “ingenuity,”(237), “obdurate perversity,”(240), “was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience,”(241)
D. Episodes
1. Catherine Linton made peace with Hareton Earnshaw.
2. Mr. Heathcliff began to regret his behavior, who was shocked by the friendship between Catherine and Hareton .
3. Heathcliff committed suicide, Catherine and Hareton moved out Wuthering Heights E. Imagery
1. Heathcliff ’s love: what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor...The
entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!(210)
2. The ending of the story: I lingered round them, under that benign sky....and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.