reading report呼啸山庄读书报告.ppt

The story of Wuthering Heights is concerned with two families and an intruding stranger, and is a morbid love story between Catherine and Heathcliff. Plot Mr. Linton Mr. Earnshaw Isabella Edgar Catherine Heathcliff Hindley Little Catherine (Cathy) Little Linton Hareton Characters Heathcliff：self-abased,selfish, jealous, sensitive, cruel, brutal, immortal love to Catherine Catherine: warm-hearted,tender, inartificial, immortal love to Heathcliff Linton: gentle,coward, timid, immortal love to Catherine Main content This is a story of love and revenge. Master of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Earnshaw, brought back an unidentified child, took his name as Heathcliff. The owner died, Hindley treated Heathcliff as a servant, and give all sorts of persecution to him, but Catherine kept close with him and they fell in love with each other. Later, Catherine was influenced by the outside, and instead, she fell in love with the quiet young Edgar of Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff got away from home in anger, when he returned home after three years, he is in prosperity. Catherine has married Edgar. Heathcliff was crazy about the revenge, taking Hindley’s family wealth through the gambling. Hindley’son Hareton became a slave. Hindley died of drinking. He also deliberately married with Isabella, Edgar’s sister, persecuting ? her. Catherine died in dystocia with heart broken. Ten years later, Heathcliff married Edgar’s daughter, little Catherine ,to his dying son, Linton. Edgar and Linton are dead , Heathcliff eventually occupied the property of Edgar family. Revenge succeed, but he can not survived from dead Catherine’s love and eventually died resulting in unrequited love. Little Catherine and Hareton inherited the small Villa’s industry, then they two eventually fell in love with each other, and moved to Thrushcross Grange. From the social point of view，Heathcliff is a rebel against the bourgeois matrimonial system--- a full human life in a capitalist s