呼啸山庄--阅读口语展示.ppt

Heathcliff Catherines love and the anti-hero of the story. The book essentially follows his story from first appearance at Wuthering Heights to his death there. Edgar Linton Catherines husband. His breeding and wealth attracted Catherine though Heathcliff was her true love. He is a spoiled cowardly man although tender and loving to Catherine and his daughter. He is a contrast to Heathcliff both physically and spiritually. * Wuthering Heights --Emily Bront? --made by Tang Yuan（Class 1241） （a story of love and revenge） Author： Emily Bronte (1818-48), the second of the 3 Bronte sisters, is regarded as the greatest woman poet in English literature. However she is better known as the author of Wuthering Heights, her only novel. She remained a spinster throughout her life. When Wuthering Heights was published it was taken as a Gothic or horror novel. But since the 20th century it has been highly estimated to be equal to Jane Eyre, her sister Charlottes masterpiece. Emily had an unusual character, extremely unsocial and reserved, with few friends outside her family. She preferred the company of animals to people and rarely travelled, forever yearning for the freedom of Haworth and the moors. In appearance, she was lithesome and graceful, the tallest of the Bront? children ， but ate sparingly and would starve herself when unhappy or unable to get her own way. As her literary works suggest, she was highly intelligent, teaching herself German while working in the kitchen and playing the piano well enough to teach it in Brussels. Her stubbornness lasted to the end where she refused to see a doctor or rest while she was dying of tuberculosis. Wuthering Heights is a story of love and revenge. It is the typical gothic novel. The story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs. Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw family, who had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the origi