A careful reading of Wuthering Heights shows that, notwithstanding the grimness permeating its various narratives, there are elements in the text which may be said to be of essentially comic interest. That Emily Brontë seems to have no mean gift for comedy is apparent enough, say, through Joseph’s witty utterances; through the satirical portrait of the housekeeper Zillah; through the silly things said by some of the main characters as youngsters; and through a number of more or less farcical incidents and episodes, to cite a few obvious examples. Much less obvious, on the other hand, are some of the ways in which Emily gives us to understand that her two principal narrators, Lockwood and Nelly Dean, should be viewed as somewhat comic figures, thereby confirming for us the idea that, for all its distressing content, her novel nevertheless represents a happy blending of comedy with tragedy.

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呼啸山庄的喜剧

仔细阅读《呼啸山庄》会发现，尽管其各种叙述充满冷酷，但文本中的某些元素可以说是具有本质上的喜剧趣味。艾米莉·勃朗特 (Emily Brontë) 似乎对喜剧没有刻薄的天赋，例如，从约瑟夫的诙谐话语中可以看出这一点。通过管家齐拉的讽刺肖像；通过一些主角年轻时所说的愚蠢的话；并通过一些或多或少可笑的事件和情节，举几个明显的例子。另一方面，不太明显的是艾米丽让我们了解她的两个主要叙述者洛克伍德和耐莉·迪恩应该被视为有点滑稽的人物的一些方式，从而为我们证实了一个想法，对于所有人其令人痛心的内容，