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Wuthering Heightsのあらすじ
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Trapped by snow at Wuthering Heights, a visitor sleeps in a bed and hears a child pleading at the window.
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Wuthering Heightsの概要
要約：読むのに8 minかかります
- 読書時間
- 約7 h 55 min6 h 20 min fast, 9 h 25 min slow
- 所要時間
- 113,300語34 chapters
- ページ数
- 326ページ491 in large print
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 標準 longer sentences, everyday words
- 初版刊行年
- 1847by Emily Brontë
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Wuthering Heights in short
Wuthering Heights tells of two families bound together by one foundling. Heathcliff is raised beside Catherine Earnshaw, loses her to a rich neighbor, and returns to repay everyone who humbled him. Through Nelly Dean, the quarrel passes to the next generation.
What Wuthering Heights is about
What would you do if a blizzard forced you to spend the night in the house of a man who lets his dogs attack guests? Mr. Lockwood, a gentleman renting a country home in Yorkshire in 1801, finds out. At Wuthering Heights he is given a bed never meant for visitors, and through its window comes a child's ice-cold hand and a voice begging to be let in.
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Brontë, who died in 1848, a year after it appeared under the pen name Ellis Bell. It follows two families across two generations, mostly as the housekeeper Nelly Dean tells it. Expect passion, pride and revenge.
対象読者. Readers who love stormy moorland settings, fierce and flawed lovers, family feuds across generations, and tales told by a gossiping housekeeper will feel at home here.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A snowbound visitor finds a house at war
Mr. Lockwood arrives in 1801 to rent Thrushcross Grange on the Yorkshire moors. He rides over to meet his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff looks like a gypsy but speaks like a gentleman. Lockwood loves solitude and decides the two of them are alike.
The welcome is rough. A pack of dogs attacks him, while Heathcliff and old Joseph climb the cellar steps with perfect calm. On a second visit a snowstorm traps him in the house, where nobody offers a kind word. He is finally shown to a bed in a room kept from guests. On the window ledge one name is scratched again and again: Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, Catherine Linton.
He dreams of a ghostly child at the window, begging to be let in. His scream brings Heathcliff, who weeps and tears the window open, calling for Cathy. Lockwood asks the housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him what she knows. The book begins with a haunting and spends its length explaining it.
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A starving child is carried home and named Heathcliff
Nelly's story begins when she is a girl and old Mr. Earnshaw owns Wuthering Heights.
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Hindley's rule drives the two friends apart
Hindley returns for the funeral with a young wife named Frances, whose health is frail.
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Catherine chooses Edgar and Heathcliff disappears
Years pass.
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Heathcliff returns rich and begins his revenge
One September evening, Nelly is resting from picking apples when a deep voice behind her says her name.
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Catherine dies and a new generation is born
Heathcliff is barred from the Grange, yet Cathy only grows worse.
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The children are drawn into Heathcliff's trap
Thirteen years pass.
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Love here is identity, not comfort
Cathy tells Nelly that she is Heathcliff, which is a claim about who she is rather than whom she likes.
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Cruelty is learned, and property is power
Each cruelty in the book is a reply to an earlier one.
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Nested narrators shape how we see everyone
The story comes through layers.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Heathcliff A foundling raised at Wuthering Heights who loves Catherine and, humiliated and parted from her, returns rich and set on revenge.
- Catherine Earnshaw A wild, proud girl who loves Heathcliff as part of herself yet marries Edgar Linton for comfort and standing.
- Edgar Linton A gentle, refined neighbor who loves Catherine faithfully and tries to protect his family from Heathcliff.
- Nelly Dean The housekeeper who grew up with the Earnshaws and tells most of the story, with warmth, opinions and mistakes.
- Hindley Earnshaw Catherine's older brother, who resents Heathcliff, turns cruel as master of the Heights and sinks into drink.
- Isabella Linton Edgar's sister, who romanticizes Heathcliff and marries him against her family's wishes, then pays heavily.
- Mr. Lockwood A city gentleman who rents Thrushcross Grange, visits the Heights and asks Nelly to tell him its history.
- Hareton Earnshaw Hindley's son, raised as a rough laborer on his own family's land, who longs for respect and education.
How it ends (spoiler)
Heathcliff, haunted by Catherine and worn out by his own longing, loses interest in revenge and stops eating. He is found dead in the old paneled bed, rain blowing in through the open window. Hareton grieves for him. Cathy and Hareton, who have grown close as teacher and pupil, plan to marry on New Year's Day and move to the Grange. Joseph stays on to keep the Heights. Lockwood visits the three graves and finds the moor quiet.
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『Wuthering Heights』についての質問
What is Wuthering Heights about?
It follows the bond between Heathcliff, a foundling, and Catherine Earnshaw, and the revenge he plans after she marries another man. The story spans two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and passes to their children.
Who tells the story in Wuthering Heights?
Two narrators share it. Mr. Lockwood, a tenant, writes the frame, and the housekeeper Nelly Dean tells him most of the history. Letters and other speakers add further viewpoints within her account.
What does the title Wuthering Heights mean?
Wuthering is a local Yorkshire word for the wild, blustery weather that batters the farmhouse. Wuthering Heights is the name of the Earnshaw home on its exposed hilltop.
When was Wuthering Heights written, and is it a true story?
Emily Brontë published it in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell. It is fiction, though she drew on the Yorkshire moors, farms and speech she knew from daily life.
Is Wuthering Heights easy to follow?
Nelly Dean tells the events in clear order, with short scenes and lively conversation. Family trees and repeated names can be tracked as you go, and the two houses give the story a firm sense of place.
この版を引用します
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/wuthering-heights.
Brontë, E. (2026). Wuthering Heights. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wuthering-heights (Original work published 1847)
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/wuthering-heights.
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