文档介绍：Wuthering Heights
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her onls away.
Later, Heathcliff returns, now a wealthy gentleman. Catherine has married Edgar. Edgar's sister, Isabella, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, who despises her but encourages the infatuation as a means of revenge. Upset, Catherine locks herself in her room, and begins to make herself ill again through spite and jealousy. Finally Heathcliff marries Isabella and Catherine dies after giving birth to her daughter, Cathy.
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Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Heathcliff thus finds himself master of Wuthering Heights becuase Hindley owns him money. Heathcliff teaches Hareton bad habits as revenge. And Isabella leaves Heathcliff and gives birth to a son, Linton.
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Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31)
After twelve years, Catherine's daughter Cathy grows into a beautiful, high-spirited girl. Later Isabella dies, and her son Linton has to come back. When Linton returns, a weak and sickly boy, his father Heathcliff insists that he live at Wuthering Heights.
The following year, Heathcliff and Linton trick Cathy and Nelly into entering Wuthering Heights and forces Cathy and Linton into marriage. Several days after their marrige, Edgar dies, and Heathcliff become the master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Soon after that, Linton dies.
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Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy, but she retreats and then withdraws from the world. But later they become close. While their friendship developed, Heathcliff began to act strangely and had visions of Catherine. He stopped eating and after four days was found dead in Catherine's old room. He was buried next to Catherine.
Hareton and Cathy plan to marry on New Year's Day.
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Characters
Heathcliff
Catherine Earnshaw
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Heathcliff: Found, presumably orphaned, on the streets of Liverpool and taken to