[呼啸山庄英文读后感]
Between Love and hatred
-----on Wuthering Heights by Emily
Bronte
Wuthering Heights told the story happened between
two old families, the Earnshawn family living in Wuthering Heights
and the Linton family living in Thrushcross Grange.
The story began when old Mr. Earnshawn one day took home an
orphan who he adopted on his way to Liverpool. He named the boy
Heathcliff. From the very beginning, Mr. Earnshawn’s son Hindley
hated Heathcliff for he shared Mr. Earnshawn’s love. Hindley often
beat Heathcliff. Though Heathcliff never complained, quiet anger
grew inside.
On the contrary, Mr. Earnshawn’s daughter Catherine became
Heathcliff’s close friend soon after his arrival. They played
together and grew up together. As time went by, their affection
towards each other became increasingly deep.
Years later, Old Mr. Earnshawn passed away. Hindley became the
head of the family. He began to abuse Heathcliff, treated him as a
servant and forbade Catherine from being together with him.
Heathcliff sliently tolerated all these insults, but inside his
heart anger turned into extreme hatred, which made his character
more twisted.
Then, an accident happened. One evening, Catherine and
Heathcliff slinked into Thrushcross Grange to have fun.
Unfortunately, they were discovered and Catherine was bitten by a
dog. The master of Thrushcross Grange Mr. Linton drove away
Heathcliff and kept Catherine to recover from the wound for 5
weeks. During her stay at Thrushcross Grange, Catherine became
friends with Mr. Linton’s son Edgar and daughter Isabella. The
brother and sister not only took good care of Catherine but also
taught her good manners which changed her from a vulgar girl into a
graceful lady.
However, at the same time Catherine’s affection towards
Heathcliff also underwent a subtle change. Although she knew she
still loved Heathcliff very much, she came to feel it a shame to
marry him, a servant. When Edgar, a handsome wealthy kind but
sheepish young man proposed to her, she betrayed her true feelings
and accepted the proposal. Hearing the news of Catherine’s
engagement by chance, Heathcliff left angrily and sadly.
Three years later, Catherine married Edgar and led a peaceful
and happy life. But the happiness ended when Heathcliff suddenly
came back. He had made his fortune and acted like a gentleman.
Catherine was quite delighted and wanted her husband and Heathcliff
to be friends, but Heathcliff came back only to take revenge for
the happiness and love he lost.
Heathcliff gambled with Hindley who had been lost in alcohol
after his wife’s death and tricked him out of money. In this way
Heathcliff became the master of Wuthering Heights. Besides, when
Heathcliff found Edgar’s sister Isabella was foolishly admiring his
appearance and wealth, he deceived the poor girl and persuaded her
to run away with him. Angry with a fight between Edgar and
Heathcliff, Catherine went on a hunger strike and became ill. At
that time she was already pregnant. Although Edgar looked after her
extremely carefully, Catherine’s health condition just went from
bad to worse. Finally, after she gave birth to a baby girl who was
also named Catherine, she died in Heathcliff’s arms, wearing a
smile.
During the following 16 years, Hindley, Isabella and Edgar died
in succession. Nevertheless, although he was for long soaked in the
misery of losing Catherine, Heathcliff’s hatred did not fade. He
turned to take revenge on the next generation. He taught Hindley’s
son Hareton to be rude. He tricked Edgar’s daughter little
Catherine into marrying his own son Linton Heathcliff, with the
intrigue that since Little Linton suffered from constant illness
and was dying, he would be in possession of Thrushcross Grange once
his son died. At that time he would be able to do whatever he
wanted and took revenge on anybody. But when the time came, he
suddenly realized that revenge didn’t make him happier but more
miserable. He lost the interest of destroying the next generation
and approved of little Catherine remarrying Hareton. The two later
lived a happy life together.
In the end, on a cold and rainy night, Heathcliff ended his own
life tragically. But it was said that after his death, people often
saw two spirits haunting near Wuthering Heights. And the two
spirits looked just like Heathcliff and Catherine.
From my point of view, the theme of Wuthering
Heights is stormy love and hatred, just as the book title
suggests. It is beyond doubt displayed most thoroughly by the hero
Heathcliff. On the one hand, He loved Catherine so much that she
was the whole world to him. Losing Catherine equaled losing
everything. He couldn’t free himself from misery for even a single
minute after Catherine’s death. On the other hand, he hated Hindley
and Edgar so much that seeing them suffering was not enough. He
even felt like torturing the next generation. Another character
with strong love and hatred was Hindley. Heathcliff once remarked
that Hindley’s wife was the only person who loved Hindley.
Apparently Hindley thought so and returned all his love to his
wife. Thus, when his wife died in childbirth, he had nobody to love
but everybody to hate, including himself. Unlike Heathcliff who
expressed his hatred by taking revenge on others, Hindley poured
the hatred on himself by indulging in alcohol. He even didn’t
bother to continue hating Heathcliff and destroying him, he chose
to bring himself to distruction. Both Heathcliff and Hindley were
eventually devoured by their own strong love and hatred.
As far as I am concerned, I do not appreciate the stormy love
and hatred. The one I appreciate is Edgar, the man who also had
deep love but expressed it like running stream. His love for
Catherine was not necessarily less than Heathcliff’s and he was
more sensible. He loved Catherine so he proposed to her, took good
care of her, had a great fear of upsetting her and suffered greatly
seeing his dear wife troubled. His love was like the gentle breeze
that makes people feel comfortable and never smothered. Though he
met the similar fate as Hindley, he never abandoned himself. He
gave his love to their daughter, while never forgetting Catherine.
Of course, Edgar also had hatred. He had a thousand reasons to hate
Heathcliff, the person who got the true love of his wife, who
deceived his naive sister, who indirectly led to his wife’s death.
However, Edgar vented his hatred not even once. He did as he said:
punishment of the wicked belongs to God, we should learn to
forgive.
We all have love and hatred in our heart, more or less, weak or
strong. However, we should never turn them into devastating storm
which will not only hurt others but ourselves. We may find the best
way out by learning from Edgar to properly love, to forget hatred
and to forgive.
　　〔呼啸山庄英文读后感〕随文赠言：【这世上的一切都借希望而完成，农夫不会剥下一粒玉米，如果他不曾希望它长成种粒；单身汉不会娶妻，如果他不曾希望有孩子；商人也不会去工作，如果他不曾希望因此而有收益。】

六年级的啊...我好多年前看的了..故事还记得一些，好像就是那个什么复仇啊很复杂的..主角名都记不太清楚了..好像有个凯瑟琳..
你就剪短说
i like this kind of story that makes me feel as i'm right on the scene...the complicated relationships among these roles surprised me and interested me so much. from the story，i get to realize that ，people should be always kind to others..and be cautious，because maybe someone around you is your enemy.
我喜欢这种让我身临其境的故事。这种角色之间的复杂关系让我感到惊讶也很感兴趣。从这个故事，我意识到，人应该对他人友善，并且要警惕，因为也许你身边的某个人就是你的仇人。

第1个Many people in the world are trying to find a perfect companion.Some of these may marry and not know what their new husband or wife is like.This kind of situation often leads to separation or hostility. Other situations may develop between two friends that stem from jealousy, desire for revenge, uncaring parents, etc. Emily Bront�0�5's Wuthering Heights displays several characteristics of destructive relationships. Three of these are uncaring parents, marriage without knowing the person, and jealousy.
Uncaring or unsympathizing parents are shown throughout this story to be an element of destructive relationships. Because Heathcliff gained all the attention from Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley became disassociated from his father. This separation continued until after Mr. Earnshaw had died.Another example is between Hindley and Hareton. Hindley became such a drunk and a gambler that he could not properly care for young Hareton. This led to a separation between Hareton and his father as well. One primary example of an uncaring parent is shown between Heathcliff and his son Linton.Heathcliff did not even want his son for anything except enacting a part of his revenge. This is shown by Linton's fear of Heathcliff and Heathcliff's enmity toward his son. Linton even says "... my father threatened me, and I dread him - I dread him!"(244) to express his feeling about Heathcliff.The hostility and separation between father and son in this book shows that uncaring parents can cause serious damage in relationships with their children.
This element of destructive behavior may stem from an unhappy marriage in which the husbands or wives don't know each other. This had happened between Isabella and Heathcliff. Isabella did not really know Heathcliff when she married him, but after she had married him she saw that Heathcliff was not a gentleman at all. To declare her feelings she wrote "Is Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? I shan't tell my reasons for making this inquiry; but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married ..."(125). Another example of this is when Catherine married Edgar Linton. Although she had been happy at the beginning of the marriage, she thought having parties all the time was going to be fun. Yet, after a while, she became bored. She also realized that she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar and would always love Heathcliff.This enlightenment created separation between Edgar and Catherine during the final hours of Cathy's life. An additional marriage which was made that was doomed was the one between Catherine and Linton. Because this was a forced marriage, Cathy had not yet learned all she could about Linton.Because she did not know until after the marriage that Linton was selfish and inconsiderate, she became distressed and grew isolated in the house.These three failed marriages described in this novel show that knowing the person you will marry is very important.While these marriages took place, jealousy also took a hold in some relationships. One example of this is when Mr. Earnshaw starts to favor Heathcliff over his own son, Hindley. Because of this, Hindley becomes jealous of young Heathcliff and sets out to make Heathcliff's life a nightmare. Hindley's jealousy becomes evident when he says ,"... be damned you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has; only afterwards show him what you are, imp of Satan."(35). Jealousy was also found very notably in the relationship between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.

《呼啸山庄》英文读后感
Thoughts or reflections on reading Wuthering Heights
The book was written by Emily Bronte, it published in 1847.But at that time, it seemed to hold little promise, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. I found this in our school library, I chose this book because the title attracted me. The book is structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In the story, the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent opposing worlds and values.
I spent twenty days reading this book. After reading this book, I felt for Heathcliff at first. Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, and then he tyrannized by Hindley Earnshaw. But he becomes a villain when he acquires power and returns to Wuthering Heights with money and the trappings of a gentleman. His malevolence proves so great and long—lasting. As he himself points out, his abuse of Isabella—his wife is purely sadistic, as he amuses himself by seeing how much abuse she can take and still come cringing back for more.
Catherine represents wild nature, in both her high, lively spirits and her occasional cruelty. She loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person. However, her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons, and which eventually compel her to marry Edgar. Catherine is free—spirited, beautiful, spoiled, and often arrogant, she is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her both of the men who love her. The location of her coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short life. She is buried in a corner of the Kirkyard. In contrast to Catherine, Isabella Linton—Catherine’s sister—in—law represents culture and civilization, both in her refinement and in her weakness. Ultimately, she ruins her life by falling in love with Heathcliff. He never returns her feelings and treats her as a meretool in his quest for revenge on the Linton family.
Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’s. Edgar grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man. He is almost the ideal gentleman. However, this full assortment of gentlemanly characteristics, along with his civilized virtues, proves useless in Edgar’s clashes with his foil. He sees his wife obviously in love with another man but unable to do anything to rectify the situation. Heathcliff, who gains power over his wife, sister , and daughter.
The whole story make people’s mood heavy. Fortunately, the end is happy.
The author Emily Bronte lived an eccentric, closely guarded life. She was born in 1818, two years after Charlotte—the author of Jane Eyre and a year and a half before her sister Anne, who also became an author. Her father worked as a church rector, and her aunt, who raised the Bronte children after their mother died, was deeply religious. Emily Bronte did not take to her aunt’s Christian fervor, the character of Joseph, a caricature of an evangelical, may have been inspired by her aunt’s religiosity. The Brontes lived in Haworth, a Yorkshire village in the midst of the moors. These wild, desolate expanses—later the setting of Wuthering Heights—made up the Brontes daily environment, and Emily lived among them her entire life. She died in 1848, at the age of thirty.
Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.
Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written
The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a

?servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.
As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond. beyond.