篇一：呼啸山庄 wuthering heights
Book Review of Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is written by one of the finest writers of the nineteenth century—Emily Bronte and is regarded as one of the most popular in English literature. However, it was not well received by the public when first published. Victorian readers regarded the book as shocking and inappropriate in its description of the passionate love and cruel revenge. As far as I’m concerned, it is undoubtedly an excellent and representative book of Emily Bronte, who was exceedingly talented and creative. The vivid description of the inner world and complicated feelings of those main characters leaves a very deep impression on me.
It is about the doomed love affair between the fiercely passionate Heathcliff and pitiful Catherine. In the novel, the author put all her efforts on the depiction of the characteristicss of Heathcliff, from which we can see all her indignation, sympathy and ideals. The story begins with Heathcliff’s coming to the Earnshaw family and ends with his death. His vengeful behaviors drive the entire plot. I think there are some specific factors that cause Heathcliff to become a merciless and cruel man. Firstly, at the beginning part of the story, Hindley’s cruelty to Heathcliff has him get a taste of the cruel life and really suffer a lot, and also teaches him how to resist to his sufferings the way he receives those humiliations. As a result, it plants the strong hatred in Heathcliff’s heart. Secondly, Catherine’s betrayal which just arises from her pure love for Edgar drives Heathcliff mad. On the other hand, Heathcliff ‘s overwhelming love for Catherine adds to his hatred to Hindley and Edgar, which finally becomes the driving force of his bloody revenge.
When Heathcliff is treated rather cruelly by Hindley, Catherine remains his faithful partner and true friend. They develop true love in the common resistance to Hindley’s cruelty. However, Catherine finally betrays Heathcliff and marries Edgar Linton, a very graceful and well-bred gentleman. I think her vanity, ignorance and stupidity lead to this tragedy in a way. Her behavior not only hurts Heathcliff greatly, who loves her madly all the time but hurts the next generation to some degree. It turns Heathcliff’s love into matchless hate. Catherine’s death makes Heathcliff’s hate burst
out and turns to be the crazy revenge power. Heathcliff’s purpose has been achieved. Not only does he makes Hindley and Edgar die miserably, inherits the two manors, but he also make their next innocent generation suffer the consequences. Heathcliff is somewhat pitiful in a way, but he is also hateful in that he does not know the meaning of leniency and dedication.
When I read this novel for the first time, I always carried a hope that Heathcliff would become a better man and regret greatly for his wrongdoings. Once I thought that his cruelty is merely an evidence of his frustrated love for Catherine, but it turned out that I was too idealistic, for Heathcliff never tries to change himself, and his malevolence proves to be so strong and long-lasting that it cannot reasonably be explained by his desire for revenge against Hindley, Catherine and Edgar. The characteristics of Heathcliff are really against the traditional ones and are absolutely out of my expectations. This crazy revenge seems to be against the tradition, but it vividly demonstrates his strong spirit of rebelliousness. I think his rebelliousness is exactly a reflection of human nature. It is too natural for a man who has suffered badly to take revenges.
Concerning the woman protagonist Catherine, she is Heathcliff’s never-changed love, but she is not able to overcome her vanity. To some extent, her behaviors are understandable because they are driven by her social ambitions influenced by the prevailing worship for high social status, which initially are awakened during her first stay at Linton’s family and thus compel her to marry Edgar. After their marriage, Catherine finds that her love for Heathcliff is in confliction with her loyalty to her husband and she feels miserable for that. She is torn between her wild passion for Heathcliff and her social ambition. Not able to handle her feelings well, she brings misery to both of the men who truly love her. But what’s done can’t be undone, she can do nothing but suffer the consequences caused by her herself. And the ending of her fate proves this point. Comparing Catherine and Heathcliff, I found that they have some characteristics in common. Just like Heathcliff, she is also rebellious against social conventions and likes to run around the moor. In this novel, I think Catherine represents the wild nature of human beings. Although born in a society where
elegance and conservative spirits are greatly valued, she sticks to her own way of living the kind of live she really desires. From that I can feel that she is really headstrong and has her own disciplines of life. It is not so surprising that she is in high spirits at times and is occasionally cruel and somewhat wayward, because that is who she truly is, the exact figure the author strived to depict in the novel. There is no denying that she has both good points and weaknesses, but it is quite natural. After all, there is no such person as perfect.
This novel tells us a story about passionate love and malicious hate. Its plots are very well-organized and closely related, which are conductive to achieving the impressive and attractive effect. In view of its literary value, nowadays this novel has been studied, analyzed and discussed from many aspects, such as the theme, symbolism, structure and language. As far as I am concerned, the popularity of this novel lies in its unforgettable characters and vivid revelation of human nature. It is well worth reading.
篇二：Wuthering Heights book review(呼啸山庄)
Wuthering Heights book review
A man, a heart, a lifetime for waiting
A person, a city, and his distress
A person, a way, and his loneliness
The affections between Heathchiff and Cathy moves me deeply. They love each other but can’t have a life together, which is a miserable to them. But the power of love is horrific. To own and defend his own affection, Heathchiff tries his best to be a rich gentleman. And owing to the failure of affection, he hates the Edgar and Hindley whole his life. He plans to take a revenge on them. Because of the death of Cathy, a part of Heathchiff dies,too. Cathy is the only person whom Heathchiff ever loves. It takes his lifelong to miss and love her. I admire the love between them in some way.
As i see it, the affection between Heathchiff and Cathy is completely a tragedy. What it all boils down to is hatred. Because of hatred, Hindley prevents them loving each other. And as a result, Cathy marries Edgar whom she does not love and Heathshiff goes away. Also out of hatred, Heathchiff changes greatly. He becomes a bad person, trying to revenge on the Edger. He destroys Cathy’s peaceful life. He marries Hindley’s poor sister but treats her terribly. He even takes revenge on their next generations. How crazy he is! Like a devil, he is full of hatred, causing the sadness of people. But at last, he gives up. He goes to Heaven to find
Cathy. He dies.
I admire Heathchiff’s love to Cathy. But i don’t like his way he love her. If you love a person, you should also love anyone who loves her, not hurt them. I want to say, loving a person deeply is not a fault. But we also learn to give up when we find that they already get happiness. It’s hard for us, but we must do it. That is the true love.
篇三：Book Review of Wuthering Heights呼啸山庄英文读后感
Book Review of Wuthering Heights Wuthering heights is a famous book written by Emily Bronte. Emily is one of the outstanding poets in 19th-century. In 1819, Emily Bronte was born in a poor priest family, her father Pater Rick Brandt is an Irish priest, and her mother gave birth to six children. The Bronte sisters, two daughters and a son. Because of the family backgrounds, Emily was borned to be independent, open-minded, pure, and introverted.
"Wuthering Heights" is one of the works of Emily Bronte, also is one of the masterpieces in the 19th century of British literature. This is a story of love and revenge. "Wuthering Heights" is written by the time span of thirty years, describes a complex emotional relationships of two generations between the Earnshaw family and Linton family.
The whole novel can be divided into four parts. The first phase describes the daily life of Heathcliff and Catherine's childhood, their special affection is formed in this particular environment as well as their revolt against the tyrannical Hindley. The second phase focuses on the Catherine pursuit of the traditional of human love and betrayed Heathcliff and she became the mistress of thrush. She admitted to Donnelly that her love to Linton who is young, handsome man. He loves her as well as her wealth, let her to become the most distinguished woman. Catherine has said: "In my heart and soul, I clearly know I was wrong." Because she also loves Heathcliff. The third stage use a large pen and ink describing
that Heathcliff’s revenge. The last part of novel is the death of Heathcliff, but revealed a new change in the thinking experience - the recovery of humanity when he understood the love between Hareton and Catherine' so we can see a bunch a hope in the tragic love story.
In the novel, all of the author's effort was to create the image of Heathcliff where she pinned all her indignation, compassion and ideals. This orphan has been deprived all of the warmth of human, Hendry’s hit let him tasted the cruel of life, also he knows that his gave up to life can not change the fate of their own humiliation. He chose to resist. Catherine had been his loyal partners. However, Catherine finally betrayed Heathcliff, married Edgar Linton. This is her own choice between the loves. At the end of the book, there are three tombs on the fields, the Linton tomb, the Heathcliff, the middle is Catherine's tomb. Catherine's betrayal of their marriage and miserable fate is the most significant turning point in the book. Catherine’s death is the objective of Heathcliff. His revenge not only let Hendry and Edgar died miserable, but also made the next generation to suffer the bitter pills. This crazy revenge is ueasonable but vividly expressed the hate and love. In the minds of women writers, love and hate is opposition but can be transformed into each other. Therefore, love and hate are opposite to each other, but also with each other uniform.
Undeniable, Heathcliff and Catherine loved each others but they all
lost themselves in the love relationships. Catherine married Linton because of vanity, Heathcliff thought that he had been betrayed and began to crazy avenges. Their love is the most wonderful part of the novel also the source of the tragic.
I want to use one sentence to conclude the whole novel, it could be that everyone made their wrong choice in a wrong time and eventually made the tragic life, everyone regretted in the end of their life and let the next generations to suffer. We all know that the ending can’t be revolted but we’d like to see that everyone has struggled for love and happiness.
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