《呼啸山庄》:一部女性哥特小说 [10]
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关键词:《呼啸山庄》女性哥特小说魔鬼式人物梦魇Wuthering HeightsFemale Gothic noveldevilish charactersnightmares
o drawback my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melanc
oly voice sobbed, ‘Let me in-Let me in!’ … Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its waist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes; still it wailed, ‘Let me in!’ and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.”[29] It is here that Emily introduces the supernatural into the story. Catherine is the only ghost in Mr. Lockwood’s nightmare. The nightmare is a masterpiece of suspense. Nightmare is the common vehicle used in Gothic novels. Most Gothic novels are inspired by dreams. This is particularly true of Emily’s Wuthering Heights. There is one occasion when Edgar confronts Catherine and tells her she must choose between him and Heathcliff, she flies into a rage, locks the door and for two days she remains there, touching no food. Her psychic conflicts rise to the climax. “Tossing about, she increased her feverish bewilderment to madness, and tore the pillow with her teeth … ‘That’s a turkey’s,’ she murmured to herself; ‘and this is a wild duck’s; and this is a pigeon’s’…Bonny bird; wheeling ever our heads in the middle of the moor …This feather was picked up from the heath, the bird was not shot; we saw its nest in the winter, full of little skeletons. Heathcliff set a trap over it, and the old one dare not come.”[30] Catherine’s appalling hysteria and these ravings seem to show that she is in the state of delirium. Actually, the daydream-like surrealistic description unfolds her psychic state of struggle against anguish and fantasy. Her heart has drifted away to the old good days when she and Heathcliff are together. This passage of Catherine’s disordered ravings suggests the heroine has suffered severely from the anguish just right for the occasion. By applying this vehicle, what Emily Bront? feels like expressing is not only to create an atmosphere of terror but also to establish the emotion suspense, and then set up a unique structure for the whole story, which embodies the color of Female Gothic at the same time. 4. Conclusion It is common that many critics take Gothic novels as black novels. In particular, they hold high prejudice to those who write in this style. There is no doubt that Emily Bront? is regarded as a writer out of the mainstream of the novels in the 19th century. Her style is clear and simple but charged with tremendous vitality. She does not write for moral and social effect as Charles Dickens does. She writes for the rhythm of her sentences and the exact choice of word conveys her meaning explicitly. The style is so condensed, like that of a poet that every word must be read, or some vital point will be missed. The smaller object or snatch of conversation has some part in the whole structure. For her, the use of Gothic is not just to produce a terrifying atmosphere and make readers sick like the Gothic novels, but set up a more perfect structure and then show us the complicated psychology of the characters. By portraying the devilish characters and the terrifying nightmare, Emily Bront? finds a new way to express feelings—Female Gothic. She pays more attention to the nature of protagonists and holds that there is no definite borderline between the good and the evil. Her boundless imagination and realistic depiction serve better for the portrayal of the characters. Inheriting Gothic tradition in her writing, she develops it
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