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1、the integrity of human and nature an analysis of gone with the wind from the perspective of eco-feminism it s generally accepted that gone with the wind is a popular novel except a few people thought it is not worth reading. due to some controversial problems had been discussed in the book so the no

2、vel was neglected for a long time by critics, such as its descriptions of the black, of the reconstruction after the war and of ku klux klan and so on. however, donald w. miller praised the book as a great epic which influences a number of people of different generations and nations. recently people

3、 come to realize there is something significant behind the big work so that more and more people are addressing themselves to study it from many perspectives. firstly, there are some essays about the relationship between margaret mitchell and scarlett. carolyn gage, described a true-life mitchell wh

4、o suffered great grief after her fiancs death and then got flash marriage to a bootlegger which took her little happiness, later, even though she enjoyed a fast pace of life she could not escape the stigma of her gender, so when mitchell reinvested herself in the novel she rewrote life the way she t

5、hought it should have been, therefore, she created a right man instead of the dashing and sexually charismatic alcoholic. in this way, gage concluded that mitchells writing purpose was to reveal the delusion of female life and escape from her shadowy preceding life, so gage appealed that females sho

6、uld not live in dream under the patriarchal society, but take scarlett for example, to live in present and pursue what they need. secondly, female consciousness of tomorrow catches peoples attention. luo minyu considered scarletts consciousness of tomorrow as a kind of expectation: expecting the equ

7、ality between men and women, a peaceful world and happy homeland and a true love. thirdly, another popular topic is the comparison between scarlett and some females in other works, such as jane eyre or wang xifeng. zhai xu compared scarlett and wang xifeng and thought that they were a typical parago

8、n of feminism who possessed the awareness of womens awakening; both were brave, strong-minded, independent and rebellious against the restrictions which set against the females by the society of their own time. fourth, the tara theme is also noticeable, and vicki l. eaklor pointed out that “tara the

9、me” was the storys musical leitmotif as tara was repeated frequently in the novel and it was scarlettes spiritual pillar. the war destroys scarletts family as well as her happy life, but it did not defeat scarlett as she had tara beside her which gave her strength, every time she got into trouble sh

10、e turned to tara for comfort and encouragement, while tara had trouble, scarlett safeguarded it by all means. besides, a majority of professors analyzed the novel from the perspective of feminism. both gu shaoyang and wang yanli acclaimed the novel was a great one, not only because it reflected fema

11、les self-awareness, especially after the war broken out and women had to go out to realize their economic independence, but also because it confirmed women s contribution to the society, praised their fraternity, selflessness and rebellious spirit, and revealed the belief that women should be libera

12、ted from families. wu shijuan and xie jingzhi also thought that scarlett was a heroic female since she dared to break the traditional prejudice that “females are inferior to males”. she was brave enough to walk out of the house and entered into the “patriarchys world ” and competed against the men f

13、or her economic independence. in liu xiaoyongs essay, he pointed out that scarlett was increasingly maturing and in the end became a southern new woman with strong feminist leanings along with the advance of war and industrialization. when it comes to zhou yaming, he deeply analyzed scarletts strugg

14、le, success and failure and her psychical conflict in her pursuit of material and love, and then he put forward that rhett, one of the representatives of male, his leaving possibly meant the males loss to conquer female; meanwhile, scarlett suffered great loss: she lost her true love and happy life.

15、 and in the game no one won. therefore, zhou concluded that this complex bisexual relationship reflected mitchells desire, rebel, conquer and regression toward male, and her wish of a harmony bisexual relationship. in addition, some critics tried to analyze the novel from the perspective of eco-femi

16、nism, which studies the close relationship between female and nature. this is a most novel and interesting way to analyze the book. zhen jigen generalized that tara and the lumber mill were the resources for scarletts eco -feminism, in which it was not the male who conquered and oppressed the land a

17、s well as conquered the female, but a young lady who called scarlett conquered the land and men s will, as scarlett unexpectedly disobeyed her second husbands will to operate the lumber mill and proved rather successfully; when she came back to tara during the war she could manage the plantation wit

18、hout the help of man and finally possessed the supreme dominion. so zhen concluded that these behaviors were a good match with the ecofeminists opinion, that female and nature were linked together in the term of creating and maintaining life, and natural process abode by female principles of motile

19、creativity, diversity, integrity, sustainability and sanctity of life. when it came to cao peihong, she focused on the three kinds of links between nature and women. first link was a symbolic one whic h stated women s “naturalized” and natures “feminized ”; second one was the experiential link about

20、 the hardships and humiliation suffered by women and nature in patriarchal societies; third one was about females and nature status link which embodied in females folly and nature identification as the field and background of human activities. then she discussed in detail about their mutual dependen

21、ce females were caretakers of nature while nature was the haven for females. take house (which was an important part of nature according to eco-feminist) for example, cao acclaimed women playing a great role in managing the house and plantation before, during and after the war; and the reasons why w

22、omen were willing to commit any kind of sacrifice lied in houses illustration of womens beauty and traits, as houses were the place for women to convey their feeling through the order and decorations and furniture; but the most important thing was women had a deep love for those dwellings, in a word

23、, houses as well as nature were haven for women in hard time. to sum up, the above critical reviews on gone with the wind may represent the major achievements of the studies of this novel in the recent decades. these studies have effectively advanced the exploration of th e novel, broadened readers

24、vision as well as deepened readers comprehension of it. the eco-feminism theory sums up early scholars two separate topic of feminism and tara theme, and then analyzes the novel from a new way which links nature and female together. however, the essays of eco-feminism only use the theory to analyze scarletts eco-feminism thoughts and her relative manifestations, in the novel it appears as scarletts deep attachment to tara and her every endeavor to protect it from being destroyed, in turn