呼啸山庄毕业论文.doc

本 科 毕 业 论 文 A study of Wuthering Heights from the Relationship between Nature and Material Civilization 从自然与物质文明的关系看《呼啸山庄》 学 院： 外国语学院 专业班级： 英语 084班 学生姓名： 沈 思 新 学 号： 520831230 指导教师： 杨秋红（讲师） 2012 年 6 月 毕业论文外文摘要 A study of Wuthering Heights from the Relationship between Nature and Material Civilization Abstract: Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece of Emily Bronte，a British female writer in the 19th century . This story is acclaimed as ‘the most extraordinary novel ’in the history of British literature. With the love between Heathcliff and Catherine as its main leading trace ,with the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the decadent social morality brought by the prosperously developed economy in the Victoria period as its social background ,this story depicts the struggle between the material society and the nature of love. Based on the influence exerted by Emily‘s passion for wasteland and her nature for freedom on the novel, the writing order of this thesis is that of “possessing nature, losing nature, vengeance from nature and returning to nature”. This thesis consists of three parts including the introduction, the main body and the conclusion. The introduction is a brief introduction to Emily’s peculiar life and its influence on the creating of Wuthering Heights as well as the main idea of the thesis “to return to the nature after betray to the society”. The main body of this thesis includes four aspects. The first aspect is to discuss the pure love between Heathcliff and Catherine which is based on common nature. The second aspect is to analyze the love tragedy caused by Catherine’s betraying her nature and pursuing material civilization. The third aspect is to discuss Heathcliff’s revenge exhibiting the distorted humanity caused by Catherine’s betrayal. The fourth aspect is to explore the return to nature as a remedy for the irrational desire for mat