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1、AbstractIn the world of literature,Margaret Mitchell is one of the few writerswhose fames are built on only one book.Since the publication of Gonewith the Wind,it has become the focus of studies of many scholars.Different people have different opinions about it and many scholars fromhome and abroad
2、have made many analyzing on this novel from variousaspects.This paper will first introduce some basic information of thisnovel and the meaning and significance of my research.Then,the mainpart of this paper is a brief collection and analysis of scholars researchesand articles of this novel from home
3、 and abroad.The conclusion part issome suggestions about future researches.Key word:Feminism;Scarlett OHara;Literature review;Future workA brief analysis of Scarlett OHara from thePerspective of FeminismLiterature review1 IntroductionGone with the Wind is created by American authoress Margaret Mitch
4、ell in1930s and it is the only novel by Mitchell published during her lifetime.By later 1965,Gone with the Wind has been sold more than 10,000,000 copies and has beentranslated into twenty-five kinds of language in twenty-nine centuries.The heroine ofGone with the Wind is Scarlett OHara,who is beaut
5、iful,high-spirited andstrong-willed.The novel is set in American Civil War and it fully emerges the realityof social unrest.It also describes several young persons love stories and ScarlettOHaras fortune.When Gone with the Wind was firstly published in 1936,Americawas still struggling in the Great D
6、epression.To many people in the hard time,thisnovel shows a good example of survival and hardship.In other word,it is anencouraging book at that special historical and social background.The heroine of thenovel is a high-spirited,independent,undefeated and brave young woman.In order tosurvive during
7、and after the Civil War,Scarlett makes all of her effort to support herfamily.Scarletts struggle against difficulties and misfortunes is really encouraging.However,Gone with the Wind is not only a love drama,but also a book thatshows the change of life and psychological experience of people in the O
8、ld Southduring the Civil War.Drawing the theory of feminism into Gone with the Wind,it isnot difficult to find that Scarlett OHara is a heroine who dares to overthrow womanstraditional image.Despite the severe gender inequality of their time,Gone with theWind is a novel with the premier feminist ide
9、ology.Readers can find strong feministcolor in the role.Nowadays,readers should not just look Gone with the Wind as aromantic love story and should not neglect the value of feminist ideals contained inthe work.Hence,the aim of this thesis is to reinterpret the novel with the focus onfeminism through
10、 analyzing the heroine-Scarlett OHara from the perspective offeminism.Therefore,readers will find that the novel is not only a book of love story,but it also deserves a large amount of studying from a feminist perspective.2 Literature Review2.1 From HomeIn China,Fu Donghua first translated Gone with
11、 the Wind into Chinese in 1940.However,Chinese people may be more familiar with Gone with the Wind as a famousmovie directed by David O.Selznick but not a novel.Even though the facts that Gonewith the Wind has been sold more than 10,000,000 copies and has been translated into25 kinds of language in
12、29 countries and Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize forher excellent description of the Old South and the touching love story between Rhettand Scarlett.Hence,many researches on this novel are still on the surface in China.Until now,some new findings and analysis are released,especially in the
13、aspect ofcharacter of Scarlett OHara.Above all,Chinese researches of Gone with the Wind can be concluded intoseveral aspects as fellow,of which researches on its literary language and speech acttheory and researches on the female protagonist of its heroineScarlett OHara arerelevantly more popular in
14、 China in recent years.The following part will focusing onintroducing Chinese researches of these two aspects.2.1.1 Researches of its literary language and speech act theory.Irony is one of the most prominent characteristics in many literary works,especially in Mitchells novel Gone with the Wind.How
15、ever,previous studies mainlyfocused on the literary value or ideological content of Gone with the wind rather thanthe irony in it.Therefore,many researchers try to take challenge and make innovation,such as Zhou Qians A Speech-Act Theoretic Study of Irony in Gone with the Wind;Zhang Dongyans Irony i
16、n the Novels of the Present Age;Lu Xifeis Irony in Prideand Prejudice-Based on Speech Act Theory;Fan Xiaojuns The MetaphoricalSignificance in GonewiththeWind;Guo Chens Studying the American NegroLiterature through the Literature Works Uncle Toms Cabin”,Gone with the Windand Roots;Liu HusHumanNaturea
17、ndClassNature in literaturediscussion on the ideological criticism about the novel Gone with the Wind and so on.2.1.2 Researches on the female protagonist of its heroine ScarlettOHara.This aspect is the most attractive one in China.Due to the complexities of thecharacter of Scarlett,scholars study h
18、er from different aspects with various focuses.Yang Yuns On The Artistic Image of Scarlet In Gone With the Wind;Sun Yus TheAnalysis of Scarlett s Realistic Characteristic;Zhu Fangs An Analysis of Scarlett sCharacter in Gone with the Wind and Xie Jingzhis On the Charm of Scarlett inGone with the Wind
19、 deals with the aesthetic values and the characterization of thisfemale protagonist.While some articles focus on the traditional consciousness ofScarlett,such as Deng Yufens Scarlett:Dream and People without Going with theWind Feminism Understanding of Gone with the Wind;Liu Liyins EndlessExploratio
20、n in the Existential Reality;Yang Juans Scarlet s emotional conflictsand radical changes-On the completion of female consciousness as subject andtransfer of spiritual home;Zhang Jiapings A Disputable Best-sellerSomeComments on the Study of the American Novel Gone with the Wind and LiuCuixiang;s Tend
21、ency of Gone with the Wind.Some writers(Cheng Xiaohong,2004;Li Yangbo,2006)try to explore the rebellious aspect of her.Other writers(YuJihong&Li;Yangrong,2005)focus their attention on the quite contradictoryqualities of this protagonist while some(Zhang Zhao,2004)try to understand theAmerican cultur
22、e through the analysis of this protagonist.Through reading thesestudies with the various focuses,readers will benefit a great deal since they willhave the chances to know this character from different perspectives and they willbe able to master a comprehensive view of this protagonist.In turn,this w
23、illgreatly decrease the readers chances of forming biased opinions against thisprotagonist.Since it is known that it is not so simple to put people into either thecategory of good or bad,sometimes the classification is a much more complicatedmatter than that.In addition to these,there are also some
24、other famous articles which focus ondifferent research aspects,such as Wang Xiaoquans Scarlett and Rhetts EternalLove Trip and Wang Jians Marriages in Gone with the Wind and Xu Xiaohong andYu Fangs On the Sense of Land-ethic and Its Multiple Significances in thePopular Novel Gone with the Wind focus
25、 on the theme of the novel and theybelieve that the novel is an object representation of the history of the Old Southduring theAmerican Civil War and Restoration years.2.1 FromAbroadIn generally,researches abroad focus on the similar aspects as these in China,such as the novels theme,its main charac
26、ters,novels content and its impact,theliterary study of the novel and its feminist ideals.However,foreign scholars are moreattractive to analyze the novel in the aspect of its theme as well as its content andimpact.Therefore,the paper will mainly list and discuss some researches results inthese two
27、aspects.2.2.1 Researches in the aspect of themeMany critics regard the novel as a song of the Old South,such as John P.BishopsWar and Peace;O.Levitski and O.Dumers Color Symbolism and Mythology inMargaret Mitchells Novel Gone with the Wind;Drake,Eaklor,Vicki Ls StrikingChords and Touching Nerves:Myt
28、h and Gender in Gone with the Wind and RobertYs Tara Twenty Year after.2.2.2 Researches in the aspect of its content and impactThe New York Sun review gives a high appraisal of this novel:the greatpanoramic novel such as the English and the Russians and the Scandinavians haveknown how to produce;in
29、spaciousness,emotional power(and no American writerhas approached Mitchell in this respect)and in its picturing of a vast and complexsocial system in time of war,Gone with the Wind is most closely allied to Tolstoy Warand Peace.In the New York Post,it also gets high remarks:A good Southernnovelist w
30、ho is also an excellent critic wrote me the other day that he thought it wasprobably the greatest novel ever written in the United States.I am not willing to gothis far,but.it is far and away the best novel that has ever been written about theCivil War and the days that followed.John Crowe Ransom sh
31、ows his extremeadmiration for the architectural persistence behind the big work in the SaturdayReview and the New York.Besides,book review in Publisher Weekly claimed thatGone with the Wind may be the greatestAmerican novel until now.3 Future workSince there have been many researches on the novels t
32、heme,charters,translation and literature language,it would be more meaningful to make analysis onits heroine from the aspect of feminism,so as to reflect her strength and intelligencewhich can quall or even bests the strength and intelligence of men.Through this,wecan have a new understanding of Sca
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