呼啸山庄｜Wuthering Heights

原著作者｜艾米丽·勃朗特（英国）

• On the wild moors of northern England
• there was a house called Wuthering Heights
• Long ago
• on a stormy night
• on the streets of Leeds
• a little boy with black hair was abandoned
• squatting at the bakery door
• No one cared who he was, or where he came from
• Until one day
• a carriage stopped in front of him
• "Child, will you come home with me"
• And just like that
• he was taken into Wuthering Heights
• This boy's name
• was Heathcliff
• From that day on
• everyone in this manor's fate
• began to spiral out of control
• The old master was extraordinarily kind to Heathcliff
• so kind that his own son Hindley was mad with jealousy
• Hindley hated him, hated him for stealing his father's attention, hated him for being an orphan
• yet more popular at home than himself
• But the old master's daughter Catherine was different
• she accepted him from the very first day
• The two children grew up together on the moors
• ran together
• did all the things adults wouldn't allow
• Catherine once said to the maid Nelly
• "I am Heathcliff, he is more myself than I am"
• The one who said it
• would never forget it for their whole life
• But then
• the old master died
• Hindley inherited Wuthering Heights
• The first thing he did was demote Heathcliff to a servant
• Make him do rough work, humiliate him, trample him underfoot
• Catherine saw this
• and her heart felt like it was being cut
• She thought many times
• of running away with Heathcliff, escaping to the ends of the earth
• But in the end she didn't
• One moonlit night
• she agreed to the proposal of Edgar
• the young master of Thrushcross Grange
• a wealthy, decent, quiet man
• That night
• Heathcliff heard what Catherine said to the maid Nelly
• "Edgar can make her the mistress of Thrushcross Grange, can make her wealthy, and respected"
• "And I love Heathcliff"
• "The problem is
• if I marry Heathcliff
• we'll starve to death together"
• She hadn't finished speaking
• Heathcliff had already disappeared into the rainy night
• He heard those words
• the one he loved
• had personally said I can't marry you, because I don't want to be poor with you
• After that rainy night
• Heathcliff never came back
• Three years later
• He came back
• With money, with status, with a face with sharp edges
• No one knew where he had been those three years, or what he had done
• But everyone soon realized
• he came back, not for Catherine
• but for revenge
• He schemed to get Hindley addicted to gambling
• step by step winning all of Wuthering Heights' land into his own hands
• He married Catherine back to Wuthering Heights
• not as the mistress
• but as a tool for his revenge
• Catherine went mad
• She died in Heathcliff's arms
• Before she died
• he asked her to open the window
• She said she wanted to go home
• He said
• "I've always been here"
• The night she died
• Heathcliff stood by her window all night
• talking to the void
• His hatred didn't end
• He married Edgar's sister Isabella
• and used the cruelest way to torture her, imprison her
• He taught Hindley's son Hareton
• to grow up in the crudest way
• The nephew of the one who had once bullied him
• He had become a monster
• Twenty years later
• Someone on that moor
• saw two ghosts
• One with black hair, one with blonde hair
• Holding hands
• running in the moonlight
• That was the cruelest ending
• The living rot in hell
• While the dead love
• stays forever on that moor
• If you also had an if only option
• what would you choose
•