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I. Short Introduction to Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights
“Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone,①” commented Charlotte Brontë in a Biographical Notice of Ellis and Action Bell that she published after the deaths Emily and Anne. Emily Brontë, gradually, was separated from the society of 19th century, gifted with fantasies and imaginations which enabled her to create the great novel Wuthering Heights that seems impossible to readers of all ages. Her experience of life as shown in her poems had been full of loneliness and isolation, but 本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供full of independence as her lines show “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: /it vexes me to choose another guide.”
Emily Brontë, when a child received her haphazard education at home instead of at school. And her wooden soldiers and books of Shakespeare, and Byron, Scott etc, greatly enriched her mind. Born in 1818, Emily Brontë was the fifth child of a clergy man, yet she was the best well-known for her genius among Brontë sisters. However, she was not recognized until her short life of 30 years came to an end. Her novel Wuthering Heights depicts the proceedings of love developing into hate, which can be shown completely in Heathcliff’s part. His love is powerful, formidable on one hand, and dangerous on the other. After Cathy’s death, his love becomes the motivated hurt to the second generation. Hareton, obviously, is definitely an edition of Heathcliff. By creating the character of Hareton, the writer perfectly handed down the love between the first generation on to the second generation. So the gothic romance of the first generation ends up with warm ending—the union of Hareton and little Catherine. There is a touch of unutterable sadness and long-waiting happiness. Hareton, with the potential development of his capabilities, yielding to the calls of love, is gradually put back into the position he should be in.
II. Hareton’s Growing Up and Restoration of Character
A . Growing Up
Hareton, with his childhood days doomed, never feels or sees how great the parental love is, instead he is both mentally and physically tortured and twisted. Deliberately dismaying his younger days, the writer gives him enough sufferings that a child who was ever brought into this world can endure. Hareton’s mother dies of weakness shortly after she gives birth to Hareton. Locked in great agony of his wife’s death, Hindley--Hareton’s father gives no love to anybody, not even his own son. He comes home, always drunken, losing his rights over Wuthering Heights to Heathcliff little by little. On catching his father’s sight, Hareton is usually scared beyond measure as if he met a ghost. It is even worse when his father happens to touch him. Hareton, therefore, is ignored and somewhat abandoned; in the mean time, and he is living his life like a foundling with everything taken away from him. Nevertheless, the luckiest thing that could ever happen to Hareton is that he is fortunately put into the care and shelter of the female servant Nelly Dean, who performs her service at Wuthering Heights loyally and whole-heartedly. Nelly is irreplaceable when her protection is badly needed. Hareton is almost in hiding each time when his father’s approaching home is got known. Of course, it’s very unlucky of Hareton to have a father like this one, but, the best of all, to have a good servant of Nelly who is ready to give help and p