希思克利夫是英国著名女小说家和诗人艾米莉·勃朗特的代表作《呼啸山庄》中的男主人公,本为恩肖先生拾来抚养的孤儿,因未与心爱的凯瑟琳成亲而开始报复行动,并成为呼啸山庄与画眉田庄的主人,最后绝食而死。他酷似弥尔顿《失乐园》最后中的撒旦,有着坚深的爱与恨、情与愁,爱得激烈,恨得刻骨。他是一个被社会扭曲了人性的悲剧角色。本文将从自身因素、感情因素以及社会因素分析造成希斯克利夫悲剧的原因。从希斯克利夫自身来说,他是一个流落街头的弃儿。尽管被老恩肖带回家,也许他只是死去的希斯克利夫的替代品,并且在老恩肖死后受尽了辛德雷的折磨和侮辱。从感情因素来说,凯瑟琳对他的爱是他无尽黑暗里唯一的光亮,凯瑟琳的背叛无疑带走了他唯一的希望,这是造成他悲剧的主要原因之一。最后从社会因素来说,在维多利亚时代,世俗的等级观念盛行,身份金钱至上使人们的精神受到压制,人性扭曲。希斯克利夫正是在这个时代背景下,善良的他被摧残成了一个恶魔,他的悲剧也是时代的悲剧。 Heathcliff is the hero of Wuthering Heights, the famous novelist and poet in the United Kingdom, Emily Bronte, who was orphan raised by Mr Ensch and who had not started to marry Catherine Retaliation and become the owner of the Wuthering Heights and thrush Grange, the last hunger strike. He resembles the final in Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” with deep love and hatred, love and sorrow, intense love and deep hatred. He is a tragedy character distorted by human nature. This article analyzes the causes of Heathcliff tragedy from its own, emotional, and social factors. From Heathcliff himself, he is a deserted child on the streets. Although brought home by Elsie, perhaps he was simply a replacement for Heathcliff who had died, and suffered Hindley’s torture and humiliation after the death of Elsouth. From the emotional point of view, Catherine love for him is the only light in his endless darkness, Catherine’s betrayal undoubtedly took away his only hope, which is one of the main causes of his tragedy. Finally, from a social point of view, in the Victorian era, secular hierarchical concepts flourished, and the supremacy of money led to the suppression of the spirit of the people and distortion of human nature. Heathcliff is in this era background, he was devastated as a devil, his tragedy is also a tragedy of the times.