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一个好人(全英文)勃朗特姐妹生平轶事及作品背景解析

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2021-01-19 01:05
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2021年1月19日发(作者:英语小故事带翻译)
探访英国文学之勃朗特姐妹:
Reading sisters' imagination
“The Young Men’s Magazine” MCT
品读勃朗特姐妹的想象世界。

词数 499 建议阅读时间 8分钟
Imagine four little children: three
sisters and a brother. They are alone in a
large old house, miles from anywhere. The
weather outside is stormy, or “wuthering”
(呼啸的) as local people call it. There’s no
one home but a servant in the kitchen below.
Their mother is dead and their father, a
priest (牧师), is out seeing the people who go to his church. But even when he is at
home, he is distant and serious. They play, like all children play, but with a passion (热
情) and imagination that is rare and remarkable.
The children’s names were Charlotte, Emily and Anne; their brother was called
Branwell. They lived 200 years ago in a little place called Haworth in West Yorkshire
in the north of England. Three of them became famous as adults, and even more after
their (sadly early) deaths. The Bronte sisters, as they are known, made a mark on the
literature of their country. Their two most famous novels, Charlotte’s Jane Eyre and
Emily’s Wuthering Heights, have been copied by a thousand other writers and read by
millions in almost every language that people speak. April 21 marked the 200th
anniversary of Charlotte’s birth.
In 2011, an amazing discovery was made that takes us back to the large creaky
(破旧的) house that stood 200 years ago. It is a very small notebook called “The
Young Men’s Magazine”. The auctioneer (拍卖商) who sold it said that it was half the
size of a credit card (信用卡). On its 19 pages there are thousands of words – 4,000 of
them to be exact. The “magazine” has made-up advertisements (广告), news items,
poems and stories in it. It shows the imagination of those children who, cut off from
the world, were forced to invent their own.
When they get together, all young children play at inventing their own worlds.
For most, these worlds are rather normal: doctors and nurses, soldiers and the like.
This 200-year-old document (文件) shows that this was not the case with the Brontes.
The imaginations of the Brontes were far larger than those of the average child. “The
Young Men’s Magazine”, as the notebook is called, has stories, news and poems, even
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made-up advertisements, which show the great creativity the sisters had as adults.
If we think about how Emily, Charlotte and Ann lived, we can imagine the forces
that pushed them to be creative. They lived away from others in a lonely part of
Yorkshire in the north of England. With no mother and a father who wasn’t with them,
who could they turn to but each other? What else did they have other than their
imaginations? The childhood they spent learning and playing together led to their
famous novels and poems. That is where The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre and
Wuthering Heights were born.
Questions to reflect on:
How did the Brontes sisters and brother spend their children? In what why did the
young ages relate to the works of the sisters?
______________________________________________ _______________________
_______________________ ______________________________________________
What can we find from the so-called “The Young Men’s Magazine”?
_____________________________ ________________________________________
______ __________________________________________________ _____________
Novel shows passion
《呼啸山庄》:情感浓烈的杰作。词数 406 建
议阅读时间 6分钟
Heathcliff and Catherine’s love is passionate
but doomed.
The one and only novel by Emily Bronte is one
of the strangest and most disturbing in the history of
English literature. Indeed, Wuthering Heights (1847)
was too much for the book’s first readers. One
reviewer didn’t hold back on his feelings: “We know
nothing in our fictitious literature … which presents
such shocking pictures of the worst forms of
humanity (人性).”
Today we may not agree with these thoughts on the novel, but reading it we can
see how some readers in the 19th century might have reacted. There is violence,
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drunkenness (酒醉), kidnapping (诱拐) and much, much more. But there is also
passion, whether it is the passion of hate or of love.
Speaking of love, Wuthering Heights is famously the love story of Catherine and
Heathcliff. Catherine is one of Mr. Earnshaw’s two children. They live in Wuthering
Heights high in the Yorkshire countryside, a place that is similar to where Emily lived.
Heathcliff is an orphan(孤儿) boy who comes into the house as a worker.
He and Catherine are always together as children. They spend a lot of time
getting into trouble on the moors together. Their relationship is so strong that they say
more than once that they are each other. Although old Mr. Earnshaw loves Heathcliff,
Catherine’s brother Hindley hates him.
Still, it is not Hindley so much as social structure (结构) that ruins Heathcliff and
Catherine’s love. The other “great house” of the novel is Thrushcross Grange. It is
home to the well-to-do Edgar Linton and his sister Isabella.
Catherine falls in love with Edgar, or rather falls in love with an idea of him.
Edgar is very attractive to the snob (势利小人) in her. She even tells Nelly, the
housekeeper and the woman who mainly tells the story, that it would “degrade” her to
marry Heathcliff. So, Catherine marries Edgar, but her separation from her natural
partner causes her to get sick and eventually die. Meanwhile, Healthcliff marries
Isabella out of revenge and treats her with great cruelty.
Heathcliff comes to a sad, bitter end, fitting the way he has lived his life. But
there is hope for the children of the novel. Hareton, the son of Hindley, and Cathy, the
daughter of Catherine, are planning to get married when the story ends.

Romance like fight
感受简·爱的人格魅力。
词数 489 建议阅读时间 8分钟
Charlotte Bronte’s most famous novel Jane
Eyre (1847) is hardly less wild than her sister
Emily’s Wuthering Heights. It has something very
scary in it that any horror film director would be
proud to put on screen. In the attic (阁楼) of the
hero, Mr. Rochester, there is a mad woman locked
up. It is Rochester’s wife. Bronte keeps this secret
as closely as Rochester, until the prisoner gets her
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