乱世佳人英语论文

1、AbstractThis paper intends to explore out Scarletts rich life in the perspective of character and destiny by an analysis of Scarletts personality and her destiny, based on the heroine Scarlett in the novel Gone with the Wind. Scarlett is a typical character who changed from old manor class to the ne

2、w bourgeoisie, which decides the diversity of her character. This paper will give a brief introduction of Scarletts three main personalities: strong and masculine, independent and individualistic, responsible and trustworthy. Then there will be an analysis of the interaction of Scarletts personality

3、 and destiny by means of the effect of Scarletts personality on her destiny in the form of her main experiences in this part. Firstly, she had an indomitable spirit to dare to face the reality and do not bow to fate. This personality makes her return home and assume the whole familys burden and figh

4、t against the fate without cowardice and grow to maturity. Secondly, she is selfish and greedy; she uses all kinds of means to gain profits. She believes in individualism. Her selfishness and vanity is the direct factor leading to her three purposeful marriages. Thirdly, she is trustworthy. This per

5、sonality makes her never give up the help to Melanie who is her rival in love just for her promise to Ashley. “Tomorrow is another day”. This is the best confession to her optimistic life and her perennial interpretation of destiny.Key words: Gone with the Wind; Scarlett; personality; destiny内容摘要本文立

6、足小说乱世佳人中女主人翁斯佳丽这一人物形象，从性格和命运的视角出发，通过分析斯佳丽自身性格对其命运的影响展示斯佳丽丰富的人生。斯佳丽是一个典型的由旧庄园主阶级向新型的资产阶级转变的人物形象，这注定了她性格的多元性.本文首先会分三部分分别呈现出斯佳丽的三个主要性格：坚强，独立和个人主义，有责任感并值得信赖。接着将会分析斯佳丽性格和命运之间的相互影响。这个部分主要通过斯佳丽的经历进行分析：一.她有敢于面对现实，不向命运低头，坚强不屈的精神，这使她在战乱中她决定返还家园承担起整个家庭的重担，与命运抗衡，不怯懦，不退缩,逐渐走向成熟。二.她自私自利唯利是图，为达目的不择手段。她是一个个人主义者，自私，

7、虚荣直接导致了她的三次有目的性的婚姻。三.她信守承诺值得信赖,这种性格使她为了信守对阿希礼的承诺，在任何时候都没有放弃对自己情敌梅兰妮的援助。“明天将会是崭新的一天”是她对生活积极进取的最好表白，也是她对命运生生不息的诠释。关键词：乱世佳人；斯佳丽；性格；命运1. IntroductionThe topic on the relationship between ones personality and destiny is hot all the time. Many people have done research on it before. Personality has always

8、 been defined as an individual thinking, mood, behavior and attitudes of the general. Destiny is close to us as well. People are excepting the knowledge of fate. This paper will do the same work by a simple analysis of Scarletts personality and her destiny. Scarlett is the heroine of Gone with the W

9、ind by Margaret Mitchell, a renowned American female writer. People in Gone with the Wind can reflect kinds of persons personality and destiny vividly, and Scarlett is representative. So the paper will focus on Scarlett to tell her personality and destiny.Scarlett is a controversial character. She i

10、s selfish, cold, ruthless, unscrupulous, cute, strong and also beautiful and weak. Her personality decided that she would not live a plain and common life. But just because of her over hard-edged personality in other peoples view, she suffered more both in her career or her love than peoples imagina

11、tion. As her name suggests, she is a wild and strong-willed lady. She is not only charming and attractive in her appearance but also in her personality: She is a strong willed, indomitable, hard working and masculine lady of the western people. However, she is an individualist, in other words, she i

12、s a self-centered woman. She never cares about the feelings of others. “To the men, she is an independent lady, she never depends on them. She shows her attitudes by different personalities. To love, she is warm and persistent. To life, she is brave and strong; To secular, she is resistant; To inter

13、est, she is unscrupulous” (Taylor 49-50).The structure of the paper is as follows. It begins with a brief review of the present situation on the topic of the interaction between personality and destiny. Following that is a brief introduction of Scarletts personality which includes three parts, each

14、part will present Scarletts one main personality. Next, there will be an analysis of the interaction of Scarletts personality and destiny. This part will analyze the effect of Scarletts personality to her destiny in the form of her main experiences. In this part, her growing to maturity shows her st

15、rength and masculinity; her three marriages will show her individuality; taking care of Melanie shows her responsibility and trustworthy. Finally, there will come to a conclusion of the whole paper.2. A brief introduction of the author Margaret Mitchell and the novelThe author of novel Gone with the

16、 Wind Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta. Her mother was a suffragist and father was a prominent lawyer and president of the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell grew up listening to stories about old Atlanta and the battles the Confederate Army had fought there during the American Civil War. At

17、the age of fifteen she wrote in her journal: “If I were a boy, I would try for West Point, if I could make it, or well Id be a prize fighter - anything fpr the thrill” (12). Mitchell graduated from the local Washington Seminary and started in 1918 to study medicine at Smith College. In her youth Mit

18、chell adopted her mothers feminist leanings which clashed with her fathers conservatism - but she lived fully the Jazz age and wrote about it in nonfiction, like in her article “Dancers Now Drown Out Even the Cowbell in the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine.” In vain, the leader the jazz band may burs

19、t blood vessels in his efforts to make him heard above the din of the Double Shuffle and the Fandango Stamp, the newest dances introduced to Atlantas younger set. Formerly we had a vast respect for the amount of noise a jazz band could produce. Now we see it is utterly eclipsed.When Mitchells mother

20、 died in 1919, she returned to home to keep house for her father and brother. In 1922 she married Berrien Kinnard Upshaw. The disastrous marriage was climaxed by spousal rape and was annulled 1924. Mitchell started her career as a journalist in 1922 under the name Peggy Mitchell, writing articles, i

21、nterviews, sketches, and book reviews for the Atlanta Journal. Four years later she resigned after an ankle injury. Her second husband, John Robert Marsh, an advertising manager, encouraged Mitchell in her writing aspirations. From 1926 to 1929 she wrote Gone with the Wind. The outcome, a thousand p

22、age novel, which was later compared with Tolstoys War and Peace, was published by the Macmillan Publishing Company in 1936. The retail price of the book was $3.00.Mitchells book broke sales records, the New Yorker praised it, and the poet and critic John Crowe Ransom admired “the architectural persi

23、stence behind the big work” but criticized the book as overly Southern, particularly in its treatment of Reconstruction. Malcolm Cowleys disdain in his review originated partly from the books popularity. John Peale Bishop dismissed the novel as merely one more of those 1000 page novels. Competent bu

24、t neither very good nor very sound. In 1937 Gone with the Wind was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.Although Gone with the Wind brought Mitchell fame and a tremendous fortune, it seems to have brought little joy. Chased by the press and public, the author and her husband lived modestly and traveled rarely

25、. Also questions about the books literary status and racism, historical view and depiction of the Klu Klux Klan, which had many similarities with D.W. Griffiths, film The Birth of a Nation (1915), led to critical neglect which continued well in the 1960s. Griffiths film was based on the Reverend Tho

26、mas Dixons racist play; the author was a great admirer of Mitchell and wanted to write a study of her novel. In Atlanta the Klan kept a high profile and had it national headquarters in the 1920s on the same street, where Mitchell lived.Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta b

27、urning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party

28、 at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.Gone with the Wind, an all-time best-seller by Margaret.Mitchell, is a legendary recollection of the l

29、ast brilliance of the Old South. The writer's debut novel was an instant success. And the story has been bestowed an even further reaching popularity since Vivian Leigh presented a vivid translation to the screen of Katie Scarlett O'Hara, a southern belle raised in her fathers white-pillared

30、 plantation Tara. A climax of Hollywood, from Director Victor Fleming for MGM, Gone with the Wind is more than a vicissitude, it is also an old, lost culture revisited.It is Old South, which today is no more than a dream remembered. People were once there, living with the high strong slaves songs in

31、 the quarters, in security, peace and eternity. Here, Scarlett spends her young maiden years. She is well disciplined by her mother, but her blazing green eyes always betray her covert capricious self; the one who enjoys parties and the surrounding of beauties. She dreams to marry the noble Ashley W

32、ilkes. The impending war shatters the golden peace of the South, and leaves many lives permanently changed. Plantations, treasures, and honor are ruined. Scarlett is made a most peculiar widow by the war, and then compelled into a second marriage in continuation of her struggle for the salvation of

33、Tara. And her third marriage to Rhett Butler is also jeopardized because of her secret, stubborn ardency for Ashley. In the end of the movie, Scarlett is left only with her Tara, a plantation which symbolizes the culture of the Old South, a place where she could ever gather her strength3. A brief in

34、troduction of Scarletts personality3.1 Strong and masculine Scarletts strength and masculinity manifested in the character mainly. She is the strongest and toughest one to come out of pain and difficult. She not only had to endure the same pain and suffering as other but also face the ruins and smok

35、e of war, her mothers and fathers death, poverty of life and loss of her daughter. Even though she had been brought up to believe that a woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed the plantation without man help. She believed that women could manage everything in the world without men

36、s helpexcept having babies. With the idea that she was as capable as a man came a sudden rush of pride and violent longing to prove it, to make money for herself as men did. Money could be her own and she could handle it at her own will. In chapter twenty-four, it wrote that “Her burdens were her ow

37、n and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear the. She thought without surprise, looking down from her height, that her shoulders were strong enough to bear anything now, having borne the worst that could ever happen to her. Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it” (Mitchell 1

38、53). All of these descriptions reflect Scarletts strength. She is just the representation of strength and masculinity.3.2 Independent and individualistic Scarlett is an individualist, in other words, she is a self-centered woman. She is cruel, selfish, vain and greedy. This character reflects her mi

39、nd of individualism completely. In chapter twenty-five, Scarletts cruelty and selfishness had been represented vividly. Scarlett reigned supreme at Tara, and like others suddenly elevate to authority, all the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unk

40、ind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself. She was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies and refuse her authority. She bullied the negroes and harrowed the feelings of her sisters not only because she was too worried and strained and tired to do otherwise, but because it hel

41、ped her to forget her own bitterness. She never cares about the feelings of others. To the men, she is an independent lady, she never depends on them; To the children, she is not a good mother, instead, she is Satan to them, and she has no female friends. She used to be the apple of Tara, she needs

42、to pay no attention to the life. So the trace of cruelty and selfish can be easily found on Scarletts body.3.3 Responsible and trustworthyIts no doubt that Scarlett is responsible. In the war time, she decided that somehow she must keep her father and her sister, Melanie and Ashleys child, the negro

43、es. Scarlett can care about herself and live a good life completely, but she hadnt done like that. She assumed the whole familys burden. Just responsibility can explain her activity. Responsibility and credibility is the key to communicate with the others. Scarlett decided that somehow she must keep

44、 her father and her sister, Melanie and Ashleys child, the negroes. Scarlett can care about herself and live a good life completely, but she hadnt done like that. Scarlett is responsible, so she assumes the whole familys burden. She is trustworthy also, so she never forgets her promise to Ashley, sh

45、e takes the task of taking care of Melanie.4. Analysis of the effect of Scarletts personality to her destiny4.1 Process of maturityBefore the war: Scarlet, the individualist is quite willful. In her opinion, “a ladys highest and the only task for her is to show her perfect character of being a woman

46、.” So the only thing for her is to dress up beautifully and looks for an ideal husband. She could never long endure any conversation of which she is not the chief subject, and she hopes that every man pays attention only to her. During the war: There is an old saying that life is connected with the

47、world, and each people make choices through his around environment and through it to make sure of him. The pre-war period are sweet memories for Scarlett, however, the war stimulates her to be strong. Scarlet becomes a widow during the war. Atlanta is falling; she wants to turn back to Tara for help

48、. However, Melanie is going to give birth. Without the doctors help, she becomes a midwife and delivers her child. With Rhetts help, she gets away from Atlanta successfully, but Rhett also leaves her in the half way because he is going to take part in the war. Scarlet feels sad, the only word she ca

49、n remind is “leaving”, and Rhett is going to leave her. But she has no time to feel sad; she has to return to Tara. However, the situation in Tara is much more serious- Mum Ellen died the day before, father is in a state of dementia, her pitiful two sisters are hit by the typhoid, she has to look af

50、ter Melanie for she just gives birth to a child In a word, the war throws her into a homeless and starved state. Scarlet has to become strong; she tries every means to save Tara and becomes a competent businesswoman. When a Yankee soldier intrudes, she even kills him and takes away his treasure. Aft

51、er the war: Scarlet measures money much more important than before. She dares to ask her neighbors to pay back the debts, employ the free black slaves even the prisoners. “Now, all what she does is masculine. She is clear out, firm, decisive and sharp, without any hesitation. She knows what she need

52、s and looks for it in an easiest way like men.” When other people interrupt her family, she tries every means to recapture her property. The event that shocks Scarlet most is that when she finally clears about her feelingthe one she really loves is Rhett. However, it is too late for Rhett to accept

53、because he is too tired to accept her love. But luckily, she is full of hope and believes that “I will think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I will think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” (Mitchell 389)4.2 Three marriages Scarlett has three

54、 men during her life; they are Charles, Kennedy and Rhett. Scarlet is a self-centered woman, once she needs a man she will do it directly and finally let them fall into love with her. She is an individualist who looks for love by herself. Scarlet marries Charles impulsively simply because Ashley rej

55、ects her love. The self-centered girl can not receive the humility. Capriciously she marries Charles just because “he has a lot of money, and he hasnt any parents to bother me and he lives in Atlanta. And if I married him right away, it would show Ashley that I did not care a rap that I was only fli

56、rting with him” (Devereaux 21-22). And it would just kill Honey. She had never caught everybodys laugh fit to die at her, and it would hurt Melanie, because she loves Charles so much, and it would hurt Stu and Brent.” What a self- important girl, she never considers others feelings.What is worse, sh

57、e is indifferent with Charles death. It is true that she is sad, but what she is sad about is not because her husband is dead, but because now she is a widow, she can no longer wear the beautiful dresses and she can not dance any more, even a greet to young men is forbidden. She only cares for herse

58、lf!Scarlets marriage with Frank is an example of her individuality. For Scarlet, “In such kind of society, as ones aim, people pay much more attention to achieve ones own goal. Ones own desire is much more important than that of the responsibility to the traditional society.” She does not love Frank

59、 either, but in order to save Tara, she sacrifices herself and marries him. Because she needs the money to pay for the taxes on Tara, and Frank happens to be the only person except for Rhett who has the amount of money. In other words, if other people have the amount of money, she will also choose him. And she has no feeling towards Frank, worse still, she used to despise him. And she is independent even when she marrie