『폭풍의 언덕』의 현대성 : 서술방식을 중심으로 = Modernity in Wuthering Heights

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

On the whole in Wuthering Heights the life and love of Catherine and Heathcliff seem not realistic because it deals with a hero and heroine controlled by extremely strong passion, emotion, and supernatural power. Heathcliff's pertinacious love for Catherine who is married woman and Catherine's love for Heathcliff which ignores morality and commonsense are very striking in terms of moral principals.
Emily Bronte doubles readers' interest and secures objectivity and reality in the novel by weaving their story throughout with Lockwood and Nelly, the narrators, who have a lot of flaws. Especially, Bronte gives the story that lacks a sense of reality, realistic structure by making Lockwood intervene in the story.
Bronte also shows the hypocrisy of commonsense, morality, and norm of civilized society and the unsaid violence hidden in its appearance by Lockwood and Nelly. Therefore the readers not only get to notice that it is impossible to grab the intrinsic nature of love of Catherine and Heathcliff through them but also realize that they can only find the message of Wuthering Heights by rejecting theses values.
Above all, Bronte leads the readers to believe the story Nelly tells as a fact but not to trust her standpoint. Therefore the readers must read the true meaning of the life and love of Catherine and Heathcliff which is not expressed by words. Finally the readers are given the role as critics who criticize the text with a positive attitude. In this way Bronte rejects a monotonous and one-sided interpretation of Wuthering Heights and opens a variety of interpretations. This is her high artistic excellence and could be the most significant point which gives Wuthering Heights originality and modernity.