论《怒吼山庄》中的爱(3)

    Catherine is crazy about Heath cliff. Their love is rooted in their childhood and is marked by the refusal to change and embrace those differences. Moreover, their love is based on their shared perception that they are identical, even their souls are shared by one. Catherine declares, “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”. (Gao p一0三) “I am Heathcliff!”(Gao p一0五) When she first comes back from Thrushcross Grange, she i妹妹ediately realizes the impact that the social culture has had in her. Her heart becomes more complex and ambivalent. Catherine looks for Heathcliff, to embrace and kiss him, at the same time she is afraid about Heathcliff’s dirty clothe against her clean dress. She also treats her marriage like this. If she marries Heathcliff she will be a beggar. Even if she is well aware that without Heathcliff she can’t live, but the cruel reality helps her realize that marrying Linton will make her become the greatest woman in the area. The temptation of material benefit and the bourgeois culture society, made her betray her love .But her betrayal is not thorough. Although, she dares to break free from the low class culture. She is still crazy about Heathcliff even without property, status. As Catherine says “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now ………but because he is more myself than I am.” (Gao p一0二) But humanity’s love never let Catherine give up Heathcliff .Catherine said “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary……..but as my own being.”(Gao p一0五) Her choice about marriage made her betray her humanity and Heath cliff, forcing Heathcliff to leave .Despite her childlike nature to love him very deeply with fierce passion. Social culture wins humanity in Catherine, but she was never happy at the civilized Thrushcross Grange, and found herself feeling empty without soul. And for the next seven years, Catherine coasted through life, living only in the past .Her soul so eager to meet Heathcliff’s soul. Ultimately, she is torn between her wild passion for Heath cliff and her social ambition. But the primitive love exceeds the cultural love, causes her miss the Wuthering Heights in sick. And before she dies, go into the bosom of Heathcliff. After she dies, her lonely ghost thirsts for coming back Wuthering Heights. She uses the melancholy voice sobs “Let me in —Let me in!”(Song p二八)
    Heathcliff’s love and hate
    Heathcliff’s love is pure in intention and never changes. Like Catherine, he loves to run around on the moor. His love just has the human nature’s emotion without rank, culture .Heathcliff never says “love”, but his love stronger than hurricane, compare with cloudburst. He is filled with uncontrollable passion. In chapter third, he hears some sounds in Catherine’s room, “his agitation was so extreme, that he could hardly pick it up.”(Gao p三0) Upon arriving at the bedroom, as Lockwood[the renter of Thrushcross Grange] flees from it, Heath cliff cries out to Catherine begging her to return.. “ ‘Come in ! Come in!’He sobbed ‘Cathy, do come .Oh do –once more! Oh! My heart’s darling; hear me this time. Catherine, at last!’ ”(Gao p三三) this shows how Heathcliff tastes the bitterness of his lost love. His love for Catherine is expressed simple, honestly brevity but full of fervid love. In chapter sixteenth, he curses Catherine for the pain. She has caused him and pleads with her spirit to haunt him for the rest of his life. She may take any form, he says, and even drives me mad as long as I am living. He goes on to say “may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you ---haunt me, then!” “Be with me always---take any form ---drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I can’t find you!”(Gao p二一八)Although in this chapter, there are no definite words to represent Heathcliff’s love, it is nonetheless known and deeply rooted in their hearts, never losing their passion. Because of the strength of his love for Catherine, Heathcliff undertakes his wicked and vengeful revenge against those deems responsible for his misery