呼啸山庄英语读后感范文
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呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇1
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.
I like this book because it rest on the unforgettable characters. Wuthering Heights is based partly on the Gothic tradition, a style of literature that featured supernatural encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. I would like to recommend this book to other readers.
呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇2
Wuthering Heights,the only fiction of Emily Bronte, was published in 1847. It is a story about love and revenge. After finishing the novel, most people including me would appreciate Heathcliff for his pure, simple and untamed love which would never change until death. On the other hand, it is difficult to understand his abnormal, callous and his love for Catherine. Heathcliff was an illiberal and unscrupulous person. He loved Catherine and was willing to give up everything for her. In the north of England where the wind blew hard, the black and dirty child, Heathcliff, fell in love with a little girl, Catherine who gave him love and also misery.
Wuthering Heights is an ideal heaven for those misanthropists to escape from the real life. In this beautiful but desolate world, Heathcliff as a stranger appeared. When he was 6 or 7 years old and at the edge of starving, Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of wuthering heights, saved him. Heathcliff’s childhood was unfortunate. Before he came to the wuthering heights, he was almost dead. When he was at Mr. Earnshaw’s home, he was bullied and maltreat by Mr. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley Earnshaw. However, at that moment, Catherine Earnshaw saved him, and everything became different. Catherine was a crazy and wild girl. The writer described as follows: “Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going--singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she was.” However, she was goodness and pretty. The relationship between them was developing under the lack of civilized education. Their life was tightly held together, they had to face Hindley. But their friendship broke when Catherine was 12 years old, when she met Edgar Linton a wealthy and handsome boy from Thrushcross Grange. Three years later, she agreed to marry Edger. In Heathcliff’s mind, it was Edgar who bore away his love. Thus, when he came back to wuthering heights and began his cruel revenge.
Catherine lost her childhood at the time when she started to consider her future. She totally knew that it was impossible to be together with Heathcliff. She had to find the future, a wealthy, handsome husband who could give her steady life and reputation while Heathcliff had nothing. But when she married Edgar, she didn’t feel happy at all. She remembered that she had betrayed Heathcliff and herself. Money and house brought her into nothingness. She began to cherish the memory of Heathcliff, cherished the little boy stood by her. There was no etiquette and standard but sincerity. In the wuthering heights, happiness was gone forever. Because of Hindley, Heathcliff lost the chance to learn and he was almost lost himself. Fortunately, Catherine did not give up him. He abandoned himself for his self-abased. In their love, even at that storming night, Heathcliff left. They never thought about their future, their life. Thus, shall we ask that love should be based on what? Catherine loved Edgar, but she also said to Nelly:” you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars? whereas, if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brother's power.” Before the difficulty, she chose to confront. On the contrary, Heathcliff chose to escape, because he had no courage to overcome it. Catherine was 15 while Heathcliff was 16, they were children. They didn’t understand what love was. They just found the happiness they had in common.
We can suppose that if Heathcliff didn’t leave, and he lived with Catherine, were they happy? Were they at ease? What life did they live? Can they run crazily on the wild land? Catherine looked down upon Heathcliff’s cowardice, once she talked about Heathcliff to Isabella: “Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. But she had never suspected her courage.” She loved Heathcliff undoubtedly, but she was afraid to be with him. Heathcliff had questioned her:” You teach me now how cruel you've been--cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Catherine?” If they loved each other, why did cheat their heart? Compared with Catherine, is Heathcliff more forgivable for his insistence and self-abased?
In the end, Catherine died. She was 19, and Heathcliff was 20. However, the story was not end. After Catherine’s death, Heathcliff was not likable. His maniac revenge seemed no endless. He even took vengeance on their children. Is this love? Is this resentment? Did Heathcliff love Catherine more or he hate the world more? What did he revenge for? Does for Catherine or him? They tortured each other, but they still loved each other. We can not find out the answer. But we can know that at last, they finally stayed with each other and no one can take them apart. “And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?' I said. ——Of dissolving with her, and being more happy still!' he answered.” No matter how much misunderstanding, regret and pain they received before, now they rest in peace. Just like Catherine said:” Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”。
When I finished reading this book and begin to chew the profound meaning and the essence in this book, I find that I have learned a lot of life truth. For my part, love is to learn tolerance. If you really fall in love with someone, you will understand if she or he can get happiness and have ever loved you, that is enough. Reading a classic is a really tired and joyful thing. When I am moved by the figure’s emotion, I will feel sad and also gain enlightenment. In addition, which moves me most is that it teaches me to keep the dignity of life and the heart of freedom. No matter how austere the challenge we meet, we should yearn for freedom.
呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇3
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 ledramatic 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 ThrushcroGrange. In the story, the two houses, Wuthering Heights and ThrushcroGrange, 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 homeleorphan 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 uselein 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.
呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇4
The story describes Heathcliff and Catherine stay together morning and night's childhood life; special feelings of a foundling and a lady formed in this special environment, as well as their Hindley tyrannical revolt. Later, Catherine deserted Heath Cliff because of vanity, ignorance and ignorance, and became the mistress of the grange. Then how Heath Cliff filled with hatred and despair to recover the ashes strategy and action. Although the only account of the final stage of Heathcliff's death, but which reveal when he understood that Hareton and Katie love, a new change of the human nature thought the experience of recovery, which makes it a terrorist with color love tragedy revealed a bundle of joy is the light of hope.
The love in Wuthering Heights is so special that it is different from the love created in any novel so far. This' Emily 'type of love is so sincere, frank, and never self-conscious affectation half. Only this kind of emotion, is really from the heart of human beings, is from the human nature. Everything in it is so naked that there is no half a prison, and never thought of imprisonment. This is the most real portrayal of lust, Emily never gave it a kind of so-called 'literary one. Emily created the hero, love is so strong, beyond everything, even if it is not the distance between life and death. Love is deep, pain is cut. The hatred of Heath and Clif is so strong, true and powerful. This desire for revenge is so powerful that it can destroy everything around him. The fire of revenge burned the two families. He was so miserable when Catherine died. Catherine took away his love and took him away. Although he is still alive, he is no different from death. Even if he gets so much, it's not enough to fill his loss, his heart's trauma. Because Catherine died, his life was meaningless. When he calls his lover day and night like a ghost, he never gets it again. He tortured others, also not to hurt his injured all over the body every hour and moment. His revenge was reported, and he got so many people's property, but he lost the last pillar to support his survival, so at this moment, he died.
In the novel, the author of all efforts in the condensed Schiesz Cliffe image portray, she placed all their sympathy and indignation, ideal here. This has been deprived of human warmth of the outcast in real life, cultivate love and hate strongly, Hindley. He tasted the cruelty of life, also taught him to understand that it cannot change the destiny of their own humiliation. He chose rebellion. Catherine finally betrayed Heathcliff married, she did not understand it does not love Edgar Linton. Catherine's betrayal and after marriage sorrow destiny, is the most important turning point in the book. It made Heath Cliff's full love turn into incomparable hate; Catherine died, the cavity hatred erupted like a volcano, and became a crazy revenge power. His objective was achieved, he not only made Hindley and a miserable death, dominate the two industrial estates, but also let them innocent next generation also suffered a bitter defeat.
呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇5
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.
呼啸山庄英语读后感范文篇6
The fascinating author of the novel take the reader to the wonderful land surrounding the Wuthering Heights through non-linear narration. Characters disappears, new faces shows up, circumstances tides up an down, lives toaround but, the basic emotion remain static: the violent passion as represented by the never changing stormy climate at Wuthering Heights.
The life at Wuthering Heights opens up before the reader through third person narratives. The novel begins at the end of 1803, when the tenant Mr Lockwood of ThrushcroGrange, visits his landlord Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights. Lockwood has to stay back with the unwelcoming family of landlord due to the storm outside. At night he experiences a terrifying dream: the ghost of Catherine Linton, pleading to be admitted to the house from outside. Intrigued, Lockwood asks the housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell the story of Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights
The novel leaves the reader awestruck for its wonderful imagination and powerful statements. Emily Bront? has skillfully blended the emotions of the characters with the gothic settings. This novel is a must read for anyone who has experienced the magic of love and passion in life.