A Reading Report of Wuthering Heights
The book I have read this term is Wuthering Heights.Emily Bronte (1818-1848) is perhaps the greatest writer of the three Bronte sisters——Charlotte Bronte, Emily, and Anne Bronte.Emily Bronte published only one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847).Some of her best lyric are also rated with the best in English poetry.Her famous poems are Love and Friendship, The Bluebell.
A man named Lockwood rents a manor house called Thrushcro Grange where the housekeeper Nelly tells him the story here.One day, Mr.Earnshaw, the owner of the manor, goes to Liverpool and returns home with an orphan boy.At first, the Earnshaw children——a boy named Hindley and his younger sister Catherine ——detest Heathcliff.But Catherine quickly comes to love him.Mr.Earnshaw prefers him to his own son, and he sends Hindley away to college when he treats Heathcliff badly.Then Mr.Earnshaw dies, and Hindley returns with a wife.He treats Heathcliff as a labor to seek revenge on him.One night, Heathcliff and Catherine wander to Thrushcro Grange.Catherine is bitten by a dog and is forced to stay at the the Grange.During that time, she infatuates with Edgar.Catherine’s desire for social advancement prompts her to become engaged to Edgar Linton.Heathcliff runs aways froms Wuthering Heights, and returning shortly after Catherine and Edgar’s marriage.Then he deviously lends money to drunken Hindley.When Hindley dies, he inherits the manor.He places himself in line to inherit Thrushcro Grange by marring Isabella Linton.Catherine becomes ill, she gives birth to a daughter and dies.Shortly therefore, Isabella flees to London and gives birth to Heathcliff’s son, named Hareton.Thirteen years pa, young Catherine meets Hareton.They began a secret
romance.Linton pursues Catherine only because his father forces him to.When Edgar nears death, Heathcliff lures and holds Catherine prisoner until she marries Linton.Then Edgar and Linton die soon.Six months later, Lockwood returns, and finds that Catherine grows to love Hareton as they live together and plan to be married.Heathcliff becomes more and more obseed with elder Catherine, and then dies soon.
Wuthering Heights is a claic tragedy of love.I am surprised by how much I like it.This is a book that talks about the death of romantic notions, even the relatively happen ending doesn’t reduce its sorrow.When I was wrapped up in the story, I am so moved by their true love and felt sadne deep in my heart.After reading the whole story, I would like to talk about the main character of the story——Catherine Earnshaw and her choice of marriage.Catherine does love Heathcliff very much for he is more herself than she is, but her choice of love really leads to the tragedy.In Catherine’s life, she made a very important decision in her life——marrying to Edgar.In fact, her love for Edgar can never be compared to that for Heathcliff.She did so, because she thought the wealth of Edgar would be useful to help Heathcliff.Heathcliff is a man full of retaliations.He loved Catherine very much, but what he did, on the contrary, added to the misery of Catherine, he should not walk into Catherine’s life again after his disappearance.At the same time, his revenge on young Catherine and Edgar as well as his own son seems so ridiculous and can only bring himself with endle sadne.
As far as I am concerned, the choice between true love and high social status is so difficult.Many people say that the life is real, you can not make a living only depend on romance, so most people persuade me to marry to a rich man.In the modern life, if one man has no house or money, it is difficult for him to find a wife.So we can not get rid of thinking of this fact.Different people have different attitudes towards happine.They should choose unique love from which they can find what they like best, in order that
they can stay happy all their lives.After reading, I have a better understanding of love.If you really love someone, his or her happine is the most matters.Not having a right understanding of and attitudes towards love will only result in hurting yourself as well as the one you love.In a ward, love is the permanent theme of literature and Human Beings.People often struggle in those troubling romantic notions.To be or not to be, it’s really a question.However, which kind of marriage one should choose depends all on his or her character and experience, no one else can make choice for them and that’s why every love story is unique.
