试析《飘》中斯佳丽的形象.docVIP

【标题】试析《飘》中斯佳丽的形象 【作者】冉兴梅 【关键词】分析；《飘》；斯佳丽；人物形象 【指导老师】宋家陵 曾琳玲 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionGone with the Wind is Margaret Mitchell’s first and only published best-selling Civil War and Reconstruction Period novel of 1,037 pages that first appeared in 1936. It was made into a film called?“Gone with the Wind(乱世佳人)” in 1939 and often considered the most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time. At the time of the film’s release, the fictional book had surpassed 1.5 million copies sold. As the title suggests, Gone with the Wind is the book which has something to do with the winds. And it is well-known that there are two kinds of winds in the world?“the wind which blows away from the without and the wind blows from the within. Winds from the without blows over which people have little control, may include adversity, war, pestilence, famine, calamity and misfortune. Winds from the within, over which people may have control, can include passion, enmity, strife, malice, factions and jealousies.”1 The heroine of Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara, a strong and rebellious representative western woman of the South America, can stand the test of?“wind” and never be gone with the?“wind”.The author?—– Margaret Mitchell, is a renowned American female writer in the South. She was born on Nov. 8, 1900 in Atlanta to a family with ancestry nearly the same as the O’Hara’s family of the Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell’s grandmother, Annie Stephen, experienced the Civil War very much?—– She moved to Atlanta during the Civil War and got married there; her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, an Atlanta attorney, descended from Scotch-Irish and French Huguenots; Margaret Mitchell’s mother, Mary Isabelle, a typical feminist, gave lectures about feminism among the public quite often; the family included many soldiers members who had fought in the American Revolution, Irish uprisings and rebellions and the Civil War. So there is no doubt that Margaret Mitchell was so familiar wi