An Analysis of Love Between Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

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Wuthering Heights; love; Heathcliff; Catherine; ethical literary criticism

Abstract

Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Bronte, one of the famous Bronte sisters, tells a tragic story of love and hate between two main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff. In this book, the hero Heathcliff not only has a sincere and passionate love for the heroine Catherine, but also has strong ambition in jealousy and revenge. The contradictory and complicated tragic love story between Heathcliff and Catherine makes Wuthering Heights become a masterpiece in English literature. Using the theory of ethical literary criticism, this paper analyzes the love tragedy of these two characters and expounds the causes of the tragedy on the basis of studying Heathcliff’s ethical identity.

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AU  - Xiujuan Wang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/07/19
TI  - An Analysis of Love Between Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities, Wisdom Education and Service Management (HWESM 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 369
EP  - 373
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-068-8_46
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