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《呼啸山庄》中希斯克利夫与埃德蒙.丹斯的比较

Comparisons between Heathcliff and Edmond
Dantes in love and Hatred
Abstract:                                                                                                 
I write the article to try to show the truth that love is great, so it can defeat hatred .I prove this from the following three aspects through comparisons between Heathcliff and Edmond Danes in love and hatred. According to their names and their fates and tasks given by writers, I show people that Heathcliff is devil himself by nature while Edmond is a representative of ordinary people. Besides, according to the differences and similarities of their love, I show people that   Heathcliff’s love is narrow, selfish, and  twisted  while Edmond 's is wide, selfishnless, and  natural; Nevertheless, both of their love is deep in addition to their same failure and ending. Whatsmore, according to the differences and similarities of their hatred, I show people that Heathcliff 's  hatred is stronger than Edmond’s , so when he takes revenge, he is more ferocious and savage than Edmond; however, they both have the same hatred caused by similar reasons ,and find the same way to let it out and the same satisfactory ending for it.Finally ,I give my conclusion as is stated above that the greatness of love can defeat hatred .  
Key word:ruthless, cruel, brutal, avenge, revenge, similarity, difference.


The writers,who mould Heathcliff and Edmond Dantes in their respective  novels, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, live in two diverse countries in the same century—19th century . Yet during this period literary trends of the two countries are quite different. One is in critical realism while the other is in romanticism. But at his thirties Alexander Dumas diverts his attention to historical novels, one of which is The Count of Monte Cristo. Thus what is described in the two novels is reflections of realism  including the love and hatred, which they picture. Nevertheless, due to the different literary trends and the two writers’different writing styles, Heathcliff’s love and hatred portrayed by Emily Bronte, which are exaggerated with color of romance, go to extremes while  Edmond   Dantes’, which embody  colour of lengend, finally return to the normal levell.
However, the two heroes created by them in their novels set in two different kinds of  backgrounds are completely irrelevant and greatly different after rough reading but considering their miserable experiences which they go through and bad treatments which they suffer from, they have many similarities and differences in their love and hatred. Whatsmore, owing to their fates and tasks arranged by their writers, if you have further study, you will find it true that the two heroes have many similarities and differences in love and hatred.
As far as we know, the name of Heathcliff is made up of two parts—heath and cliff. Heath means area of flat uncultivated land, especially one covered with shrubs or moorland while cliff indicates steep and usually high face of rock, especially at the edge of the sea. These two things are quite dangerous and even fatal things in Nature. So Heathcliff is doomed to be the symbol of the tyrant Nature. This is fully showed in the following three statements. One is when he was dying, he claims himself:“I’ve done no justice, and I repent nothing”.(1)  How drazen and shameless he is when he says these words, which  deny  what  he has done  to  others ,such as  Linton,  Hareton,  little  Catherine,  and so on. The other is when Nelly visits Isabella in the Wuthering Heights, he mutters after he forces Isabella upstairs:“I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails”!(2) From his these words , we can see how cruel and ruthless he is! He is completely a typical tyrant who  wants  to hold his small world tightly and suppress the citizens  of  it,  who are even  regarded as worms by him . Simutaneously, these words are a threaten out of  his  innermost  heart to the  people of  the whole world. Another is a question from Isabella’s letter to Nelly, it goes like this“Is Mr Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? …But I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married…”. (3) This is  a  voice from an innocent and delicate person, who  is  torrured  and suppressed  by  Heathcliff.  So at this statement, we can call him devil. Yeah, we can call him like this due to the three statements. In fact the following facts further prove this, such as Mr Lockwood's first visit in bad weather, his first meeting with his son, his trick on the marriage of his son and little Cathering when Linton is dying. So to speak, he is innately brutal and ruthless. In virtue of his this nature, he establishes Wuthering Heights as an earthly hell full of hatred where humanity is frozen deeply, even the dogs full of hostilities. So under the leadership of him, withering heights becomes an absurdly unhuman and indifferent world. In short, he is simply sultan himself; he is a symbol of hatred. While Edmond Danes whose name has no special meaning  but is just an ordinary name is born a representative of ordinary men with all the good qualities of them, such as kindness, naivety , honesty, loyalty, and so on. Nevertheless, his late revenge on his foes is against all these  good  qualities, you may think. But in my opinion it is any ordinary man’s respond to the sharp changes from the outside world and meanwhile the changes are caused by others’ trick out of envy. It is due to their trick that he is sent into the Chateau d’If and imprisoned here in the dungeon for 14 years without sunlight, fresh air, even the basic right as a man—freedom. Here he first feels disappointed, then despaired, and even finally thinks of death for he is completely cut off from the outside world and his own counterpart. Before these sufferings, he possesses the dreams that he can be captain of Pharaoh because of Mr  Morel’s promise and his beloved Mercedes is being his wife. Instead of them, he has a nightmare that he is placed into Chateau d’If  as a dangerous political prisoner. His two beautiful dreams are crushed by their trick. The great change really makes him fall from heaven to hell. So comparing with Heathcliff’s  his revenge on his enemies is normal respond of any ordinary man who at least has a little feelings.
Fortunately, in the end both of their love and hatred find a satisfactory outlet. Heathcliff finds hope in their descendants and eventually his soul unites with Catering’s in heaven while Edmond Danes leaves Paris with the young image of his betrothed and turns over a new leaf. The pleasant end results from their abandonment of hatred whose drive comes from love. This shows us  that love is eternal yet hatred is temporary. Moreover, love can defeat hatred is what justice can do evil.
    In addition to their destinies and commissions given by the writers according to their names, they have their  own expressions  in love and hatred in the novels.
       With regard to their love, generally, Heathdiff's is rather narrow, selfish, and twisted but Edmond's like most ordinary men’s  is wide, selfishless and natural. Why?
    Because in his mind, love means occupation and exclusion. We can know this from his complaint about the poorly limited time when he and Catherine stay together ,and his hatred, and his late revenge on Linton because of his marriage with Catherine. As a result, we think his love for Catherine is shallow and selfish. And meanwhile  his love is deformed, too. This embodies in  his acts — bribe the sexton to remove  the coffin of Linton in order to separate Linton and Catherine after his death and even try  to open Catherine 's coffin so as to hold Catherine's corpse in  his arms but for the sexton's warnings and his visions. These two acts are beyond our understanding and imagination; and they are quite absurd and unreasonable. This is because his love is just confined to Catherine but not to others, even his benefactor and his own only son. However, we must confess that his love for Catherine is deep  out of his inner heart. We can know this from his obedience to Catherine in everything  but not to his benefactor, his indifference to his degradation and heavy beating caused  by Hindley so long as  he can stay with Catherine, and his desire to change himself to cater to Catherine and efforts made for this. His love towards Catherine is so deep that when Catherine died on that night, he keeps the same gesture for one night. Moreover, owing to her death, eventually he who only has a stone heart becomes a wild beast. As for Edmond  Dantes , he not only expresses  his love towards  his dearest,  such as his father and his betrothed ,but also to others. Even if he suffers a lot on account of spiteful men's scheme, he still shows his love to others except his persecutors. So we say his love is wider than Heathcliff. To Mercedes, he owns complex feelings in his heart after his visit to his old neighbour following his successful escape and search for fortune. Especially when he hears Mercedes marries Fernand only after his arrest 18 months later,

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