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【英语论文】谈《飘》中女性意

识的觉醒

-Awakening-of-Feminine-Cons

ciousness-in-Gone-with-the-

wind

谈《飘》中女性意识的觉醒

Awakening of Feminine Consciousness

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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 movements 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 Women

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 "over 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 "Fiddle-dee-dee!,"

"Tomorrow is another day," "Great balls of fire!" and "I'll 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.

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Chapter Two The Most Important Women Characters Showing

Their Woman Spirits to Protect Their Freedom and Their

Dreams

2.1 Scarlett O’Hara From a Young 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.

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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

men.“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 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 image. 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 Butler 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 surprise, 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

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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 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 stubborn 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 successful merchant in hardware, furniture,

and lumber, and marries him to save Tara---the family’s plantation, her home.

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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.

At the end of the novel, Rhett loses confidence in her, and leaves her away.

The only thing that can comfort Scarlett is the land---Tara. Tara is her physical

and emotional home to perch; Tara gives her life and energy. At this time her

father’s words occurs in her mind “Land’s the only thing in the world worth

working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that

lasts.” From the beginning to the end, the land---Tara was the center in

Scarlett’s heart, though she once gave up peasantry and ran after commerce

during the war. Tara gave her the confidence to live on to win back her

soul---Rhett again. This is where she always goes when her problems are too

many for her to bear. Tara is her heaven as she finally understands what her

father meant---the land is the only constant thing. She does whatever she can to

hold on to it, and she is able to have it for comfort. It is the only thing she has left

at the end of the story.

In summary, Scarlett’s love for Ashley, Tara and Rhett respectively

supports her to live on. When she falls in love with Ashley, she can give up the

land---Tara to flee with him so as to get her sweetheart. During the war, when

Ashley is enlisted in the Confederacy and Rhett is still a common friend to her,

Tara becomes her beloved one. After the war, when she wakes up from her

dream to Ashley, she loses her best lover, also her “soul”---Rhett Butler forever,

because her statements and actions to Rhett before deeply hurt him. In despair,

Rhett gives her up forever and goes away alone. After her love flame for Ashley

perishes and losing Rhett’s real love, she was forced to go back to Tara---the only

constant love she could rely on---the vast red land, the place where she was born

and grows up.

All in all, the whole novel is a course of Scarlett’s love pursuit. It is her deep

love for Ashley, Tara and Rhett respectively that supports her to pull through

the difficulties, and it is the very deep love for her land and for the men she loves

which pushes her to live on bravely. These positive elements rooting in her

character continuously influences the women in the twentieth century.

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2.2 The Women Can Surpass the Power of Men

No matter what will be happening in the real world the results and

consequences can give everyone a fully contented answer .Through the novel,

we can see different people who have different fates and their different goals.

Scarlett is the most important person in the novel, it is difficult to define

her, but we can see that: vain, flirtatious and utterly self-absorbed, Scarlett

O'Hara makes an unlikely heroine. Other qualities, such as her courage and

perseverance, ameliorate her bad points and make her an entertaining

character. Although not particularly perceptive about people, she has a knack

for seeing the reality of things, making decisions and following through on

them no matter what she has to do. It is Scarlett on whom the whole family

relies after the war. Her determination to save Tara becomes almost an

obsession with her. At last, she gets nothing except land, because the land can

not leave her, but she can leave the land .She realizes what the most important

thing is in her life. She got three marriages and she has everything she wants

to own, all in all, at last, she lost them in the end.

Melanie's loving nature and humility in the face of her family's financial

difficulties after the war make her popular among the Atlanta ladies who

admire her attitude, and they immediately recruit her for their numerous

charities and organizations. Her wise and nurturing personality make her the

natural choice for people seeking refuge and understanding; she comforts

people hurt or rejected by Scarlett, notably Rhett and Wade. Her sharp

intelligence about people and her personal strength come into play when she

must act quickly to save Ashley from being arrested for his participation in

the Ku Klux Klan raid. Taking her cues from Rhett, Melanie ad-libs her way

through a brilliant performance designed to elude the police, a performance

that Scarlett would never be perceptive enough to carry off. Melanie's death

at the end of the novel is a revelation for Scarlett, who realizes that Melanie is

the only true friend she's ever had. It is also Melanie, in her final moments

before death that helps Scarlett to see how much Rhett loves her.

Ellen O'hara, Scarlett's mother, Ellen is a member of the well-known

Robillard family of Charleston. Ellen is known throughout the county as a

great lady, and Scarlett longs to be like her. She dies from typhoid fever,

which she contracts while nursing the Slattery family through it.

In the end, the woman can not surpass the power of the man ,in the novel,

we can known that the woman are always following the man ,they want to known

all the things about the man even whether they are living or dead. On the

contrary, men do not have the same feeling for women, they just do the things

the society requires them. Due to the war, it is clear that women presents each

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one wants to have a woman before he goes to the war. So men are still control the

world.

Despite the severe gender inequality of their time, women in Gone with the

Wind show strength and intelligence that equal or best those of men. Scarlett is

cunning, and manipulates men with ease. She runs Tara when her father falls ill,

and eventually realizes that she has a better head for business than most men.

She becomes a very successful mill owner, running every aspect of the business

and putting her weak, incompetent husband to shame. Melanie, although she is a

subdued figure, exhibits increasing strength as the novel progresses, and she

eventually emerges as the novel’s strongest female character. She provides much

of Scarlett’s strength, although Scarlett realizes this only at the end of the novel.

Melanie also protects Ashley from the world he cannot face. Despite her humble

means, she single-handedly facilitates the restoration of Atlanta society. Old Miss

Fontaine and Ellen also demonstrate strength and intelligence. Both women act

as head of the family, and the narrator describes Ellen as the true mind and

strength behind Tara.

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Conclusion

To conclude, it is the research that men and women who have their

different freedoms and loves all get their fates and the consequences. It is easy

to get the main theme that the man needs the woman and the woman needs

the man. This is so called the equality. And we are trying to make it into

reality. So the awakening of women is always moving forward until we find

the last result that women get the equality.

It is easy to get the conclusion that although these female characters and

male characters belong to disparate backgrounds, they have the same

advantages, that is, no matter how hard their lives are, they can use different

ways to adjust themselves to have an optimistic attitude towards life. And they

rarely complain about the fate, for they know it is of no use and a waste of

time. To be practical and solve the thorny problems which they meet calmly is

what women usually do in real life. The right belongs to men, the right and

freedom belong to women. We need equality.

The author makes a summing-up of the advantages of these women.

When dealing with troubles, these women always show more practicality than

men, when facing pressure, they can display more endurance and patience, no

matter how hard their present lives are, their hearts are still full of hope

towards their future and they also bear the responsibility to be men’s spiritual

supporters.

The thesis can be simply stated: the author of this thesis finds that women

always hold active and positive attitude to face the social pressure. When the

society is moving forward, both men’s powers and women’s powers are

indispensable. Unilaterally emphasizing and exaggerating the importance of

men’s role in the society is not correct. Paying enough attention to the role of

women and letting them exert all their powers will make the society develop in

a better way.

Scarlett O’Hara lights up the awakening of women in pursuit of her

freedom. Her different loves show that her actions in her mind demonstrate a

kind of spirit which need power, decisive right, especially the control of

money .All this proves that Scarlett wants to get all that men have .The

equality is appearing gradually .However, at last, she gives up the will and

becomes a full time wife and she thinks that she have had a perfect life. On the

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contrary, she still loves Ashley. In fact, she always gets him, when he finds this

when Melanie died. Rhett Butler leaves her. Suddenly, Scarlett realizes that

women can not leave men while the man can not leave the woman. This is the

truth. To sum up, women get the true awakening .Scarlett O’Hara

understands it and she will realize it.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks for my teachers and professor Liu Xueyun, they give me much more

rigorous and careful attentions. At the same time, I will learn their meticulous

attitudes in their works and they are my study spirits. They teach me with skills

and patience by the guidance and mentality without restraint of style that give

me the inexhaustible inspiration.

Thanks for my tutor Yang Yuanyuan, this piece of paper’s each

experimental detail and each data are provided by her careful instruction. And

your open and bright individuality and the tolerant manner help me to be able to

integrate this paper.

Thanks for my roommates, who arrive in this strange city from the remote

family, you and I are maintaining relations between each other with brotherly

sentiment, maintaining the bedroom with family's harmony. In four years, as if

at yesterday. In four years, we have not blushed, not quarreled, not any unhappy

matter which goes to college.

Thanks for my father and mother. Swindle the grass, saying the back of the

tree and raising graciousness do not have repays, I hope that you forever have

been the health and joy, which is mine strongest wish.

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