2.Catherine Earnshaw and Emily Brontë
The novel written by Emily is portrayed true to Victoria life which she is familiar with, it can be regarded as the real life of her own. “Wuthering Heights probably contains some factor of satisfying a long-cherished wish and imaginary life activities.” [9] Catherine molded by her is extremely the same as herself. Both of they experience the same living conditions which influence the shape of their personalities: stubborn and rebellious and their weak side of personalities brings about the tragic fate.
2.1 Living conditions
Emily and Catherine have shaped the same personality by the influence of living conditions. Emily lives in Haworth, which is a village of small, gray house on the side of a hill in the worth of England. To the west it is the boundless and uninhabited moors, not living plants but heather growing disorderly. Such living environment can be seen in Wuthering Heights. The environment plays an important role in creating the uniqueness of Emily Brontë and Catherine she creates. “She describes life according to the severe land she grows up and the more severe people of this land.”[10] Charlotte Brontë explained it in the book The Republication of Wuthering Heights: “It is imbued with local color. It enriches in wild nature, like the roots of heather. It adapts the nature because Emily Brontë was born and grew up on the moor, and she was nurtured by the moor.”[11] She experiences the bondless swamp and wilderness of Yorkshire and writes them in the imaginaries of her novel, where she grasps the primitive images of the nature with her sharp eyes to create the lifelike, feverish and amazing atmosphere. Undoubtedly, Wuthering Heights features the wilderness and windstorm. “The greatness and profoundness of Emily can only be built up by the cruel, lofty, gloomy and desolate land and sky of Yorkshire.” [12] At the beginning of the novel, Emily Brontë purposefully dates the story at the time so close to her, arranges the setting in the North, where she lives and which she is familiar with. “Wuthering” is a “significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmosphere tumult to which its station is expressed in stormy weather.” [13] Both are the moors, which have the same weather conditions, “The power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.” [14] Such environment of the wilderness in the story reminds us of Harworth moor. The remote and gloomy atmosphere influences Emily Brontë. She is a desolate and lonely girl, always walking on the moors to spend time. Self-abased, introverted and melancholy as she is, she is not good at communicating with others, unwilling to live with others and keeping pretty much to herself. However, Emily Brontë longs for love and she pays more enthusiasm to social movement and is strongly opposed to formal religion. The features of moors shape her a willful, savage and stubborn individuality. She puts all the personalities into Catherine.
Catherine comes from a high-society family, who, as a child, could ride any horse in the stable, and in later years “rides roughshod” over everyone who tries to stand in her way. [15] “Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue alw

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