| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 外國語文學系 === 88 === For more than a century after its first appearance in 1847, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has been recognized as a controversial book. Among many disputes over Wuthering Heights, one of them is the recognition of overwhelming power delivered by this book. Emily Bronte employed several conflicts between extreme polarities, and great power erupts from these conflicts. This thesis intends to explore the extreme representations in Wuthering Heights, since they are the origin of the power of this book.
Emily Bronte’s biographical background will come first in this thesis, since her life also presented several examples of extreme measures used by a strong-minded individual. Following the introduction to the author, I will begin to discuss extreme representations in Wuthering Heights. The drastically opposite extremes employed in this book include: Heaven & Hell, Nature & Culture, Love& Hate, Life& Death, Male & Female. Each extreme is elaborated through the representations of geographical background, characters, and themes of this book. Every extreme has a counter-polarity, and I will present how the collisions of extremes create power for this book.
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