-----Brief Comments on Mr.
"Wuthering Heights" is a famous works written by one of the greatest .
British poets and novelists ------ Emily Bronte who exerted her utmost .
effort to finish this works. It is a Romantic novel, which has been .
discussed and investigated by the scholars all over the world. Besides its .
symphonic frame and its implicit narrative method, another important .
reason for this novel being loved is that the hero Heathcliff has a .
galloping enthusiasm, a distinct love and hate. His supernormal and ruthless .
revenge is also attractive. One of the greatest British critics William .
Somerset Mugham said that: "I do not know another novel which has the .
same descriptions of pain, infatuation, cruelty and insistence of .
love.".
Emily Bronte was born in a clergyman's family. Once she was sent to a .
boarding school with strict rules and inclement conditions. When she .
was nineteen, she became a teacher who is at low status. Therefore, she .
knew something about the people's lives of middle and lower levels. She .
spent most of her short life in Yorkshire. The primitive, rugged and .
unstrained life there trained her an obstinate, willful, apprehensive and .
cruel character. The name of her hero ------ Heathcliff is made up by .
two words: heath and cliff. The name creates a "cruel" impression to .
readers, which is also just a reflection of her mentality. Emily Bronte .
tortuously depicted the influences due to the industrial development of .
capitalistic society and social changes in Britain. Meanwhile, she .
revealed her most inherent instinct and hidden secret in this powerfully .
energetic and stirring novel. Emily Bronte thoroughly put herself into .
the role ------ Heathcliff. She poured her fury, her scorn to .
capitalistic society, her cruelty, her loneliness, resistance and struggle into .
Heathcliff. Therefore, Heathcliff had the right to say: "I am also an .
Emily Bronte!".
Originally, Heathcliff was a destitute child who was adopted by Mr.