论《怒吼山庄》中的爱(2)

    culture. Because they missed the beautiful time for love ,when humanity arises again.
    Key words:  Humanity   Culture   Love   Revenge 
    Humanity ? Culture ?——Wuthering Heighets’love
    Introduction
    In Wuthering Heights, the topic is love, deduces us a world-shaking undying love. They are not only have the lingering love, but also a deeply ingrained hate between them. Catherine and Heathcliff’s love has both humanity and social culture and which bind with them. The humanity has made their love unchanged and undying, but culture destroys this love, and causes hate, Catherine betrays him. Therefore Heathcliff’s hate is quite incisive and vivid, but still comes back to the love.
    In the novel by Emily Bronte, the two main characters have the natural style and primitive nature—— naivete, truculence, frankness, firmness, a flush of sentiment, behavior is crazy. They love very desperately, they hate is regardless of whatever. As a result, the characters’ love quite strong, shaking-heart. “Unchanged as the mount, ferocity as the lighting” (song p七).Hence, Wuthering Heights becomes the most magnificent love epic in the world.
    The social culture and humanity
    In the nineteenth century, the Victorian period the nobleman is enormously proud of their success, full of the temporal rank concept. Status is first, money is God. People’s spirits suffer from the intense oppression. Humanity is twisted without mercy. The Earnshows hold a precarious place within the hierarchy. Although the gentry, possessed servants and often large estates, they nonetheless hold a fragile social position. The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry’s status, but the Earnshows are on much shakier ground social. Catherine wants to marry Edgar so that she will be “the greatest woman of the neighborhood”. Above all, this is the social culture and humanity on that time.
    But Catherine and Heathcliff‘s character is governed by their passions, not by reflection or ideals of civility. Also the house where they live comes to symbolize the humanity, but Thrushcross Grange represents culture, convention, refinement. When Catherine left for Thrushcross Grange the first time, she has impacted on this culture and finds herself deeply attracted by it. Therefore, for love her heart so ambivalent. Owning to Catherine’s changing, Heathcliff begins to resent the society that is responsible, “when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman he becomes a villain”. Humanity was dispelled in a corner; social culture was filled in civic brain.
    Catherine’s love under the social culture
    The heroine—Catherine is very ambivalent in her love .Due to human nature, she loves Heathcliff deeply with childlike passion, and her soul can’t live without him. But the social culture made her betray the love in order to satisfy her yearning for fame and wealth. She chooses Linton, hereby her love becomes a tragedy.