Scarlett’s Deviation from the South


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Scarlett’s Deviation from the South

Abstract: Being one of the members of the Southern America, Scarlett O’Hara, the heroine of Gone With the Wind, was not the deviant of the South as people often regarded. Deep inside her heart, the South had always been her homeland; and as everyone else there, she possessed a deep complex for the South. She was willing and even expecting to be a gentlewoman and to live the idyllic life in the South. However, for that history is a one-way path that isnt within the hands of men, the Civil War that destroyed the entire foundation on which the whole South relied also demolished her fine dream and drove her onto the road of deviation. The violence of the war, the cruelty of the naked reality and the loss of the southern mens onstage role forced her to stand out and take up the heavy burdens of protecting and rebuilding her home as those southern men once did. Owing to the shift of her role from a woman to a man, changes were required for her to adapt to the changing new environment; and it were those exact changes that drove her farther and farther from the traditional South for which she was wholeheartedly longing. Therefore, her deviation from the South was the very result of those external factors caused by the Civil War; it was her unwilling yet unconscious choice that reflected the existent states of the little in the great times.
Key words: Southern consciousness, Family Interests, the Civil War, Crisis of Existence, Shift of Roles.論郝思嘉對(duì)南方的背離

摘要：作為一個(gè)南方人，《飄》的主人公郝思嘉并非如人們想象的是南方的背離者。在她的內(nèi)心深處，南方從來就是她的家園。她同其他人一樣，具有深深的南方情結(jié)。就她的本意，她是希望并且愿意過南方田園牧歌式的生活，成為一個(gè)南方淑女的。但歷史是條無可選擇的單行道，戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)摧毀了傳統(tǒng)南方賴以生存的基礎(chǔ)，使她的這種選擇成為了不可能，不得不走上了背離南方的道路。戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的風(fēng)云，現(xiàn)實(shí)的嚴(yán)酷和在這樣的現(xiàn)實(shí)下南方男人的前臺(tái)角色的缺失迫使她不得不站出來承擔(dān)起保衛(wèi)家園，重建家園的重任，在新南方這個(gè)男性社會(huì)里分一杯羹。角色的轉(zhuǎn)變使得她不得不做出一些改變以適應(yīng)變化了的新環(huán)境，而這些改變使得她離自己真心渴望的傳統(tǒng)南方越來越遠(yuǎn)。她對(duì)南方的背離是在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)等外部因素重壓的結(jié)果，是她無可奈何的無意識(shí)選擇,反映了小人物在大時(shí)代的壓迫下的生存狀態(tài)。
關(guān)鍵詞：南方意識(shí) 家族利益 戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng) 生存危機(jī) 角色轉(zhuǎn)換
Thesis statement: Being one of the members of the Southern America, Scarlett, the heroine of Gone With the Wind, was not the deviant of the South as people often regarded, for her deviation from the traditional South was her unwilling choice forced by the great times.

Outline

Ⅰ Introduction
A. Scarletts unwilling deviation from the traditional South
B. Scarletts deviation, the very result of the loss of the southern mens onstage role caused by the Civil War
Ⅱ Analysis of Scarletts unwilling deviation from the traditional South
A. The old South: honor and dream; gentleman and lady
1. The southerners honor and dream rooted in their lands
2. The roles of southern men and women before the Civil War
B. Scarletts complex for the South
1. Scarletts love of her home and country
2. Scarletts sense of tomorrow
C. The new South after the Civil War
1. The cruel postwar reality and the loss of southern men’s onstage role
2. Women in the postwar south with the features of both genders
Ⅲ Conclusion
Scarlett’s Deviation from the South

I Introduction

Through her classic masterpiece, Margaret Mitchell brought into our mind the vivid picture of the Southern America during the Civil War along with its Reconstruction after the Civil War, one of the important facets of American history; and at the same time, portray