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浅析《呼啸山庄》主要人物的创作模型 |
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时间：2009-8-8 16:56:54 来源：不详
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abyss where I groveled.” [26] She considers her whole life—the seven years under oppressed patriarchal society as a blank and she loses her freedom. Though Catherine dies, but what she remains to the reader is admiration and veneration. One shows admiration and veneration to her because her willful nature sounds stranger than ever. She dares to love whom she loves and she dares to seek for freedom that she yearns for. Like Catherine, Emily Brontë has the same rebellious personality and indomitable spirit. Her poem shows her these qualities:
“No coward soul is mine,
No tremble in the world’s storm-troubled sphere;
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shine equal, arming me from fear.”[27]
“Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.” [28] Her sister Charlotte Brontë uses this word to describe her. Her strong will and acting of her own way would never shrinks from being opposed and difficulties. She is favor of the heathers on the moors and venerates the precipice. The heathers and cliffs are the symbols of her real personality. Mrs. Caskell writes another occasion in Life of Charlotte Brontë: “Emily was bit by the wild dog which she took in. Realizing that she may suffer from the insidious danger of hydrophobia, she ran to the kitchen, using the heated soldering iron to burn the wound.” [29]
2.3 Tragedy destiny
The weak side of their characters brings about the tragedy destiny. At Victorian times, marriage is well-matched in social and economic status. Catherine cannot get rid of the old traditional trammels, though she loves Heathcliff deeply. She is seduced by the refined and tranquil Thrushcross Grange. Her visit to the Grange preludes the tragedy of their love. Looking through the window of the Grange, Catherine sees a world completely different from the bleak and deckling Heights. It is an attractive place, possessing everything that Heathcliff doesn’t have—social position, wealth and comfortable life. She decides to marry Edgar Linton, because she wants “to be the greatest woman of the neighborhood.’’ [30] In fact, choosing Edgar, she is deliberately false to her own world, just as what Heathcliff comments: an oak is planted in a flowerpot. So when Heathcliff returns, she is eager to feel the value of her existence in him. She tries to reconcile her feeling with what Linton represents, but the two sides can’t be reconciled at all. She can’t bear such suffering, falls in ill and never recovers.
Catherine dies at the birth of her daughter Cathy and Emily Brontë, the creator of Catherine, dies at the age of thirty. Emily Brontë is born an introverted girl, just as Charlotte Brontë says: “My sister (Emily) was born unsociable, and the environment made her tend to be desolate and aloof. She almost stayed at home all day long unless she went to the church or walked on the moors.” [31] Meanwhile, she suffers from the death of her aunt and brother, and she herself is on a bad health condition, all of which leave the dark side of her heart and bring her tragedy fate as Catherine: dies in her youthful years.
In a word, Catherine is a vivid and lifelike Emily. Catherine’s marriage reflects that Emily’s inner world: she can’t avoid the tragedy of losing freedom. The grief that Catherine feels after she becomes Mrs. Linton is just like Emily’s grief of losing freedom. Emily puts her true self into Catherine, to whom she devotes all her vehement passions, fanatical love and unyielding rebellion. It may say Catherine is Emily’s true self and the external image of her mental sense.
3. Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Medea in Greek myth Medea
Another important character is Heathcliff. What kind of person is Heathcliff? We can see the comments that other characters put on him.
Isabella writes to Nelly, “Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? … a tiger or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.” [32]
Nelly says he is “rough as a saw edge, and hard as whinstone!” [33]
Edgar tells little Cathy: “Heathcliff is a most diabolical man, delighting to wrong and ruin those he hates, if they give him the slightest opportunity.” [34]
Even Catherine says: “What is Heathcliff—an unreclaimed creature, without refinement—without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.” [35]
He falls deep in love with Catherine yet his hatred is beyond description. He would dig the grave and embrace Catherine’s body in order that his soul can join with hers. His revenge almost destroys two families. “He is a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.” [36]
As a country girl, Emily Brontë has no complicated life experiences. She never falls in love with someone nor is loved by somebody. She spends all her life in Yorkshire and doesn’t have the chance to witness the life in industrial society. She seems a hermit, holding herself aloof from 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] 下一页
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