指导termpaper The emotional changes on Heathcliff in the Wuthering Heights
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1，Abstracts:
Wang Shoubin ,a scholar put in her paper a very vivid and impressive idea: the emotional change of a woman is the most difficult thing to predict. In some levels, i believe it is true. And the bible also said that woman is created for man, for helping man without any debates. So it is proper to say woman is much stronger in emotional world than man. However, man, the continuously rational species sometimes has the long journey of emotional changes in their mind. That is what i would like to make a delicate analysis. Absolutely, the emotional changes on Heathcliff in the Wuthering Heights is just like a long long journey , but most filled with hatred.
Key words: emotional changes analysis Heathcliff
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2，Introduction:
It was Emily Bronte that published the famous novel called Wuthering Heights in 1847. And Heathcliff is the hero in that novel, whose emotional changes compose of a long psychological journey. This story happened on a certain day, in 1771. And on that day, there was a warm old man called Mr.Earnshaw taking an orphan to Wuthering Heights, named him Heathcliff. Hindly, the old Earnshaw's son, was jealous of little Heathcliff. After his father's death ,he became the master of the heights and treated Heathcliff as a slave, instead of a brother. Catherine, Heathcliff ' love, married Edgar Linton because of Heathcliff 's leave. Three years later, Heathcliff became rich and began his revenge plan. So from the summary, we can learn that the main feeling Heathcliff owning is hatred. However, as a matter of fact, hatred is not the only emotion that Heathcliff has. So i think it a necessary job to analyze the emotional changes on him.
3，The Emotional Journey
At the beginning of the story, Heathcliff was taken to the Wuthering Heights. However, in that period, God gave him the unfair fate: the Gypsy identity., which made his inferiority. Owing to his blood, all the people around him did not regard him as a normal people,. They all treated him as a bastard bringing an ugly blood, except the kind-hearted old Earnshaw. So in that dark society, it was Mr.Earnshaw that made him feel love and satisfaction. Not only the family love Heathcliff gained from the old Earnshaw, but also he got the romantic love from Catherine, Hindly's little sister. It was Catherine that companied him go through the happiest childhood, without Hindly.(Hindly was sent to school for education.) However, everything satisfying to Heathcliff went to an end with Mr.Earnshaw's death, with Hindly's coming back. As he could image, Hindly treated him as a slave, commanding Heathcliff doing a lot of servile things, arranging him living in the stable, all of which brought Heathcliff large amount of anger and hared, the previous happiness and satisfaction disappearing in a moment. During the maltreatment, the only thing that supporting Heathcliff was Catherine's love. Nevertheless, his love, Catherine turned down to run away from the Wuthering Heights, which made him feel lots of helplessness. Then, with the rival in love, the gentle Edgar turning up, Heathcliff felt plenty of sense of crisis. In his mind, his love, Catherine was going to leave away due to the status and position., which pushed him to made a decision: running out of the Wuthering Heights. It is obvious that Heathcliff left with his hatred to all the people in that heights and ambition to his future. Three years later, Heathcliff came back with a large fortune and a noble position. However, Catherine married Edgar that made Heathcliff break out all his hatred which was accumulated many years. He began his revenge plan. And in his plan, he gained a great pleasure and satisfaction from making Hindly lose all his fortune and pushing him to death. However, Heathcliff''s revenge plan also let Catherine feel a great hurt in her heart. Eventually, she died of pneumonia when she was pregnant, which made Heathcliff hate 指导termpaperEdger much more than before. So actually speaking, Heathcliff 's feeling to Catherine was the mixture with love, hatred at that time. And another evidence supporting that opinion was that Heathcliff shot himself to death, with plenty of miss and love. So the whole story ended with this kind of tragedy.
So i can use a line to connect through all the Heathcliff 's emotions.
Inferiority.-------happiness, satisfaction, love-------hatred (mixture with love and hatred)-------love
Inferiority just appeared at the beginning of the story. Happiness, satisfaction, love appeared in his childhood, adulthood without Hindley. Hatred appeared after old Earnshaw's death and Hindley's coming back. At the end of the revenge, Heathcliff died with love, no hatred at all.
4，Conclusion:
The emotional changes on Heathcliff in the Wuthering Heights are vividly described. And all of that changes fit the positions where the hero faced, matched Heathcliff 's personality. So all the emotional changes happened on Heathcliff were quite reasonable. I believe it is the detailed emotional description that makes the success of <Wuthering Heights>. If making a contrast with another amazing work <Jane Eyre>, you will find lots of similarities on experiences or sufferings of the two leading characters. Both orphans, both being maltreated, both starving for love and so on. However, they had the really distinctions on psychological changes. Jane Eyre did not express extremely hatred to others and never gave up loving others. Heathcliff owned a large amount of hatred to all the people around except old Earnshaw and Catherine. It is the obvious distinction that lead to the different kinds of endings. And it also gives us general people a warning. What you think will always result in what you do. So tragedy or happiness do always depend on your emotion inside, which makes it much more important to handle your own feelings and mood.
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王寿斌. 《最难捉摸女人心—女性心理探微》 《心理与健康》杂志1997年第六期
The bible
Charlotte Bronte. 指导termpaper 《Jane eyre》 凤凰出版传媒集团译林出版社 2010年出版
