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《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇1
Many people in the world are trying tofind a perfect companion.Some of these may marry and not know whattheir new husband or wife is like.This kind of situation oftenleads to separation or hostility.
Other situations may developbetween two friends that stem from jealousy, desire for revenge,uncaring parents, etc. Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights displaysseveral characteristics of destructive relationships. Three ofthese are uncaring parents, marriage without knowing the person,and jealousy.Uncaring or unsympathizing parents are shown throughout this storyto be an element of destructive relationships. Because Heathcliffgained all the attention from Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley becamedisassociated from his father. This separation continued untilafter Mr. Earnshaw had died.Another example is between Hindley andHareton. Hindley became such a drunk and a gambler that he couldnot properly care for young Hareton. This led to a separationbetween Hareton and his father as well. One primary example of anuncaring parent is shown between Heathcliff and his sonLinton.Heathcliff did not even want his son for anything exceptenacting a part of his revenge. This is shown by Lintons fear ofHeathcliff and Heathcliffs enmity toward his son.The hostility and separation betweenfather and son in this book shows that uncaring parents can causeserious damage in relationships with their children.This element of destructive behavior may stem from an unhappymarriage in which the husbands or wives dont know each other. Thishad happened between Isabella and Heathcliff. Isabella did notreally know Heathcliff when she married him, but after she hadmarried him she saw that Heathcliff was not a gentleman at all. Todeclare her feelings she wrote Is Heathcliff a man? If so, is hemad?
And if not, is he a devil? I shant tell my reasons for makingthis inquiry; but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I havemarried .... Another example of this is when Catherinemarried Edgar Linton. Although she had been happy at the beginningof the marriage, she thought having parties all the time was goingto be fun. Yet, after a while, she became bored. She also realizedthat she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar and would always loveHeathcliff.This enlightenment created separation between Edgar andCatherine during the final hours of Cathys life. An additionalmarriage which was made that was doomed was the one betweenCatherine and Linton. Because this was a forced marriage, Cathy hadnot yet learned all she could about Linton.Because she did not knowuntil after the marriage that Linton was selfish and inconsiderate,she became distressed and grew isolated in the house.These threefailed marriages described in this novel show that knowing theperson you will marry is very important.While these marriages tookplace, jealousy also took a hold in some relationships. One exampleof this is when Mr. Earnshaw starts to favor Heathcliff over hisown son, Hindley. Because of this, Hindley becomes jealous of youngHeathcliff and sets out to make Heathcliffs life a nightmare.Hindleys jealousy becomes evident when he says ,... be damned youbeggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has; onlyafterwards show him what you are, imp of Satan.(35). Jealousy wasalso found very notably in the relationship between Heathcliff andEdgar Linton.The jealousy between them is expressed when Heathcliff and Edgarstart a hostile conversation after Cathys homecoming at Christmasnear the beginning of the book. As the story progresses these twobecome bitter enemies who will not speak to one another. Anotherrelationship which jealousy ruined is the one between Hareton andLinton. These two become jealous of each other over Cathysaffections. This relationship ends as Hareton and Linton hatingeach other.
These relationships show that jealousy can ruin arelationship very quickly.The jealousy, neglect, and unprepared nature of the manyrelationships in this book indicates that many of the relationshipsin this book have gone sour. In spite of all these destructiveelements one relationship may succeed. This is the one betweenCathy and Hareton. Because there is no more jealousy or neglect,and because they are getting to know each other, their relationshiphas a good chance of succeeding.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇2
Wuthering Heights,the only fiction of Emily Bronte, was published in 1847. It is a story about love and revenge. After finishing the novel, most people including me would appreciate Heathcliff for his pure, simple and untamed love which would never change until death. On the other hand, it is difficult to understand his abnormal, callous and his love for Catherine. Heathcliff was an illiberal and unscrupulous person. He loved Catherine and was willing to give up everything for her. In the north of England where the wind blew hard, the black and dirty child, Heathcliff, fell in love with a little girl, Catherine who gave him love and also misery.
Wuthering Heights is an ideal heaven for those misanthropists to escape from the real life. In this beautiful but desolate world, Heathcliff as a stranger appeared. When he was 6 or 7 years old and at the edge of starving, Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of wuthering heights, saved him. Heathcliff’s childhood was unfortunate. Before he came to the wuthering heights, he was almost dead. When he was at Mr. Earnshaw’s home, he was bullied and maltreat by Mr. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley Earnshaw. However, at that moment, Catherine Earnshaw saved him, and everything became different. Catherine was a crazy and wild girl. The writer described as follows: Her spirits were always at high-water mark, her tongue always going--singing, laughing, and plaguing everybody who would not do the same. A wild, wicked slip she was. However, she was goodness and pretty. The relationship between them was developing under the lack of civilized education. Their life was tightly held together, they had to face Hindley. But their friendship broke when Catherine was 12 years old, when she met Edgar Linton a wealthy and handsome boy from Thrushcross Grange. Three years later, she agreed to marry Edger. In Heathcliff’s mind, it was Edgar who bore away his love. Thus, when he came back to wuthering heights and began his cruel revenge.
Catherine lost her childhood at the time when she started to consider her future. She totally knew that it was impossible to be together with Heathcliff. She had to find the future, a wealthy, handsome husband who could give her steady life and reputation while Heathcliff had nothing. But when she married Edgar, she didn’t feel happy at all. She remembered that she had betrayed Heathcliff and herself. Money and house brought her into nothingness. She began to cherish the memory of Heathcliff, cherished the little boy stood by her. There was no etiquette and standard but sincerity. In the wuthering heights, happiness was gone forever. Because of Hindley, Heathcliff lost the chance to learn and he was almost lost himself. Fortunately, Catherine did not give up him. He abandoned himself for his self-abased. In their love, even at that storming night, Heathcliff left. They never thought about their future, their life. Thus, shall we ask that love should be based on what? Catherine loved Edgar, but she also said to Nelly: you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars? whereas, if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise, and place him out of my brother"s power. Before the difficulty, she chose to confront. On the contrary, Heathcliff chose to escape, because he had no courage to overcome it. Catherine was 15 while Heathcliff was 16, they were children. They didn’t understand what love was. They just found the happiness they had in common.
We can suppose that if Heathcliff didn’t leave, and he lived with Catherine, were they happy? Were they at ease? What life did they live? Can they run crazily on the wild land? Catherine looked down upon Heathcliff’s cowardice, once she talked about Heathcliff to Isabella: Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. But she had never suspected her courage. She loved Heathcliff undoubtedly, but she was afraid to be with him. Heathcliff had questioned her: You teach me now how cruel you"ve been--cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Catherine? If they loved each other, why did cheat their heart? Compared with Catherine, is Heathcliff more forgivable for his insistence and self-abased?
In the end, Catherine died. She was 19, and Heathcliff was 20. However, the story was not end. After Catherine’s death, Heathcliff was not likable. His maniac revenge seemed no endless. He even took vengeance on their children. Is this love? Is this resentment? Did Heathcliff love Catherine more or he hate the world more? What did he revenge for? Does for Catherine or him? They tortured each other, but they still loved each other. We can not find out the answer. But we can know that at last, they finally stayed with each other and no one can take them apart. And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?" I said. Of dissolving with her, and being more happy still!" he answered. No matter how much misunderstanding, regret and pain they received before, now they rest in peace. Just like Catherine said: Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
When I finished reading this book and begin to chew the profound meaning and the essence in this book, I find that I have learned a lot of life truth. For my part, love is to learn tolerance. If you really fall in love with someone, you will understand if she or he can get happiness and have ever loved you, that is enough. Reading a classic is a really tired and joyful thing. When I am moved by the figure’s emotion, I will feel sad and also gain enlightenment. In addition, which moves me most is that it teaches me to keep the dignity of life and the heart of freedom. No matter how austere the challenge we meet, we should yearn for freedom.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇3
At first I will tell you the main plot about Wuthering Heights. The story is narrated by Lockwood, a gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw Family, who had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights. Described the love and enmity between Earnshaw and Linton’s family, especially Heathcliff and Catherine’s deeply love. Heathcliff is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw. Heathcliff is treated as Earnshaw’s own children, Catherine and Hindley. Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley after Earnshaw death and his lover Catherine marries Edgar Linton for many factors. This made Heathcliff mad, his destructive force is unleashed and his first victim is his beloved, Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine(Kathy). Edgar’s sister, whom he had married, flees to the south. Their son Linton and Kathy are married, but always sickly Linton dies. After that, Hareton, Hindley’s son and the young widow fall in love. Increasingly isolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine.
The story is wonderful, and the structure is also extremely excellent.The author Emily Bronte use a series of flashbacks and time shifts draws a powerful picture of this story. Because of its wonderful story, excellent structure and graceful language, the book left a deep impression on me.
From this book, we understand the deeply love and enmity. We find that the enmity always touched by deeply love at the end of the story, true feelings and true love always moved everyone. So we must treat others with true feelings.
That’s all I want to say about Wuthering Heights. It’s really a good book. Readers will really gain much from this book.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇4
Reading Report of The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea was written by an American writer named Ernest Hemingway.It has been translated into tens of languages, and the writer was so proud of his work. Santiago, the hero of the story, had gone eighty-four days without taking a fish back.At first, a boy named Manolion had been with him, but Santiago couldn’t catch even one fish.The boy had gone at his parents’ orders in a lucky boat which caught three good fish the first week, and the couple thought that it was definitely and finally bad to let their boy stay with the old fisherman.On Santiago’s eighty-fifth day of fishing, he went out alone, leaving the smell of the land behind and rowing out into the clean early morning smell of ocean.To his surprise, he caught a tuna which he had never seen before and it was hard to believe that the tuna was bigger than his boat.Later, the blood from the tuna left a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway, so fighting against sharks was unavoidable.The result was that sharks ate up all the meat of the tuna and Santiago only brought the tuna skeleton back.He was so tired that he slept deeply as soon as he got home, dreaming of lions. In this story, Santiago was an old and poor widow though he was good at fishing and had so much valuable experience.He only lived on fishing all his life.At long last, he just brought the skeleton back, you may think such a fisherman should be a loser, but this result didn’t mean failing.On the contrary, Hemingway used the skeleton which was the pillar of spirit to strengthen the meaning of the old man’s life.Santiago was described as a perfect person who never gave up.The boy named Manolion appeared in the beginning and at the end.Even during Santiago’s voyage, he always came to the poor old man’s mind.He was the only person who cared Santiago sincerely, trust Santiago absolutely, and the young boy wanted to be an inheritor of Santiago’s career.Hemingway not only told us the experience of fishing should be spread from generation to generation, but also expected us to admire, to learn from and to carry on the spirit of Santiago.The appearance of Manilion was not by chance, which was arranged by Hemingway.During Santiago’s long voyage, how much he wished the boy could have been with him to drive his loneline away.Youth is the symbol of energy and hope.Even an old man can be young inside.Lions appeared several times in Santiago’s dreams for they were living in his heart, which showed the spirit of Santiago would never be low. The coming of the sharks could not be avoided.They can be thought as attack which can swallow your succe and happine.The story tells me to face the problems happened in my life with a heart as wide as ocean.Though the old man was lonely, he was a traveler who walked on the road of realizing his ideals.But he was not alone at the moment, for his will was so firm.The Old Man and the Sea has won the Nobel Prize at last, which is a comfort to the writer.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇5
Main Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.
Despite I've not in my childhood yet, I still prefer reading fairy-tale stories.The tales, which accompany with me in my old days, often make me think of some precious experience and sensation which only belong to children.This summer I've review this kind of tale, which was published in 1940.It's the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de St-Exupery, The Little prince.
As many other fairy-tales, the outline of The Little prince is not very complex.“I”，the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara.In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612.The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet.In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.
On his all-alone journey, the little prince meets different kinds of people, which includes a king, a conceited man, a tippler, a busineman, a lamplighter and a geographer.From these people he gets a conclusion that the grown-ups are very odd.Following the instruction of the geographer, he descends in the Sahara, on the earth.
Traveling on the earth, the little prince, who sees a garden of five-thousand roses, is overcome with astonishment and sadne, as he considers his rose is unique in the universe before.At that time a fox appears.The fox, who tell the little prince about the meaning of the word “tame”，becomes his new friend.At the time to say farewell, the fox makes him know that his rose is unique because she is his rose and tamed by him.From that the little prince begins to treasure friendship and be responsible to his rose.
At the anniversary day of his descent of the earth, rejecting the pilot's advice, he goes back to his own planet by bite of a snake.“It's too far.I can not carry this body with me.It's too heavy.” he said.He tells his friend, the pilot, he must be responsible for his rose, so he has to go back.At the end the author doesn't tell us the ending directly.Maybe it's more significant for us to imagine, and for more, think over.
One of the important characters is the rose.Growing on the planet, she is very beautiful, but her coquetry and vanity suffer the little prince a lot.In spite of they love each other, he soon becomes unhappy.On the time of his departure, he just knows she certainly loves him.The character of the little prince actually represents the children, and their native thoughts and deeds.On the contrary, the inhabitants on the other planets, such as the king, the busineman and the conceited man, they also reflect the defects in the grown-up's world.The real theme of this fairy-tale with a little sadne, I gue, is the consequence of pure love and friendship in our lives, but not others “matters of consequence” of the grown-ups.
Unbelievable, this little book moved me a lot.I seldom think about the true meaning of love and life before.Well, now I can say, with my short sixteen-year's life experience, it's like the stars in the sky that lit my heart.The little prince is not only an ordinary fairy-tale for children, but also for grown-ups, and our teenagers.Neverthele, when I read this book, I feel a little sad – about ourselves, whom are losing more and more innocence.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇6
Recently, I accidentally opened a book called Wuthering heights.
It tells the story of a mountain villa. Abandon baby hesclive grew up in the mountains, but because the beloved person to marry and go away from home. Three years later, hesclive reappeared and embarked on a series of revenge plans.
When I first read the book. The content is very attractive to me, but I still think the book is a bit ugly. Because it involves too much hatred. But vaguely, I still feel the beauty of it. Although I found it after a fine taste. This book, this book is very attractive to me. Its beauty is reflected in hescliffe 's constant love, reflected in the beauty of Catherine 's love and Catherine 's life misfortune.
Hesclive, though so fierce in revenge, is also because of love. Because he didn 't finish listening to that half. He thought that his lover had violated him, and his grief would never have been so.
Catherine is so unfortunate, and so lucky. Unfortunately, when she was born, her mother died of childbirth. Her mother, hersclive 's lover. Catherine was forced to marry her cousin, the half-dead man, after she accidentally knocked down hesclive. Fortunately, she met hesclive adopted, his unwillingly uncle 's children. Four years older than her cousin - hadong. She fell in love with hadong. Later, hescliffe also died of miss Catherine 's mother - Katie. Katharine took back everything that belonged to her and married her cousin, bringing nelly, the old servant, back to thrush hill, never to Wuthering heights.
The book drew a satisfactory end to it.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇7
Published in 1847, WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural–and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily’s sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.
Even so, WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet–it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.
The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family–which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a “Gipsy” child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to “get into;” the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.
As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world–dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.
It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once–and those who do like it will return to it again and again.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇8
Scarlett ， a very personality figures ，the two mans she love ，neither does she know about.To her， I was pelled to admire， admire her strong and brave， admire her to lay down in the environment， farm workers previously suffered education， admire her to disregard the munity to create their own expression of the cause .She is in the whole story， all a person full of fighting will full of vitality . I appreciated most ， it is this " Tomorrow is another day of hers. " . Promising forever， full of fighting will ， will never give up， never desperate. I think I'm moved by her.So， whenever I meet difficulty， the mood is not good， I will tell oneself : " Tomorrow is another day. " 'Gone with the Wind' is absolutely a good book that is worth sampling repeatedly， the characters are graceful ， the plot rises and falls， exciting boldly and unconstrainedly， though the subjective factor because of the author among them ， the appraisal on U.S.A.'s Civil War is not objective and overall， but asto angle of literature， this one fine piece of writing generation definitely absolutely， worth visiting.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇9
As the saying goes, " famous for his bravery". Known from Wuthering heights, the plot twists and turns, and there is a gust of wind. The protagonist Heathcliff 's childhood is so sweet, although it is an orphan, but also won the Lao Zhuang Lord doubly love. But the past is different today, before that is ignorant and naive children, now is full of hate seeds of adults. Fate is unfair to him, the owner 's son often abused him as a wild child in the hours, but then Carrie comfort, willing to play with him. But then she pursued " money love". Let the boy who had complained become resentful here. Want to embrace the desire of recovery, until Harry tons, let him not learn no skill.
Don 't sow even hatred. Learn to be a man who can endure and be steadfast.
At home, I write homework as soon as I get home every day, I think homework is a part of fixed knowledge. But homework in writing is not necessarily smooth, sometimes the storm on the surface of the sea and the impact of the waves are inevitable, not timid, also not recklessly, to learn to use clever way through, rather than want to also don 't want to pull the alarm, looking for help, that 's not wisdom, but weak.
At school, the students are very fond of tug of war, this is a game of strength and perseverance. In the process, may be oneself too insist, and palms become scarred. Sometimes not out of weakness also for reducing their own damage.
People want to learn to give up, give up their own burden is not lighter? Patience, patience will succeed, don 't blindly want to revenge, so unlucky is yourself; People should learn to be steadfast, not like a ghost, but to walk forward on the ground, to the light. Counsel, is always a cloud, the mind to real, will accumulate some other people 's attention for yourself.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇10
When I read the book To Live， I know I have own a lot of happiness in this period. To Live allowed me to see the people’s suffering and hardship in old China. But the most important is the spirit that age gives to them.
To Live described Fugui’s life who lives in The Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. Fugui borns in a host family， when he was young， he often went outside gambling. So that in the end he spent all the property under the trap which others had designed. At that time， he had got married with his wife Jiazhen. One day， when he went out to borrow money for looking doctors for his parents， he was caught to join the army. Almost all the soldiers had died， but he struggled to live and luckly got together with his family， when his mother had gone and his daughter Fengxia had been a dumb because of illness. His family were very happy because of his ing back. For he had not been assigned to the landlord constituents， they lived a poor and happy life. Of the past with each passing day， his little son was going to middle school， but his disaster began again. His son lost his life for saving his classmate whose father is the mayor of the town. Backlog of the pain and frustration， he and his wi
fe as if had lost a lot and they nearly lost confidence of living. Fortunately， they have a sensible daughter， although she couldn’t talk， but she helped her parents go through the pains. Later Fengxia married to Erxi who is an honest man， but fate still made fun of this hard-working and simple girl， she died from giving birth. And then later， in the heavy blows， Fugui’s wife left him forever.
Life had lost all his family， leaving him， last remaining alive. I don’t know how I can experience his life in that age， his disease that he had to face， but I know Fugui had learnt to respect for life， be properly alive.
《呼啸山庄》英文读后感 篇11
Published in 1847,WUTHERING HEIGHTS was not well received by the reading public,many of whom condemned it as sordid,vulgar,and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure.It was not until 1850,when WUTHERING HEIGHTS received a second printing with an introduction by Emily's sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the great novels of English literature.
Even so,WUTHERING HEIGHTS continues to divide readers.It is not a pretty love story;rather,it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness.It is cruel,violent,dark and brooding,and many people find it extremely unpleasant.And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design,a sense of tremendous pity and great loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.The novel is told in the form of an extended flashback.After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff.And Catherine,daughter of the house,found in him the perfect companion:wild,rude,and as proud and cruel as she.But although Catherine loves him,even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting.But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way,setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature,a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations.Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable,both vicious and cruel,and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.As the novel coils further into alcoholism,seduction,and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone:Heathcliff,driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave,hearing her calling to him from the moors,escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade,so that she may never leave his mind until death itself.Yes,this is madness,insanity,and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.It is a stunning novel,frightening,inexorable,unsettling,filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe.Even if you do not like it,you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again.