Space And Humanity--The Humanity Of Hero Heathcliff In Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte in 1847, during the early days it was not taken in and even seriously depreciated by the temporal critics. The subsequent one hundred years the attitude of reviews changed dramatically. All kinds of literature school gave diverse comprehensions and illustrations. Since the twentieth century, along with people's concerning about the topic of human nature, the artistic originality of Wuthering Heights was received great critical acclaim. The judgment and evaluation about social and artistic achievements of this novel is rising. Emily explored her overriding concern human nature. In her novel hero Heathcliff was independent, long-suffering, loving nature, longing for freedom, but a lonely soul. He encountered many obstacles in the process of pursuing ideal love and his silent struggling with unfair fate. The reality made him depart from natural humanity step by step. In the yoke of the social space his human nature was distorted gradually.Wuthering Heights focused on human nature. Space is the vehicle of the novel, the essence of human nature is well demonstrated in natural space and social space. Through the carrier of space Wuthering Heights rationally ponders over the fate and survival state of the characters, disclose the complexity of human nature, demonstrate the goodness, wickedness and recovery of Heathcliff's human nature.Space theory is the hot topic in academic circles at the beginning of the new millennium. In recent years space turns out to be a new critic view in western culture and literature. Space study is one of the important paradigms, In the literature, space perspective is an important object of literature survey. Schoolars start from space perspective re-interpreting literature activities. Literature is closely related to the spiritual care, people's personality, behavior and cultural value judgments consist in space which determines literature surveys human nature by the means of space.The representatives'space theories focus on different perspectives. As space concept is too abstract, and there is no consensus concept, scholars analyse it in different ways and from different angles. This paper intends to explore the space contents of Wuthering Heights from the aspects of natural space, social space and imaginary space, analyse the transformation and its causes of Heathcliff's human nature.Literature enhances the spirit of human beings through the concern of the real-life of the people. Heathcliff's distorted humanity arouses our rational thinking of social life and atmosphere of the times, find flaws and imperfections of human life in the experience of real life, survey and overcome such shortcomings and imperfections by our understanding of space and humanity.