摘要

《呼啸山庄》是英国著名女作家艾米丽•勃朗特的一部经典之作。近百年来，我国学者对《呼啸山庄》主题的研究层出不穷。本文试图以爱情为主题，对比分析两代主人公的爱恨情仇，第一代主人公希斯克利夫和凯瑟琳超凡的爱情最后以生命消亡悲剧告终，但是第二代人主人公哈里顿和凯西的出生以及他们的圆满结局正是对第一代人生命和爱情的融合和延续。同时本文作者通过对哈里顿和凯西美好爱情结局分析来帮助我们解读艾米丽•勃朗特的理想爱情观。

关键字：两代人；  融合；  延续； 爱情观；

Abstract

Wuthering Heights is a classic of the famous British writer Emily Bronte. There are many scholars’ researches on the theme of Wuthering Heights in the past century. This paper attempts to make a comparative analysis of two generations’ love and hatred based on the theme of love. The heroes of the first generation, Heathcliff and Catherine, whose love are of transcendence, ended in tragedy, but the births as well as the happy ending of the second generation, Hareton and Cathy are the integration and continuation of the first generation’s life and love. At the same time, the author of the present paper analyzes the happy ending of Hareton and Cathy’s love to help us to unscramble Emily Bronte’s views of ideal love.

Keywords:  two generations;  integration;  continuation;  views of love;

1.    Introduction
In the history of the world literature, love is the eternal theme of literary works. It has different forms of expressions and various characteristics. Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte is a very unique one of the world famous works about the theme of love. Since the publication of the novel in 1847, it has always been a concern. After published worldwide, it had experienced from people’s criticism to people’s praise. And in the 20th century, literary critics used various literary theories to study and analyze. It does show that the novel has a large influence and a rich connotation. Emily Bronte has never experienced love in her short life, but she blooms with extremely brilliant flower of love in her inner world. She is so insightful especially in terms of human love that the generations could not help be in admiration.
1.1 The introduction of the author
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) was born in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Patrick Bronte and Maria Barnwell. Emily Bronte, the second of the three Bronte sisters, is regarded as the greatest woman poet in English literature. However she is better known as the author of Wuthering Heights, her only novel. Wuthering Heights is a genius work of radiate splendor for the literary world in the nineteenth century in England. Cold and violent, mysterious and weird and also indistinct, it is filled with divine warmth in the background of its wild romantic style. She remains a spinster throughout her life. Emily has an unusual character, extremely unsocial and reserved with few friends outside her family. She prefers the company of animals to people and rarely travels, forever yearning for the freedom of Haworth and the moors. She has a will of iron—a well known story about her was that she was bitten by a rabid dog due to her walking calmly into the kitchen and cauterizing the wound herself with a hot iron. In appearance, she is lithesome and graceful, the tallest of the Bronte children，but eats sparingly and would starve herself when unhappy or unable to get her own way.