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谈《飘》中女性意识的觉醒
Awakening of Feminine Consciousness
In
Gone with the
wind
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Contents
Introduction
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ChapterOne
The
Women Characters Show the Awakening of
Women
.
. 9
ChapterTwo
The
Most
Important
Women
Characters
Showing
Their
Woman
Spirits
to
Protect
Their
Freedom
and
Their
Dreams
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Conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Bibliography
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Introduction
As
time
goes
by
,
with
the
development
of
the
human
civilization,
the
people
began
to
realize
the
women
status
in
all
walks
of
lives
in
the
world.
Through
continuous social
realities
we
can
see that
women play an
important role
in creating
the
new
world.
So
women
want
to
improve
their
situations
and
social
status.
They
want to be equal with
men.
From
the
old
history
to
the
modern
time,
many
social
activities,
organizations
and
movement
s are advocating
women’s rights that are protected by
the
law and
men
and
women
are
equal.
Women’s
views
and
ideas
are
the
key.
Thus
knowledge
and
education become the
first. In
this essay, I take
Gone with the Wind
as an
example to
describe women’s
rights
in the novel.
This
essay
is
describing
the
feminism
in
Scarlett.
It
enlights
the
feminist
movement,
daringly
reflects
the
theme
of
the
freedom,
the
dream
and
the
love
and
expresses the awakening of
women's consciousness and self-
consciousness
and
their
seeking
for
independent
human
dignity.
After
that,
people
began
to
study
the
novel
from a
brand
new angle, affirmed
its significant exploration concerning
problems of
marriage, freedom and love,
and established Scarlett's status in the
society.
The research is
conducted on the awakening of feminists and the
main characters.
Then
the
author
analyses
the
importance
of
the
different
loves
in
the
novel
to
help
Scarlett express the theme of feminism.
In light of these ideas, the author puts the idea
on the analysis of aspects of
men and the author
gets the
conclusion that Scarkett
is a
famous piece of fiction about the theme
of feminism.
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Chapter
One
The
Women
Characters
Show
the
Awakening
of
Women
1.1
Scarlett’s Ideas and Actions Describe
the Awakening of W
omen
Scarlett is by far the most developed
character in Gone with the Wind. She stands
out because she is strong and saves her
family but is incredibly selfish and petty at the
same
time.
She
challenges
nineteenth
century
society's
gender
roles
repeatedly
,
running a store and two
lumber
mills at one point.
Scarlett
is
in
some
ways
the
least
stereotypically
feminine
of
women,
and
the
more
traditional
Melanie
Wilkes
is
in
many
ways
her
foil.
But
Scarlett
survives
the
war,
several
marriages,
the
birth
of
children,
and
even
a
miscarriage.
Melanie,
on
the
other
hand,
struggles
with
fragile
health
and
a
shy
nature.
Without
Melanie
Wilkes,
Scarlett
might
simply
be
seen
as
harsh
and
the
top,
but
beside
Melanie,
Scarlett
presents
a
fresher,
deeper
female
characterization;
she
lives
a
complicated
life
during
a
difficult
period
of
history
.
Some
of
Scarlett's
lines
from
Gone
with
the
Wind,
like
is
another
day
,
balls
of
fire!
and
never
go
hungry
again!
have
become modern catchphrases.
As
for
her
love,
Scarlett
did
not
care
about
the
traditional
rules.
she
wanted
to
choose her husband by herself.
Sometimes, she kept her love as her private
rights.
As for her marriage,
Scarlett once had been married for three tImes. At
that time,
it
was
shocking. Scarlett was
not
controlled by
the traditional rules of
marriage. She
just did what
she wants to do.
As
for
her birth of children,
through the three
marriages,
Scarlett
had born
three
children, who had different fathers.
She chose her marriage when she needed a man.
As for her survival, Scarlett worked at
Tara and made it better and better after the
war. She also
runs a store
and
two
lumber
mills.
All she did support
her
family and
relatives.
Chapter Two The Most Important Women
Characters Showing
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Their
Woman
Spirits
to
Protect
Their
Freedom
and
Their
Dreams
2.1
Scarlett O’Hara From a Y
oung
Girl to a Complicated Woman
No matter what we can see, the
most
important
is
the different
loves of Scarlett
There is a course of Scarlett’s Love
Pursuit. Gone with the Wind depicts the
perplexed
love
matter
of
Scarlett
O’Hara
during
the
Civil
War
and
Reconstruction
Age
in
the
South. The
whole novel is a course of Scarlett’s love
pursuit. In the novel, Scarlett is a
full-blooded
woman;
selfish,
deluded
conflicted,
but
driven
by
her
own
strength
of
will.
She
protects
her
land
and
runs
her
timber
mill’s
by
using
many
base
conducts;
however, the
motive power
which pushes
her
to do
like
that
is
rightly
her deep
love
for
the
land and for the
men she
loves. It
is her deep love
for Ashley
, Tara and Rhette
that supports her to pull through the
difficulties, and to live on bravely. These
positive
elements
rooting
in
her character
continuously
influence the women
in the twentieth
century
.
Her
love
for
Ashley:
Ashley
is
born
of
a
line
of
men
who
use
their
leisure
for
thinking,
not doing,
for spinning brightly colored dreams
that
have
in
them
no touch
of
reality. He
moves
in an
inner
world that
is
more beautiful
than Georgia and comes
back
to reality
with reluctance. Why
is
he so attractive to
Scarlett? The very
mystery
of
him
stems
from
her curiosity
like a door that
has
neither
lock
nor
key.
The
things
about
him,
which
she
could
not
understand
only,
make
her
love
him
more.
In
childhood, Scarlett and
Ashley always play together.
They seem to be as
friendly
as
other
friends.
She
has
seen
him
come
and
go
and
never
gives
him
a
thought,
and
Ashley has never seemed so very
attractive to her. It is as simple as that. That
year she
is
only
16.
She
is
attracted
and
falls
in
love
with
him.
Scarlett
stays
headstrong
and
stubborn,
as
well
as
very
selfish.
All
that
she
does
is
for
her
benefit.
Yet
she
is
not
inherently evil. She turns to Ashley to
be that authority figure, but he is not able to be
one
for
her. She,
just
like a child,
needs
boundaries, and because
she was
not
getting
them,
runs wild just like a child. Her
so-
called love for Ashley is a child’s
love. He is
something that denied her,
so that makes her want it more.
She
has wanted
him,
in that
first
instant, wants
him as simply
and
unreasonablly
as
she
wants
food
to
eat,
horses
to
ride
and
a
soft
bed
on
which
to
lay
her.
Consequently,
Ashley does
never show
love
for
her,
nor do
the clear
gray eyes ever
glow with that hot
light
which Scarlett knows so
well
in other
me
n.―And
yet
- and
yet
–
she
knew
he
loved
her.
She
could
not
be
mistaken
about
it.
Instinct
stronger
than
reason
and
knowledge
born
of
experience
told
her
that
he
loved
her.
Too
often
she
had
surprised
him
when
his eyes were
neither drowsy
nor remote, when
he
looked at
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her
with a yearning and a sadness, which puzzled her.
She knew he loved her.‖ In fact,
Ashley
does
not
love
her.
He
just
lusts
for
Scarlett’s
body.
At
the
same
time,
he
is
afraid of
her warmth,
her
forces and
her
frankness. As
he
has said that
Scarlett
had a
lion
heart.
He
needs
a
wife
who
is
as
quiet
as
himself.
And
the
best
woman
is
his
cousin---Melanie
Charleston.
The
marriage
had
another
aim
that
is
to
uphold
their
family
properties.
But
he
never
has
the
courage
to
face
Scarlett
and
tell
her
that
is
Melanie who he truly
loves. He chooses to keep a vague dubious
relationship with her.
As a result,
Scarlett
is a
victim; no
matter how she
is cheated by
him. He
is a
liar
and
a coward. He has no courage to face
reality and his heart.
He
insists on closing
himself
in the entire old world, and cherishes
the
memory
of
the
life
in
Twelve
Oaks
in
sigh.
His
idea,
language,
fear
and
pain
are
all
that
Scarlett
cannot
understand,
so
he
is
attractive
to
her.
However,
in
fact,
Scarlett
just
hugs an
unreal
ima
ge.
During
the
war,
she tries
her best to
look
after Ashley’s
wife
and son,
only because she loves Ashley and has promised him
to take care of Melanie.
As a
loser,
Ashley
lives
like a weak dog under
the protection of Scarlett. He does
not
learn how to survive on his own in the
new emerging South. He relies on both Scarlett
and Melanie to keep him going. He
realizes this, but does nothing to change it. He
has
nothing,
no
emotion,
no
enthusiasm,
no
aim,
and
dangles
like
an
empty
bag
in
the
wind.
But
the
foolish
Scarlett
still
wants
Ashley
to
marry
her
at
that
time
and
unchanged with wishful thinking to be
his wife. She even encourages him to flee with
her.
Fleeing
with
Ashley
is
always
a
nice
dream
to
Scarlett,
and
she
dreams
all
the
way
to
realizing
it
is
too
late.
She
just
casts
the
unreal
image
on
Ashley,
though
Ashley is not the one she loves in the
real life. The one she really loves is an image in
her dream.
Her
love
for
Rhett:
Then
from
Cathleen’s
words,
Scarlett
knows
his
terrible
reputation:
―Rhett
But
ler comes
from
Charleston. One day
he took a
Charleston
girl
out by buggy
riding. They stayed out nearly all night and
walked home finally, saying
that
the
horse
had
run
away
and
smashed
the
buggy
and
they
had
gotten
lost
in
the
woods. But to
their surpris
e,
he
refused
to
marry
her
the
next day.‖
In people’s eyes,
this was a bad
guy
in those days, as Scarlett also
thought
it
like
that. But somehow,
unbidden,
she has a feeling of respect for Rhett Butler for
refusing to marry a girl who
is
a
fool.
In
a
word,
the
first
impression
of
Rhett
Butler
was
not
so
good.
Anyhow,
Rhett Butler is the typical southern
young rogue, the one all the ladies are warned
off,
yet to be
found
fascinating. On the other
hand,
how about Rhett’s
first
impression on
Scarlett?
It
was
amazing
though
it
was
also
not
very
good.
Rhett
overheard
all
the
bold
and
enthusiastic
expressions
that
Scarlett
had
told
Ashley
in
that
room.
Then
there
was
a
quarrel
between
Rhett
and
Scarlett.
Rhett
was
really
attracted
by
her
nature
at
once.
From
the
very
beginning,
they
had
the
same
feeling
about
each
other---ridicule and
respect.
They
should
not pretend to be
lady and
gentleman when
facing each
other.
Rhett
loves Scarlett,
so whenever she
gets
into
troubles, he
will try
his best to
help her. After
Scarlett
is
married to Frank
Kennedy,
it
is
Rhett who
lends
Scarlett the money to buy the mill and
drives with Scarlett to-and-fro along the mill. It
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is
he
who
warns
her
about
the
dangers
of
making
the
drive
alone.
There
was
an
intense
sexual
desire between the two. But Scarlett
insisted on that she
loved
Ashley
and would
never change
her
mind. It
is
Rhett
who tells
her that she would
never be
happy
with
Ashley.
And
he
is
the
only
one
who
understands
Scarlett
thoroughly
because they are
alike.
This
mistaken
feeling
like a
veil blinded
her to
convince
that
the
one
she
really
loves
was---Rhett
Butler.
He
finally
marries
her,
but
it
is
the
beginning of the end. A marriage built
on power struggles, communication difficulties
and
personality
clashes
between
two
fiercely
independent
and
frustrated
individuals
can
only
lead
to
the
inevitable
break-up.
Perhaps
they
are
too
much
alike
to
live
peacefully
together.
Rhett
knows
that
the
two
things
in
the
world.
She
longs
for---Ashley and
wealth. He can give her wealth. But he cannot
become Ashley. He is
Rhett,
Rhett
Butler.
He
loved
Scarlett,
but
he
does
not
tell
Scarlett
that
because
he
thinks
it
will
give
her
power
over
him
that
he
does
not
want
her
to
have.
And
he
finally
matched
her
in
wits.
But Scarlett
still
was too st
ubborn to
understand
Rhett’s
love.
Her
love
for the
land---Tara:
The
hand of Fate and a
hand of poker combined to
give
Gerald
the
plantation,
which
he
afterwards
called
it
Tara,
and
at
the
same
time
moved
him out of
the
upland
country of
north
Georgia.
Tara
is a beautiful place
with
the long red road that
leads down the hill to the river and the red
fields with springing
green cotton.
Growing
up
in
Tara. Scarlett
understands
that
land and Negroes are
all
the
resources
of
her
big
family.
As
a
Southerner,
she
also
hates
the
war
and
the
Yankees, although she does not
like to discuss the
war.
However, during
the war, she
volunteers to take care of the wounded
in Atlanta. Like many white women, she takes
an active and educated part in the
movement to separate the South from the North. To
protect
the
south
means
to
protect
her
family
and
the
plantation.
After
Sherman’s
campaign,
Atlanta
is completely
lost
from the South. Many people desert
their
lands
and families and
escape to other places.
Scarlett
loves
her
family
and
the
whole
of
Tara.
Tara
is
her
land
and
her
backbone.
She can
lose
Ashley or
Rhett, but she
cannot
live without Tara. She
stays
and
tries
her
best
to
preserve
Tara
no
matter
what
it
will
cost.
She
deludes
Frank
Kennedy, her sister’s
beau, a successf
ul
merchant
in
hardware,
furniture, and
lumber,
and
marries
him
to save
Tara---
the
family’s plantation,
her
home. She
relies on
it to
practice
usury,
run
timber
mill,
and
illegally
employ
Negroes.
She
is
abused
by
the
southern
royalty
to
be
greedy,
selfish,
shameless,
cruel
and
cold.
It
does
not
matter,
because
those
features
are
just
the
qualities
of
the
ascending
bourgeoisie.
And
she
follows
the
improved bourgeoisie. She
is an adventure, an
upstart
and a
great heroine
who
has
survived
in
the
war.
She
is
a
belle
in
the
turbulent
days.
Factually,
all
the
people
in
Tara
including
the
Ashleys
are
living
on
Scarlett’s
shoulders.
Without
her
cruelty
and
coldness,
how
could
there
be
so
many
virtues
in
Melanie?
Without
Scarlett to be an
evil, how could Melanie be respected as an angel?
Therefore, Scarlett
is the real
respectable person. She is a heroine in the
campaign at the terrible times.
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