『폭풍의 언덕』에 나타난 히스클리프의 성격묘사

A Study on Heathcliff's Characterization in Emily Brontê's Wuthering Heights

&nbsp;&nbsp;Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by Emily Bront？ in 1846. The literary world of Wuthering Heights is quite different from other novels in the Victorian Age. It is quite difficult for us to understand what Wuthering Heights is, as shown in the following statement about the work; "After 120 years of reaction and explication, there is still no basic core of agreement on how Wuthering Heights is structured or what it is about."<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In this novel "nature" is seen as a complex of spiritual forces, embodying all that can be apprehended of fate and the supernatural. Its working are beyond good and evil in the social and normal sense. Emily Bront？ makes no distinction between the natural and supernatural; her world is one. It is a spiritual world.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;For Emily Bront？ no human being is self-sufficient, and all suffering derives ultimately from isolation. Evil stems solely from separation, that is, from the denial of oneness and affinity. So Catherine confesses Nelly of her oneness with Heathcliff, and she cries; "I can"t live without my life, I can"t live without my soul." What is conveyed to us here is the sense of an affinity deeper than sexual attraction, something, which it is not enough to describe as romantic love.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Catherine and Heathcliff, portions of the flux of nature, children of rock and heath and tempest, strive to identify themselves as human, but disrupt all around them with their monstrous appetite for a inhuman kind of intercourse. The calm Catherine and Heathcliff have reached has spread back into the world to be tangible in the soft wind breathing through the grass and blowing through the open windows at Wuthering Heights. The glorious World they enter belongs to the world of nature in the middle of the Moor.