Lin Wei, a graduate student in ethics, was rereading "Wuthering Heights" during the summer vacation of her first year of graduate school. The love-hate entanglement between Heathcliff and Catherine in the book kept her awake all night. As a believer in philosophy and ethics, she has never been able to agree with Heathcliff's ending of destroying everything with revenge - if love goes to extremes, will it inevitably become a tragedy?
When she fell asleep with this confusion, the pages of "Wuthering Heights" on the desk suddenly flew away, and a bright light swept her into darkness. When she opened her eyes again, she turned out to be "Isabella Lockwood", the daughter of a parish priest near Wuthering Heights on the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century.
Faced with the vivid but ruined characters in the book - the gloomy and paranoid Heathcliff, the proud and fiery Catherine, and the cowardly Linton family, Lin Wei is determined to use the "rule of reason" of ethics to rewrite her destiny. She tried to use Kant's "Moral Categorical Imperative" to persuade Heathcliff to let go of hatred, and used Rawls's "Theory of Justice" to mediate class conflicts, but found that the plot inertia of classic literature is as difficult to reverse as the wild wind.
When her modern ethics collide with the savage human nature of the 19th century, and when she and Heathcliff are repeatedly pulled on the edge of reason and emotion, the road to redemption gradually becomes a self-examination: If love and hate are inevitable in human nature, does "redemption" mean changing others, or accepting an imperfect fate?
In the storm-torn villa, Lin Wei will finally understand: true ethics is never a cold theory, but the courage to still choose to reach out to humanity in the intertwining of love and hate.
Purpose: Deconstruct classic tragedy from the perspective of modern ethics