用女性主义批评方法解读《飘》.docx

1、用女性主义批评方法解读飘文学批评课程论文 论文题目：The Interpretation of Gone with the windwith Feminist Approaches用女性主义批评方法解读飘 学生姓名: 杜雅妮 学 号:709202220 班 级:英语09-2The Interpretation of Gone with the windwith Feminist ApproachesAbstractGone with the Wind as only work of American female writer Margaret Mitchell first published

2、 in 1936 and won the Pulitzer prize in literature in 1937. Its not only a successful commercial novel but also a classic. Although its popular but it never get any attention from literary critics. In the history of literature Gone with the Wind does not gain much reputation, people consider it as a

3、romantic love story and a best seller. Actually Gone with the Wind is a valuable work to be analyzed with feminist approaches.Here Id like to analyze Gone with the Wind into 3 parts. The first part will be a brief introduction of the writer Margaret Mitchell. The second part will introduction of fem

4、inist approaches. The third part I will analyze Gone with the Wind with feminist approaches. And for the last part we will get the conclusion that Gone with the Wind not only a book for entertainment but also a masterpiece to chew.Key words: Feminist Approaches Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell用女

5、性主义批评方法解读飘 内容摘要飘是美国女作家玛格利特米切尔的唯一一部作品，出版于1936年，1937年获得普利策文学奖。这不仅仅是一部成功商业小说，也是一部经典名著。尽管这是一部深受欢迎的成功小说但是却从未得到文学评论的重视。在世界文学史上，飘的文学地位并不高。在人们看来，这不过是一部浪漫的爱情故事、一本成功的畅销小说而已。实际上飘是一部值得用女性主义批评方法去解读的大师之作。在这里我将用三部分来用女性主义批评方法分析飘。第一部分将会是一个简短的关于作者玛格利特米切尔的简介。第二部分是介绍女性主义批评方法。第三部分是利用女性主义批评方法去解析飘。第四部分我们会得到论证，飘不光是一部供人消遣娱乐

6、的畅销书，也是一部值得好好品读的大师作品。关键词：女性主义批评方法 飘 玛格利特米切尔 Contents1. Introduction-1.1 Introduction of Margaret Mitchell-1.2 Introduction of Gone with the Wind-2. The Theoretical Foundation-2.1 Feminist Approaches-3. Feminist Analyze of Gone with the Wind-3.1 Scarlett OHara- 4. Conclusion- IntroductionGone with th

7、e Wind, first published in 1936, is aromance novelwritten byMargaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fictionfor the book in 1937. The story is set inClayton County, GeorgiaandAtlantaduring theAmerican Civil WarandReconstruction, and depicts the experiences ofScarlett OHara, the spoiled

8、 daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in afterShermans March to the Sea. The book is the source of the 1939film of the same name.1.1 Introduction of Margaret MitchellMargaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a l

9、ifelong resident and native ofAtlanta, Georgia, who was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel May Belle (or Maybelle) Stephens, was asuffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who

10、 died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.Mitchells family on her fathers side were descendants of Thomas Mitchell, originally ofAberdeenshire, Scotland, who settled inWilkes County, Georgiain 1777, and served in theAmerican Revolutionary War. Her grandfather, Russell C

11、rawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in theConfederate States Armyin July 1861, and was later severely wounded at theBattle of Sharpsburg. After the Civil War, he made a large fortune supplying lumber to rapidly building Atlanta. Russell Mitchell had twelve children from two wives; the eldest was

12、Eugene, who graduated from theUniversity of Georgia Law School. Mitchells maternal great-grandfather, Philip Fitzgerald, emigrated from Ireland, and eventually settled on a slaveholding plantation nearJonesboro, Georgia, where he had one son and seven daughters with his wife, Elenor. Mitchells grand

13、parents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens, who had also emigrated from Ireland and was a Captain in the Confederate States Army. John Stephens was a prosperous real estate developer after the Civil War and one of the founders of theGate City Street Railroad(1881), a mule-draw

14、nAtlanta trolley system. John and Annie Stephens had twelve children together; the seventh child was May Belle Stephens, who married Eugene Mitchell.May Belle Stephens had studied at the Bellevue Convent in Quebec and completed her education at the Atlanta Female Institute. 1.1.1AtlantaIn 1912, Euge

15、ne Mitchell built the family home, a white columned two-story frame house on the east side of Peachtree Street just north of Seventeenth Street in Atlanta. Past the nearest neighbors house was forest and beyond it theChattahoochee River.9Prior to living on Peachtree Street, the Mitchells lived in a

16、two-storyVictorian houseon Jackson Hill, east of downtown Atlanta. Jackson Hill was an old, affluent part of the city.At the bottom of Jackson Hill was an area of African American homes and businesses called Darktown.Margaret Mitchell was born in her grandmother Annie Stephenss house on Cain Street,

17、 just around the corner from the Mitchells home on Jackson Street. Her childhood was by all accounts a happy one. She was a precocious child and became an avid reader. She liked to write action stories. Her extended family and surroundings in Atlanta immersed her in Civil War lore. 1.1.2ParentsMitch

18、ells parents were influential in her life; her father offered more criticism than praise, which drove Mitchells independence, and her mother spoke to both her children directly, giving them advice on matters of drinking and sex.One of Mitchells most vivid memories of her mother was awomens suffrager

19、ally led byCarrie Chapman Catt. Margaret sat on a platform wearing aVotes-for-Womenbanner blowing kisses to the gentlemen while her mother gave an impassioned speech1.1.3The South (of her imagination)While the South exists as a geographical region of the United States, it is also said to exist as a

20、place of the imagination of writers. An image of the South was fixed in Mitchells imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and Shermans sentinels, the brick and stone chimneys that remained afterWilliam Tecumseh Shermans Marchand torch through

21、Georgia. Mitchell would later recall what her mother had said to her:She talked about the world those people had lived in, such a secure world, and how it had exploded beneath them. And she told me that my world was going to explode under me, someday, and God help me if I didnt have some weapon to m

22、eet the new world. From an imagination cultivated in her youth, Margaret Mitchells defensive weapon would become her writing. Mitchell said she heard Civil War stories from her relatives when she was growing up:On Sunday afternoons when we went calling on the older generation of relatives, those who

23、 had been active in the Sixties, I sat on the bony knees of veterans and the fat slippery laps of great aunts and heard them talk. On summer vacations, she visited her maternal great-aunts, Mary Ellen (Mamie) Fitzgerald and Sarah (Sis) Fitzgerald, who still lived at her great-grandparents plantation

24、 home in Jonesboro. Mamie (18401926) had been twenty-one years old and Sis (18481928) thirteen when the Civil War began. As a child, she had a pony and went riding with a Confederate veteran and a young lady of beau-age.She played on earthen Civil War-era fortifications. 1.2 Introduction of Gone wit

25、h the WindGone with the Wind takes place in the southern United States in the state of Georgia during the American Civil War (18611865) and the Reconstruction Era (18651877) that followed the war. The novel unfolds against the backdrop of rebellion wherein seven southern states, Georgia among them,

26、have declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and formed the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president with no ballots from ten Southern states where slavery was legal. A dispute over states rights has arisen involving enslaved Af

27、rican people who were the source of manual labor on cotton plantations throughout the South. The story opens in April 1861 at the Tara plantation, which is owned by a wealthy Irish immigrant family, the OHaras. The reader is told Scarlett OHara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Gerald and Ellen OHar

28、a, was not beautiful, but had an effect on men, especially when she took notice of them. It is the day before the men are called to war, Fort Sumter having been fired on two days earlier.There are brief but vivid descriptions of the South as it began and grew, with backgrounds of the main characters

29、: the stylish and highbrow French, the gentlemanly English, the forced-to-flee and looked-down-upon Irish. Miss Scarlett learns that one of her many beaux, Ashley Wilkes, is soon to be engaged to his cousin, Melanie Hamilton. She is stricken at heart. The following day at the Wilkeses barbecue at Tw

30、elve Oaks, Scarlett informs Ashley she loves him and Ashley admits he cares for her. However, he knows he would not be happily married to Scarlett because of their personality differences. Scarlett loses her temper at Ashley and he silently takes it.Then Scarlett meets Rhett Butler, a man who has a

31、reputation as a rogue. Rhett had been alone in the library when Ashley and Scarlett entered, and felt it wiser to not make his presence known while the argument took place. Rhett applauds Scarlett for the unladylike spirit she displayed with Ashley. Infuriated and humiliated, Scarlett tells Rhett, You aren