摘 要

艾米丽·简·勃朗特的唯一一部小说《呼啸山庄》充满哥特色彩。小说由洛克伍德和奈莉迪恩讲述，利用双人物多重叙述奠定整部小说恐怖氛围。本文旨在通过人物矛盾刻画，环境描写和叙事特征三个方面分析作者如何在小说中运用哥特风格，从而突出了小说的哥特主题——恐怖、复仇和死亡。

关键词：艾米丽·简·勃朗特; 《呼啸山庄》; 哥特风格

Contents

1. Introduction................................................................................................................1

2. Demonstration............................................................................................................2

2.1 Characters contributing to horrible impression........................................................2

2.1.1 Revenge and fight of Heathcliff............................................................................3

2.1.2 Contradiction and pain of Catherine.....................................................................5

2.2 Environment descriptions showing terror and mystery...........................................6

2.2.1 Gruesome architecture..........................................................................................7

2.2.2 Harsh weather and supernatural environment.......................................................8

2.3 Sophisticated point of view representing Gothic complication...............................9

2.3.1 Lockwood’s first-person point of view.................................................................9

2.3.2 Nelly Dean’s first-person point of view..............................................................10

2.3.3 The effect of double narration.............................................................................10

3. Conclusion................................................................................................................11

Works Cited..................................................................................................................12

Bibliography.................................................................................................................13

A Brief Analysis of the Gothic Style Embodied in Wuthering Heights

1. Introduction

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and she is considered to be a classic of English literature. Although she published only one novel─Wuthering Heights in her whole life. The novel is regarded as a piece of grand work in world literature. Emily had two sisters Charlotte and Anne. In 1820, after her youngest sisiter Anne’s birth, her family moved to Haworth. Here the children developed their literary talents. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.

Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847. The novel has been experienced a lot of ups and downs─from being criticized and ignored to being regarded as one of the best novels in the world. When the novel was just published, Victorian readers thought the story full of various morbid psychologies. They thought the book should be renamed as Wuthering Heights. The book was criticized and abandoned at that time. With the passage of time, more and more people are interested in the novel. Lots of scholars have begun to analyze the novel from different perspectives, such as love and revenge, feminist consciousness.

Wuthering Heights has received wide critical attention and been studied from different perspectives. The overseas study of this story can be divided into the following aspects: love and revenge, the personalities of main characters and feminist consciousness. Chinese scholars have explored the structure, Gothic style as well as characterization. For example, in Xiao Minghan’s Gothic Tradition in English and American Literature, written in 2001, in Pu Ruoxi’s Wuthering Heights and Gothic Tradition, written in 2002, they all analyzed Wuthering Heights in the aspect of Gothic style.