《英美文学教学资料》heathcliff.pptVIP

Wuthering Heights A riddle: The sphinx of modern literature The author Themes: Human nature: Heathcliff is a combination of fire and ice the conflict of social classes gender issues Human relations, especially man-woman relationship Writing style: Unique in structure Unconventional in narration Narrators Nelly: the housekeeper of Earnshaw family Lockwood: a gentleman from the civilized south of England Isabella: an epistolary narrator Use of Multiple first-person points of view to narrate the story. characters Mr. Earnshaw The Earnshaw family Catherine, Hindley Mr. Linton The Linton family Isabella Edgar Heathcliff An foundling and waif who was brought home by Mr. Earnshaw breaks the balance and peace of the two families Heathcliff grows up with Catherine and Hindley. He and Catherine love each other; Hindley hates Heathcliff and degrades him in every way and hinders the love between Catherine and Heathcliff; One day, Heathcliff overhears part of the speech by Catherine to Nelly that she intends to marry Edgar; Heathcliff runs away, then becomes rich, returns three years later to take revenge; Still loves Catherine, hates the Lintons and Hindley; After the death of Catherine, he hastens his revenge on the people of two houses; reduces Hindley to a drunkard and gambler, wins all his possession. Then takes possession of Thrushcross Grange by marrying Isabella and later by marrying little Cathy to his sickly son Linton. Turns Hareton (son of Hindley), into an illiterate servant in his house 18 years later, begins to see Catherine’s ghost, forgets to revenge and to eat and sleep, starves to death; Young Cathy changes savage Hareton into a rather literate man and the two fall in love with each other and retire to Thrushcross Grange. The spirits of Heathcliff and