摘  要

自古以来，人们对爱情的追求从未停止。作为人们生活中永恒的主题，爱情犹如鲜艳的带刺玫瑰，其甜美并不能掩盖其给人带来的痛苦。而在许多文学作品中，爱情亦在其中扮演着不可或缺的角色。如由艾米丽 勃朗特撰写的被世人称为“文学史上的斯芬克斯”的《呼啸山庄》，爱情也是这部小说中的主题。作为艾米丽 勃朗特一生唯一的一部小说，《呼啸山庄》在文学界中有着举足轻重的地位。小说中两位主人公希斯克厉夫和凯瑟琳的爱情悲剧向来是最吸引人的要素，而其爱情悲剧自小说出版之日起就饱受关注和争议。而关于希斯克厉夫这个角色，他的性格扭曲的原因自19世纪80年代起就已成为文学界研究的主要方向之一，而对于他的扭曲的原因的分析，也有助于更好地了解这部小说。
本文认为在诸多形成希斯克厉夫悲剧性格的因素中，凯瑟琳的爱情抉择是最重要也是最根本的因素，并对这一观点进行详细地探讨和阐述。
本文将利用许多国际上知名研究方向的理论，并将其中的“爱情理论”作为基本理论，将重点放在希斯克厉夫于凯瑟琳的爱情悲剧、凯瑟琳的爱情抉择希斯克厉夫所造成的影响这两方面上。首先，给出一个两人爱情悲剧以及希斯克厉夫的扭曲性格的简介。然后，一些造成希斯克厉夫扭曲性格的因素将会被提及而作为深入探讨的依据。在这之后，将会分析造成两人爱情悲剧的表面因素以及内在因素。本文的结尾会提出，凯瑟琳的爱情抉择是形成希斯克厉夫的悲剧性格的首要因素。

关键词： 爱情悲剧，悲剧性格，希斯克里夫与凯瑟琳，呼啸山庄

ABSTRACT

Through ages, human beings have always been in pursuit of love. As an eternal theme in human life, Love is a seductive rose with thorn, and it brings pain though it may tastes honey. Love also plays a needful role in many literary outputs, so does it in the novel Wuthering Heights which is called “Sphinx in literature” written by Emily Bronte. As the sole novel in Emily Bronte’s life, Wuthering Heights owns a great fame in literature. The tragic love between two main characters Heathcliff and Catherine is the most fascinating factor in this novel and has been under dispute since the novel was published, and the factors to form Heathcliff’s tragic characters, which helps to get a better understanding of this novel, has been a major research direction in literature since 1880s.
This thesis argues that Catherine’s choice of love is the most important factor which causes Heathcliff’s distortion and as a result, contributes to the formation of his tragic characters.
This thesis mainly focuses on the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine and the influence of Catherine’s choice of love made on Heathcliff’s distortion. It fist give a brief introduction of Heathcliff’s distortion and his tragic love between Catherine; then some main factors which deal with Heathcliff’s distortion would be mentioned and provided as supplements as further research. After that, it tries to analyze both external and internal factors which cause the tragic love between Heathcliff and Catherine. And the paper ends with the conclusion that Catherine’s choice of love is the primary factor which shapes Heathcliff’s tragic personalities.

Key words: Tragic love，Tragic characters，Heathcliff and Catherine，Wuthering Heights