由“爱”导致的毁灭——简评《呼啸山庄》的主人公希克厉

Destruction Caused by "Love" —— Brief Comments on the Hero Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

《呼啸山庄》是一部伟大的作品,但直到20世纪以后,才逐渐被人们认可乃至称道。希克厉和卡瑟琳的爱是全书的灵魂,这是一种狂风暴雨般的感情,它给人慰藉,也可以毁灭一切。在分析人物时,我们只有摆脱了惯常的是非善恶的伦理标准,去挖掘产生和形成这种个性的原因,才有可能更客观更全面的评价他。

Wuthering Heights is a great masterpiece,but it is not accepted and praised by people until the twentieth century.The love between Heathcliff and Catherine is the soul of this book.It is a burst of violent emotion.This love soothes people,but can also destroy everything.When analyzing a character,we can only evaluate him objectively and comprehensively by getting rid of our habitual ethical standard of right or wrong,and good and evil,and finding out the real reason in causing and forming his personalities.