艾米莉·勃朗特根据古希腊关于佩耳塞福涅女神的神话塑造了她的小说《呼啸山庄》中凯瑟琳·恩萧这一女性角色。神话中,为了保证人间的农业丰收和欣欣向荣,佩耳塞福涅被作为交换的物品,需要每年往返于冥界和神界间,分别居住于她丈夫和她母亲身边。小说中,女主人公凯瑟琳经历了和佩尔塞福涅相似的命运,往返于象征浪漫野性自然的呼啸山庄和象征人类理性文明的画眉山庄之间,经历女性循环往复的成长,才使得两个家族代代相传。勃朗特用这个故事暗示人类社会和自然界都不完美,需要牺牲女性以维持文明秩序的永恒。她认为,在这样的生存困境面前,女性既不能默默接受作为交换物品的命运,更不能被情欲和永不长大的诱惑压垮,而要勇敢地接受自己的成长,积极主动应对成长中的挑战。 Emily Bronte shaped the female role of Catherine Earnshaw in her novel The Wuthering Heights, based on the mythology of the ancient Greek goddess Persephone. In mythology, in order to ensure the bumper agricultural harvest and thriving in the world, Peresevold was exchanged as an object and needed to travel between the Underworld and the Divine World each year, residing separately with her husband and her mother. The novel, the heroine Catherine experienced a similar fate and Persephone, from the symbol of romantic wild nature of Wuthering Heights symbol of human civilization and civilization, the Grizzly Villa, experienced women’s cycle of growth, only makes the two families Handed down from generation to generation Bronte uses this story to imply that human society and nature are not perfect and that women need to be sacrificed to maintain the eternal order of civilization. She believes that in the face of such a living predicament, women can neither silently accept the fate as an exchange item, nor can they be overwhelmed by sentiments and temptations that never grow up. Instead, they should bravely accept their own growth and actively respond to the growing challenge.