凯瑟琳爱情悲剧动因解析

The Cause of Catherine′s Love Tragety

凯瑟琳是《呼啸山庄》的女主角,凯瑟琳的爱是灵魂与肉体相脱离的情爱,充满不可调和的矛盾与冲突。她对希克厉的爱是精神之爱、灵魂之爱、自恋之爱,而对林敦的爱是肉体之爱、物化之爱、补偿之爱。凯瑟琳接受并爱着两个性格迥异的痴心汉,其对情爱的贪欲超过其心理承受的载荷,令其心理冲突绵延不辍。在两极爱欲的矛盾悖谬中,她忍受着精神的自我摧残,不只酿就了爱情悲剧,而且最终招致肉体的过早销亡。

Catherine is the part of heroine in Wuthering Heights.Catherine′s love,in essence,bears the feature of spiritual and physical separation,characterized by uncontrollable conflicts and contradictions.Her love for Heathcliff tends to be spiritual,psychic and narcissistic while for Linton physical,materialized and compensatory.Catherine accepts and loves two infatuated men whose personalities are different.The excessive possession of love is beyond the limits of her psychic endurance,which generates constant conflicts within her psyche.Engulfed in the two contradictory and controversial passions,she has to endure the spiritual self-torture which tends to be the principal cause of her love tragedy.Eventually she is atoned for her own conducts and meets her doomed fate.