1. Introduction to the story
The origin of the story is that the hero Heathcliff was adopted by the kind old Mr Earnshaw when he was a child, but was insulted by the jealousy of the adopted owner's son Hendley as a gypsy outcast. The owner's daughter, Kathy, fell in love with the male lead. After the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Hendley began to use Heathcliff as a servant to humiliate and physically punish him, and at the same time match his sister Keith with the rich Edgar Linton. Casey scorns the weak Edgar because of his love for the hero. When the two were about to elope, Casey was injured and was sent to Edgar to recuperate. After returning, Casey became a little ladylike, but the male protagonist began to have an emotional grudge against her. After the male protagonist was severely beaten, she asked the female protagonist to elope again, but the female protagonist began to waver. She was considering whether to give up her figure and her future noble status and leave home. She even told the male protagonist that she had a relationship with Edgar. The combination is able to free the male protagonist from his brother's control, which completely irritates the male protagonist and leads to his running away from home. The male protagonist who was insulted by Hendley and lost his lover's heart began to be filled with hatred. Three years later, the wealthy male protagonist chose to appear at the female protagonist's wedding, and used money to destroy Hendley, who was alcoholic because his wife died in childbirth, and adopted his child Hareton within three months. At the same time, after learning that the heroine was in bed with Edgar, he was furious and chose to marry Edgar's sister Isabella. The pregnant female protagonist stopped eating and drinking because she could not bear this series of blows. During a heavy rain, she tried to return to the cave where she and the male protagonist had been playing since childhood. Pneumonia, and finally died of dystocia after seeing the male protagonist for the last time. At this time, the male protagonist was on the verge of collapse, but the seeds of revenge seemed to continue to grow. After Edgar's death, he united his weak son with Edgar's daughter and took Edgar's estate, whose son also died of weakness. At the end of the story, the two young men of Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Hareton, fell in love, and the man who was still immersed in his love for the heroine finally chose to shoot himself. At the end of the movie, the two young people left Wuthering Heights, and the souls of the hero and heroine finally gathered and watched them leave quietly...
2. The love of the hero and heroine
what is love? This is always confusing. In the film, it is also a very real problem now, that is, how to choose between love and bread. The female protagonist loved the male protagonist deeply, but in the end she chose Mr. Linton, who was more prominent at the time. When the male protagonist proposed to elope for the second time, her hesitant answer was: "I want to let go of my body, let go of my noble identity in the future, and go with you." Obviously she chose bread, and she also gave it a high-sounding reason "If I marry him, I will have the money to let you get rid of my brother". Her selfishness not only makes her lover run away from home, but also plunges herself into the infinity of a loveless marriage. She gave up the male protagonist for a noble life, but her strong possessiveness towards the male protagonist made her miserable after knowing that the male protagonist married Isabella, and finally died of depression. After having a rich life, she can openly embarrass her husband and take it for granted that I still love him deeply. The mentality of having it both ways eventually ruined her and the male protagonist, and also ruined the poor Linton siblings. As for the male protagonist, he feels inferior to his gypsy outcast status from beginning to end, and even if he has the love of the female protagonist, he cannot let him give up all the hatred in his heart. This poor selfish man thought that the whole world should be responsible for not getting the love of the heroine. He kept saying that he loved the heroine but took revenge on the heroine and her family in the most extreme way. He must have known the wedding date of the heroine in advance. What he chose was not to prevent it but to make it happen and then use it as an excuse to avenge her family. The reason is love, because I love you. As his wife Isabella said in the film "I'm glad I didn't get your love, your love will kill people". Maybe what the original book describes is the spirit of the hero and heroine who can give up everything for love, but this kind of love is not something I can understand. In the film, love can be an excuse for the protagonist to do anything, including revenge on his lover, including deception and hatred. The heroine marries another man in the name of love, and still hopes to have the most complete love of the hero. The hero takes revenge in the name of love, and even all the relatives of the heroine. Such love is confusing. In reality, it is not denied that love is selfish. How many people choose the latter between love and bread, and after choosing the latter, how many people cherish their love day and night like the heroine?
In fact, when I was young, I was too naive about feelings. When I watched movies, I always wondered why two people who loved each other showed various reasons for not being together when they could be together, and tried their best and even sacrificed when they could not be together. All kinds of good people around. In particular, every time some Virgin Mary chooses to carry a misunderstanding and leave silently and then various misunderstandings and grievances, I am very puzzled. Isn't love what two people face together when they encounter things? Therefore, every time I see two men and two women become black, I can understand why you can hurt anyone around you in the name of love and not allow others to take revenge?
3. Tragic supporting roles
In the film, the tragedy is not only the hero and heroine, but also the supporting roles who suffered because of their "great" love, namely the two brothers and sisters Linton, who are the greatest people in the film. And this greatness has become a tragedy because of the selfishness of the hero and heroine. Brother Edgar chose to marry her three years after seeing the heroine meet again and again. The younger sister always understood the love in the hero's heart but was still willing to give up everything for him to run away with him. Their giving and receiving cannot be balanced. One is the betrayal of the heroine's death, and the other is the betrayal of the hero's life. The male protagonist said to Isabella, "In the past four months, I tried to make myself fall in love with you, but now I find that I still can't do it." This is the most chilling line in the film. Many times, like the two brothers and sisters in the film, we want to believe that you have paid for a relationship. If you persist, there will be hope, and the other party will be moved. In the TV series, there are also examples of Yuan Xiangqin's hard pursuit of Jiang Zhishu's final happy ending. Ah, hope, only I know all the sufferings in it, but in fact, I have never understood it in my heart, but if I feel that there is hope, I must persevere. As for the final outcome, although there are good and bad, no one can judge whether it is worth it. For example, in the film, the younger sister finally understands that she chooses to give up, while the elder brother seems to have failed to resent the heroine from beginning to end. There is only one scene when he wants to drive away the heroine, but the heroine says that I am pregnant with your child, and it is very natural. I really can't understand what our author thinks.
4. When is the time for retribution
There is also one of the greatest characters in the film, Mr. Earnshaw, who unconditionally adopted the male protagonist and hoped to cultivate him into a gentleman. After his son showed hostility, he even sent his young son away. He also showed great encouragement when he learned that the male protagonist loved his daughter. The destruction of all this began with the death of old Mr Earnshaw and the return of the jealous Hendley. The torture of the male protagonist by Hendley, who was originally aloof, finally made the seeds of hatred for the male protagonist take root. After losing love, revenge is the only support for the male protagonist. So after he took revenge on the people he could take revenge on one by one, he found that he had no meaning to live anymore, and eventually became eccentric and shot himself.
When will the grievances be repaid, the heart of tolerance will make a person truly happy, and jealousy and hatred will only blind people and eventually lead to destruction. When Hendley tortured the male protagonist, he would not have thought that he would be slaughtered in the future. The male protagonist also lost a lot in his mad revenge. He lost his lover, lost his son, and lost his spiritual world. Revenge is quick for a while, but the reward will never be happiness.
The story ends with a comedy of two young people. Catherine is innocent, Hareton knows how to be grateful even though he has no cultural upbringing, and he is the only one who really cried after the death of the male protagonist. In order to protect Catherine, she will also resist the male protagonist. The ending of the two may be the kindness of the two, or it may be because of their understanding of the true meaning of love. Gratitude and tolerance, remembrance and forgetting are precisely what are missing in the sharp love of the hero and heroine. Perhaps this is the true meaning of love.
I don't like the suffocating love between the hero and heroine, selfish enough to destroy myself and others. What is true love, it may be related to your own choice, but please don't do all kinds of things that hurt others in the name of love, be it lovers, family or friends, love is selfish, but not destructive !
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