篇一：呼啸山庄英文读后感
Between Love and hatred -----on Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights told the story happened between two old families, the Earnshawn family living in Wuthering Heights and the Linton family living in Thrushcross Grange. The story began when old Mr. Earnshawn one day took home an orphan who he adopted on his way to Liverpool. He named the boy Heathcliff. From the very beginning, Mr. Earnshawn’s son Hindley hated Heathcliff for he shared Mr. Earnshawn’s love. Hindley often beat Heathcliff. Though Heathcliff never complained, quiet anger grew inside. On the contrary, Mr. Earnshawn’s daughter Catherine became Heathcliff’s close friend soon after his arrival. They played together and grew up together. As time went by, their affection towards each other became increasingly deep. Years later, Old Mr. Earnshawn passed away.
Hindley became the head of the family. He began to abuse Heathcliff, treated him as a servant and forbade Catherine from being together with him. Heathcliff sliently tolerated all these insults, but inside his heart anger turned into extreme hatred, which made his character more twisted. Then, an accident happened. One evening, Catherine and Heathcliff slinked into Thrushcross Grange to have fun. Unfortunately, they were discovered and Catherine was bitten by a dog. The master of Thrushcross Grange Mr. Linton drove away Heathcliff and kept Catherine to recover from the wound for 5 weeks. During her stay at Thrushcross Grange, Catherine became friends with Mr. Linton’s son Edgar and daughter Isabella. The brother and sister not only took good care of Catherine but also taught her good manners which changed her from a vulgar girl into a graceful lady.
However, at the same time Catherine’s affection towards Heathcliff also underwent a subtle change. Although she knew she still loved Heathcliff very much, she came to feel it a shame to marry him, a servant. When Edgar, a handsome wealthy kind but sheepish young man proposed to her, she betrayed her true feelings and accepted the proposal. Hearing the news of Catherine’s engagement by chance, Heathcliff left angrily and sadly. Three years later, Catherine married Edgar and led a peaceful and happy life.
But the happiness ended when Heathcliff suddenly came back. He had made his fortune and acted like a gentleman. Catherine was quite delighted and wanted her husband and Heathcliff to be friends, but Heathcliff came back only to take revenge for the happiness and love he lost. Heathcliff gambled with Hindley who had been lost in alcohol after his wife’s death and tricked him out of money. In this way Heathcliff became the master of Wuthering Heights. Besides, when Heathcliff found Edgar’s sister Isabella was foolishly admiring his appearance and wealth, he deceived the poor girl and persuaded her to run away with him. Angry with a fight between Edgar and Heathcliff, Catherine went on a hunger strike and became ill. At that time she was already pregnant. Although Edgar looked after her extremely carefully, Catherine’s health condition just went from bad to worse. Finally, after she gave birth to a baby girl who was also named Catherine, she died in Heathcliff’s arms, wearing a smile.
During the following 16 years, Hindley, Isabella and Edgar died in succession. Nevertheless, although he was for long soaked in the misery of losing Catherine, Heathcliff’s hatred did not fade. He turned to take revenge on the next generation. He taught Hindley’s son Hareton to be rude. He tricked Edgar’s daughter little Catherine into marrying his own son Linton Heathcliff, with the intrigue that since Little Linton suffered from constant illness and was dying, he would be in possession of Thrushcross Grange once his son died. At that time he would be able to do whatever he wanted and took revenge on anybody. But when the time came, he suddenly realized that revenge didn’t make him happier but more miserable. He lost the interest of destroying the next generation and approved of little Catherine remarrying Hareton. The two later lived a happy life together. In the end, on a cold and rainy night, Heathcliff ended his own life tragically.
But it was said that after his death, people often saw two spirits haunting near Wuthering Heights. And the two spirits looked just like Heathcliff and Catherine. From my point of view, the theme of Wuthering Heights is stormy love and hatred, just as the book title suggests. It is beyond doubt displayed most thoroughly by the hero Heathcliff. On the one hand, He loved Catherine so much that she was the whole world to him. Losing Catherine equaled losing everything. He couldn’t free himself from misery for even a single minute after Catherine’s death. On the other hand, he hated Hindley and Edgar so much that seeing them suffering was not enough. He even felt like torturing the next generation. Another character with strong love and hatred was Hindley. Heathcliff once remarked that Hindley’s wife was the only person who loved Hindley. Apparently Hindley thought so and returned all his love to his wife. Thus, when his wife died in childbirth, he had nobody to love but everybody to hate, including himself.
Unlike Heathcliff who expressed his hatred by taking revenge on others, Hindley poured the hatred on himself by indulging in alcohol. He even didn’t bother to continue hating Heathcliff and destroying him, he chose to bring himself to distruction. Both Heathcliff and Hindley were eventually devoured by their own strong love and hatred. As far as I am concerned, I do not appreciate the stormy love and hatred. The one I appreciate is Edgar, the man who also had deep love but expressed it like running stream. His love for Catherine was not necessarily less than Heathcliff’s and he was more sensible. He loved Catherine so he proposed to her, took good care of her, had a great fear of upsetting her and suffered greatly seeing his dear wife troubled. His love was like the gentle breeze that makes people feel comfortable and never smothered. Though he met the similar fate as Hindley, he never abandoned himself. He gave his love to their daughter, while never forgetting Catherine. Of course, Edgar also had hatred.
He had a thousand reasons to hate Heathcliff, the person who got the true love of his wife, who deceived his naive sister, who indirectly led to his wife’s death. However, Edgar vented his hatred not even once. He did as he said: punishment of the wicked belongs to God, we should learn to forgive. We all have love and hatred in our heart, more or less, weak or strong. However, we should never turn them into devastating storm which will not only hurt others but ourselves. We may find the best way out by learning from Edgar to properly love, to forget hatred and to forgive.
篇二：呼啸山庄英文读后感
Thoughts or reflections on reading Wuthering Heights
The book was written by Emily Bronte, it published in 1847.But at that time, it seemed to hold little promise, selling very poorly and receiving only a few mixed reviews. I found this in our school library, I chose this book because the title attracted me. The book is structured around two parallel love stories, the first half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In the story, the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, represent opposing worlds and values.
I spent twenty days reading this book. After reading this book, I felt for Heathcliff at first. Heathcliff begins his life as a homeless orphan on the streets of Liverpool, and then he tyranni
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