Abstract：Eustacia and Catherine are the heroines delineated in The Return of the Native and Wuthering Heights respectively, and they both pursued their own happinesses and self-identities but ultimately failed. These two heroines are just the women's representatives in 19th-century of Britain, one is dignified and luxurious, the other is wild and rebellious. Even though there is a great disparity in their personalities, they still share the similar tragic fates in the terms of love.
An environment carrier of these two stories is the wilderness of Yorkshire and Egdon, which not brought any benefits for them but pushed them into the abyss, and eventually they became the victim of the British odd-fellow society. The wilderness is characterized as an original and isolated world against the civilized one. Throughout these novel, it not only serves as a setting, but a destructive force that ruins everything. In an attempt to distinguish their miserable fates in depth, this essay will offer a new interpretation, especially by analyzing the setting of wilderness throughout these two novels. It is found that the wilderness possesses a great spirit—a rabid, strong and free will. Once people exchange with this spirit in the nature, the valuable personality would be created, otherwise it is doomed to destruction when breaking and abandoning the harmony between the nature and human.
Key Words: Wuthering Heights; The Return of the Native; Catherine; Eustacia; wilderness; love tragedies
摘要：游苔莎和凯瑟琳分别是《还乡》与《呼啸山庄》中的女主人，她们追求自身的幸福以及自我认同但最终都以失败告终。同是英国19世纪的女性代表，但前者拥有尊贵奢华的气质，而后者却洋溢着狂野叛逆的气息。纵使两者拥有不同的个性特质，但却在爱情方面有着颇为相似的悲剧命运。
约克郡荒原、埃格敦荒原是两者爱情故事的环境载体，它们不仅没为她们带来任何好处，反而把她们一步步推向深渊，最终成了英国畸形社会的牺牲品。与文明世界不一样的是，荒原以其原始性和与世隔绝的特征而引起世人的注意。纵观全本小说，荒原不仅仅起着舞台背景的作用，同时也是一股极其破坏力的力量。为了深入探究她们的悲惨命运，本论文将通过分析文章的小说背景荒原来建立一个新的视角。研究发现，荒原中蕴藏着一种伟大的精神，一种狂乱、强烈、自由的意志。人在自然中与这种精神交流，就生成一种可贵的性格，而冲破这种和谐，抛弃与自然一体的本性便注定遭到毁灭。荒野中
关键词：《呼啸山庄》；《还乡》；凯瑟琳； 游苔莎； 荒原；爱情悲剧
