AComparativeAnalysisoftheExternalandInternalComponentsoftheTwoRevengesinWutheringHeightsandTheScarletLetter

毕业论文（设计）have done to me"(Emily Bronte,1994:148).Chillingworth,yet,couldn't forgive Hester's adulteryeven though he doesn't revenge on her."Therefore,as a man who has not thought andphilosophized in vain,I seek no vengeance,plot no evil against thee.Between thee and me,andscale hangs fairly balanced.But,Hester,the man lives who has wronged us both!"(NathanielHawthome,1994:75).Yet he would not give up the revenge on Dimmesdale.He tells Hester intheir interview."I shall see him tremble.I shall feel myself shudder,suddenly and unawares,sooner of later,he must needs be mine!"(Nathaniel Hawthome,1994:75)."His fame,his positionhis life,will be in my hand,Beware!"(Nathaniel Hawthome,1994:76)...............................163.3 Self-destruction.17Heathcliff and Chillingworth come to destruction in the end.Hawthome says after the death ofDimmesdale,"All his strength and energy to desert him;in so much that he positively withered up,shriveled away,and almost vanished from mortal sight,like and uprooted weed tat lies wilting insun"(Nathaniel Hawthome,1994:260).Heathcliff,the same,lives in deep desire for the reunionwith Catherine in the heaven,died in the end.He said at the end of the novel"You have left me solong to struggle against death,alone that I feel see only deathl I fell like death!"(Emily Bronte,1994:268)..17Fortunately,just before they died,they give up vengeance and do some good deeds.Chillingworh"Has bequeathed a very considerable amount of property,both here and in England,go littlePearl"(Nathaniel Hawthorne,1994:261).Perhaps this act,to some extent,redeems the personwho has the blackest sin.Heathcliff gave up his plan to block the engagement between Cathy andHareton.As he said to Nelly,"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction,and I am tooidle to destroy for nothing"(Emily Bronte,1994:295).Maybe his last mercy helps him regainsomewhat of humanity.17Heathciff and Chillingworth are similar in their images,but these two characters'revenges havedifferent significances and functions under the two authors...................................184.The differences in significance and functions of revenge in these two stories........................184.1 Emily Bronte's vision of humanity and evil represented by the image of Heathcliff......18Wuthering Heights reflects the harsh reality of English society in the 19th century and is a criticalrealism masterpiece."In Victoria's period,the rich are enormously proud of their success andproperty;the secular sense of hierarchy penetrates into the daily life of common people;moneyand property is nothing but everything.Under the control of this concept,the spirit of human issuppressed and humanity is twisted and deformed.At this time,Emily who has strong rebellingand strong desire for freedom wrote Withering Heights and created the character Heathcliff todisclose the evilness of the society”(a綦小风，2006).Heathcliff's humanity was twisted,brokenand destroyed under the cruel reality of the society.In the w