The Death of Love— Analyzing the Theme of Wuthering Heights 英语毕业论文.doc

The Death of Love?Analyzing the Theme of Wuthering Heights 1. Introduction Since the modern civilization threw light on the progress of human history, human beings have discovered the splendid love flower and fostered it with life and blood and sung high praise of it enthusiastically. Love has marched on its way into the field of ancient mythology, poetry and legend, achieving a prominent position in the garden of literature and art. Love has become a perpetual literature theme. Emily Bronte, who was born in the little village of Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England, played an important role in the 19th century in the history of England literature. And all of this was derived from her unique novel梂uthering Heights, which was published in a year early before she died and gave a great shock in the English literature of that time. pIn Emilys Wuthering Heights, when the host of Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton, leads his beautiful bride, Catherine, to the Gimmmerton chapel to accomplish his marriage with her, he may feel that he is the happiest man in the world. Like other ordinary people ,he is nearly positive that love is the loftiest happiness of life. However, our authoress, Emily Bronte, is reluctant to be by the traditional concepts to frame her love story. In this novel, Emily breaks away from the traditional love and fuses the love among Heathcliff and Catherine and Linton into the abnormal psychology of the hero who has lost his spiritual balance. From this, Emily leads readers into a world brimming with hatred and love, evil and kindness, weakness and stubbornness, letting readers understand the implication of the extraordinary love-relationship among characters in the novel, offering more aftertastes to readers. With her great passion and startling artistic talent, Emily manifestoes to readers the love beyond the convention, the other kind of love in its existence一its not rosy, sweet, tender or a bless as if a flame is bound to burn the one who is a