文档介绍：Hhe Funetions of
Environmental Description
in Wuthering Heights
Outline
One Some environmental descriptions
Two Analysis on the functions
Three Conclusion: environmental
description is a key of novel writing.
Part 1
Some environmental descriptions
Wuthering heights
2, Thrushcross grange
The tombs
4, Other environmental descriptions
Wuthering heights
Wuthering " being a significant provincial adjective,
descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is
exposed in stormy weather. Pure, braving ventilation they
must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the
power of a few stunted firs at the end of the houses and by a
range of gaunt thorns all stretching there limbs one way, as if
craving alms of the sun
呼啸”是一个意味深长的内地形容词,形容这地方在风
暴的天气里所受的气压骚动。的确,他们这几一定是随时
都流通着振奋精神的纯洁空气。从厉屋那头有几棵矮
的枞树过度倾斜,还有那一排瘦削的荆棘都向着一个方
向伸展枝榮,仿佛在向太阳乞讨温暖,就可以猜想到北风
吹过的威力了
Thrushcross grange
This is certainly a beautiful country! In all
England, i do not believe that i could have
fixed on a situation so completely removed
from the stir of society. a perfect
misanthropist ' s heaven
●这儿可真是一个美丽的乡村!在整个英格
兰境内,我不相信我竟能找到这样一个能
与尘世的喧嚣完全隔绝的地方,一个厌世
者的理想的天堂
Contrast
Wuthering heights
Thrushcross grange
he
The tombs
I lingered round them, under that benign sky
watched the moths fluttering among the heath
and hare-bells: listened to the soft wind
breathing through the grass; and wondered
how any one could ever imagine unquiet
slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth
我在那温和的天空
留连!望着飞蛾在石南
着柔风在草间吹动,我
那平静的土士地下面的长目
睡眠
以其之名祝福林顿在地底安眠
Some other environmental descriptions
事件
环境刻画
老肖恩去世的晚上
大风咆哮、狂暴猛烈
凯瑟琳下葬那晚上
风雪交加
希斯克利夫出走晚
上
暴雨如注
洛克伍德访呼啸山
庄
荒凉、偏僻、恐怖、神秘
Part 2
Functions
2
3
Back ground foil Characterization
Deepening
the theme
(Other functions)
Part 2 Background foil
1 Giving the place and time that the story happened
(交代故事发生的地点与背景)
·小说中的社会环境描写交代了故事发生的时间与地点,
增加了故事的真实性并未人物活动提供具体的背景。作
品第一章便