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Discuss About The Development History Of "Gone With The Wind"

Posted on:2014-10-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Y ChaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401471886Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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"Gone With The Wind ", written by a famous American writer Margaret Michel, is a novel of romantic and reflecting the Civil War. For more than half a century, the more than1000page novel has been on the top of the American bestsellers.Until the end of70’s, the novel has been translated into27kinds of languages and also been sold more than20million sets in the world." New York World Telecommunication" books columnist wrote:" the upcoming Civil War novel" Gone With The Wind" will commander the bestseller list with no doubt since it’s published."" New York Post" wrote:"... A stunning novel masterpiece, it is too solid and important so that it gets into the American literature eternal body... All the novels about the civil war and the following years, it’s far front of the excellent books."" Publishers Weekly" said:"" Gone With The Wind" is likely to be the greatest American novels."Gone With The Wind" with beautiful writing, humorous style and excited plot has the tradition of southern romantic novels. The author reflected well of the death, cruel and tragic of the war and they feel small, helpless as an individual when they are in the face of the war. With her subtlety and accurately grasping the complex psychological activity of young women, she succeeded in creating the image of Scarlet. We are impressed by the heroine Scarlet who has the rebellious spirit and hard working spirit, full of fighting spirit, unremitting self-improvement, and never giving up.Full of romantic ideas, exquisite vivid description characters and scene, beautiful writing and personalized expression makes the entire works of great charm, thus establishing the" Gone With The Wind" in the important position of the world novels.Heroine Scarlet, the successful artistic image, is not created by the author’s subjective intention, but according to the logic of life. She had not only a prominent ugly, but also undeniable beauty. As a typical figure, Scarlet is plump and bright. She is abhorrent and also lets the human sympathize and even admire. Such a complex character is in accordance with the real life.Therefore, this article makes deep analysis on Scarlet’s character from the psychological perspective to explore the colorful world of her inner world.It analyze her psychological process in the American Civil War, from a naive, straightforward girl to a smart, brave power holder, and finally becoming a stingy and greedy but decisive strong capitalist businesswoman. The evolution of her character and mature are closely related with the local background.Her ups and downs of destiny can be said to be a miniature of American Southern life during the civil war. Through the systematic analysis, we can have a deeper understanding and grasp the typical artistic image.
Keywords/Search Tags:Scarlet, artistic image, Scarlet’s character
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