In this article, I argue that in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ([1847] 2003. London: Penguin) the ‘witch’ motif is used to explore the novel's depiction of nineteenth-century anxieties surrounding threats to patriarchy, and of expectations around women's domesticity and role in society. I show how Cathy Heathcliff (née Linton), who is called a ‘witch’ by various men in the novel, appropriates the role of witch, drawing on vestiges of medieval superstition to resist the patriarchal order, to gain authority, and to assert her position at the Heights when she is dispossessed of her patrimony and physically and emotionally abused by Heathcliff, and is verbally attacked by his servant Joseph. I posit that the narrative's references to the use of ‘witchcraft’ in relation to Cathy are integral to its engagement with debates concerning the role of women in male-controlled social contexts, the subversion of male domination, and the empowerment of women.

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艾米莉·勃朗特《呼啸山庄》中凯茜的颠覆性“黑色艺术”

在这篇文章中，我认为在艾米莉·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》（[1847] 2003. 伦敦：企鹅）中，“女巫”主题被用来探索小说对 19 世纪对父权制威胁的焦虑，以及对女性家庭生活的期望和在社会中的作用。我展示了在小说中被各种男人称为“女巫”的凯茜·希思克利夫（Cathy Heathcliff）（原名林顿）如何利用女巫的角色，利用中世纪迷信的遗迹来反抗父权秩序，获得权威，并维护她的地位当她被剥夺遗产并受到希斯克利夫的身心虐待，并受到他的仆人约瑟夫的口头攻击时，她在高地的职位。我假设叙述'