Analysis of Scarlett’s Character in Gone with the Wind-对《飘》中斯佳丽的人物性格分析

高等教育自学考试毕业论文Analysis of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind《飘》中的女主人公形象分析云旭霞专业：英语语言主考学校：＿西北师范大学＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿准考证号： 230107200155指导教师姓名职称：吴晓昱甘肃省高等教育自学考试办公室印制2013年10月1日论文摘要：纵观中西方文学作品，女性在求爱求生存的道路上，无不充满着艰辛，《飘》给我们展示了一个独立自主、坚强不屈的崭新的女性形象----斯嘉丽。

她勇敢坚强，在风雨飘摇的乱世，永不放弃对爱情的追求，对家园的保卫，对生活的渴望。

在追求爱情的漫长征程中，她保住了被战争摧毁的家园，摆脱了饥饿和贫穷，积累了财富。

在中国改革开放以来，社会同样发生了诸多变革，历史的车轮滚滚像向前，多少遗老遗少甘愿做“螳臂”挡车，因此解读斯嘉丽顺流而上，敢于创新，开拓进取的个性魅力，对我们的人生会产生深刻的启迪。

关键词:爱情；家园；永不言败；Analysis of Scarlett in Gone with the wind《Gone with the wind》is my favourit novel,The heroine Scarlett in this book is the daughter of a farmer .She is so differnt from a traditional Chinese woman that I have decided to write something about her .Scarlett is a figure with storng personality : she will never give up ,never desperate.I can`t help admire her .Admire her courage .So whenever I meet with difficulties ,whenever I had a bad mood ,I am moved by her .It`s not deniable that with the China`s entry into the WTO ,women are just like the deep-hidden treasure which has not been explored completely .They have the desire to be admitted by the society .But All these good wishes are not easy to accomplish.Maybe we should learn from her .No matter how difficult our life is ,Just face it optimistically.Key WordsIdeal woman ; succesful career ; never give up《飘》中女主人公的形象分析-------解读斯嘉丽永不言败的个性纵观中西方文学作品，女性在求爱求生存的道路上，无不充满着艰辛，《飘》给我们展示了一个独立自主、坚强不屈的崭新的女性形象，在重重失败面前，敢于担当，永不言败。

The Book Report of The Scarlet Letter---- The analysis of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter as a masterpiece of Hawthorne, is a world-known tragic novel. The author adopts delicate description and profound psychological analysis portrays different characters vividly and deeply. It breaks the mold that American’s long-gestating novel is always fo llowing behind Western Europe’s.The social life in the early colonial period is very familiar to Hawthorne. Hence he is good at the portrayal of different kind of characters who were living under the rule of Puritans. And the novel is succeeded in shaping three types of people: Hester Prynne is a representative of ordinary women who were suffering persecution by the church. Being put in prison, publicly expose, put on scarlet letter, endless torments and humiliation stroke her religious belief and removed her hope for the church. At the beginning, what she wants to do is only to confess her sins. While she has no right to do that, which arouses her awareness of rebellion and resistance. We can see from the original work: ” But Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely separated, but outlawed, from society, had habituated herself to such latitude of speculation as was altogether foreign to the clergyman. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. ” Therefore, she dare to motivate Dimmesdale to escape the secular society and pursuit their own life. Between the lines, we can see this woman’s process of convert clearly.Dimmesdale is a devout priest. And he is regarded as a real priest, a real religionist within the novel. However, he is quite different from Hester. If we use the words like kindness and rebellion to describe Hester Prynne, then we can use hesitation and timidity to depict the movements of Dimmes dale’s own mind. On the one hand, he is looking forward to having romantic love, while on the other hand, he hold the idea that he should not have any other intention except the strong belief of God. He can touch the sunshine and feel warm when Hester is accompanied with him. In the meantime, he is unwilling to leave God for a new life. As a devout priest, the barrier of belief is the biggest obstacle in his mind. There's often a tradeoff inside hisheart between the belief and love. He is tired of being hypocrisy, and dare not to disclose his own sins. When he had to sermonize his thoughts towards Hester when she was publicly exposed, he behaved as a hypocrite. Since he is in dilemma that he feels sorry for Hester and scares of being punished when his secret was disclosed by human beings.Dimmesdale and Hester are the main characters of this tragic love. What they suffered have unmasked the evil ruling of the church from two aspects. The suffering of Hester is an accusation against the draconian laws made by the church. And the result of death for Dimmesdale is a description of the cruel treatments of religious thoughts. It is naturally for Hester to have rebelled thoughts since she is subjected to abuse by all the village people. So there is no doubt that she rewarded the freedom in a certain degree. To the contrary, owing to his noble position, especially the strong belief to God, Dimmesdale is always the slave of religion. When Hester tried to persuade he to escape from this kind of Sodom, he was so excited once he heard the idea, while eventually he gave up the right for happiness for his fear of religion thoughts. From the point of his eyes, the behavior of escape is a matter that never can be absolved. As a matter of fact, although they escape from the cruel ruling of church, they cannot live in a happy life for the reason that he have no way to rid the religion thoughts of inwardly and ultimately.Chillingworth, as a hypocritical and cruel person ruling by the church in depth, he has no feeling towards his wife. What he has owned is his desire to be in possession. Despite he knew the fact that Hester would suffer a lot if she married to him. Their combination is just a misunderstanding. In order to fulfill his selfish desire, he just felt at ease to their unfortunate marriage. And once he found that his wife was unfaithful to him, his cruel nature exposed at once. For his revenge, he changed his name and intertwined with Dimmesdale like a viper. He appeared as a reliable friend in front of Dimmesdale, and then cheated him to expose all his secretes publicly. He didn’t uncover the secret of Dimmesdale not because of his generosity but for his conspiracy. Chillingworth, is a typical negative character in the novel, Hawthorne portrays this character deeply and profoundly.The great success of The Scarlet Letter in psychological description has put Hawthorne into a position of one of the most famous novelists in America. He created a new era for American romantic novel and psychoanalytic novel.。

Scarlett O'Hara (full name Katie Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton Kennedy Butler) is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's only novel, Gone with the Wind, and in the later film of the same name. Scarlett is also the main character in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley, and in the 1994 television mini-series based on the book.Scarlett is a pretty, coquettish Southern belle who grows up on the Georgia plantation of Tara in the years before the American Civil War. Scarlett is described as being 16 years old at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, which would put her approximate birthdate at about 1845. Selfish, shrewd and vain, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her Irish father Gerald, but also desires to please her well-bred, genteel French American mother Ellen, from a good Savannah family. Scarlett loves Ashley Wilkes, her aristocratic neighbor, but when his engagement to meek and mild-mannered Melanie Hamilton is announced, she marries Melanie's brother Charles out of spite. Her new husband dies early in the war, and Tara falls into the marauding hands of the Yankees. In the face of hardship, the spoiled Scarlett uncharacteristically shoulders the troubles of her family and friends, and eventually thenot-so-grieving widow marries her sister's beau, Frank Kennedy, in order to get funds to restore her beloved home. Repeatedly, she challenges the prescribed women's roles of her time, as a result, she becomes very disliked by the people of Atlanta. Scarlett's ongoing internal conflict between her feelings for the Southern gentleman Ashley and her attraction to the sardonic, opportunistic Rhett Butler—who becomes her third husband—embodies the general position of The South in the Civil War era.Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley is controversial to fans. Scarlett grows up over the course of the book, and while this is appealing and believable to some readers, others claim it cheapens the original novel and film and compromises her character. Either way, Scarlett was a runaway best-seller after its publication in 1991.In the 1939 film version of Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara is similar to the character in the original novel, but there are some noticeable differences. In the book, Scarlett gives birth to three children: Wade Hampton Hamilton, Ella Lorena Kennedy, and Eugenia Victoria "Bonnie Blue" Butler. In the film version, only Bonnie Blue is mentioned. (In the novel Scarlett, Scarlett O'Hara gives birth to another daughter by Rhett, Katie Colum "Cat" O'Hara Butler.)While the studio and the public agreed that the part of Rhett Butler should go to Clark Gable (except for Clark Gable himself), casting for the role of Scarlett was a little harder. The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film versionof the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema - "The Scarlett Letters" as it was affectionately called - such as Bette Davis (who was cast in the similarly themed movie "Jezebel" when she failed to land the role of Scarlett), Katharine Hepburn who went so far as demanding an appointment with David O. Selznick and saying "I am Scarlett O'Hara! The role is practically written for me". David replied rather bluntly "I can't imagine Rhett Butler chasing you for ten years."Jean Arthur, and Lucille Ball were also considered. Susan Hayward was "discovered" when she tested for the part, and the career of Lana Turner developed quickly after her screen test. Joan Bennett was widely considered to be the most likely choice until she was supplanted by Paulette Goddard. However, failure to produce a marriage license between her and Charlie Chaplin lost her the part.Principal photography on the film began with the role still not cast. The scene depicting the burning of Atlanta was being filmed when producer David O. Selznick's brother arrived on the set with two visitors—British actor Laurence Olivier and his then girlfriend, novice actress Vivien Leigh. Myron Selznick announced he had found his brother's Scarlett, and with one look at Leigh, David knew he was right. Leigh was cast—despite public protest that the role was too "American" for an English actress—and Leigh eventually won an Academy Award for her performance.Part of Scarlett's enduring charm for women is her feminism, though recent critics have pointed out that many events in the novel are degrading to women. There is Rhett's ravishing of Scarlett (after which Scarlett is shown to have enjoyed herself immensely), Scarlett's apparent need of a man to be happy (whether it's Ashley Wilkes or Rhett Butler), and Melanie's sweet but submissive character (who is much adored by everyone).On the other hand, there have been many defenses for this. First of all, Melanie is not offensive to women, she is simply a more traditional character. Many believe the 'rape scene' quickly becomes consensual (this theory is backed by the novel Scarlett, although it was not written by Mitchell). And again, Scarlett is an individual character, and her need for a man should not be interpreted as universal.Scarlett is by far the most developed character in Gone with the Wind. She stands out because she is strong and saves her family but is incredibly selfish and petty at the same time. She challenges nineteenth-century society's gender roles repeatedly, running a store and two lumber mills at one point. Scarlett is in some ways the least stereotypically feminine of women (in other ways the most), and the more traditional Melanie Wilkes is in many ways herfoil. But Scarlett survives the war, several marriages, the birth of children, and even a miscarriage. Melanie, on the other hand, struggles with fragile health and a shy nature. Without Melanie Wilkes, Scarlett might simply be seen as harsh and "over the top," but beside Melanie, Scarlett presents a fresher, deeper female characterization; she lives a complicated life during a difficult period of history.Some of Scarlett's lines from Gone with the Wind, like "Fiddle-dee-dee!," "Tomorrow is another day," "Great balls of fire!" and "I'll never go hungry again!", have become modern catchphrases.Rhett Butler is the handsome, dashing fictional hero of Gone with the Wind written by American author, Margaret Mitchell. The novel introduces him as the problem-solving pragmatist who is sure that the South cannot win a protracted war with the North. His opinions, expressed in the parlor of a Southern gentleman's household, are not viewed favorably by the Southerners and as a result, he is even challenged to a duel. Rhett gracefully takes a bow with the famous lines "I seem to have ruined everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory and war."In the beginning of the novel, we first meet Rhett at the barbeque at the Twelve Oaks Plantation, the home of Ashley Wilkes and India Wilkes. The novel describes Rhett as "a visitor from Charleston;" a black sheep, he was kicked out of West Point and because of his true rebelious nature, he is not accepted by any family with repute in the whole of Charleston, and perhaps all of South Carolina. When Scarlett O'Hara, who was at the Twelve Oaks party where Rhett was introduced, hears of this, she is shocked and intrigued at the same time. Rhett's enthrallment with Scarlett begins when he overhears her declaration of love for Ashley in the library while the rest of the "proper" girls are taking a nap in the late afternoon to prepare for the dance that would take place later that evening. He recognizes that she's willful and spirited, and also that they're alike in many ways, including their disgust with the impending, and later ongoing, war with the Yankees.They meet again when Scarlett has already lost her first husband, Melanie's brother, Charles Hamilton, while she's staying with Melanie and her Aunt Pittypat in Atlanta during the war. Rhett, the dashing blockade runner, shocks the entire charity ball that was being thrown to raise money for the confederate troops, by asking to dance with Scarlett, who is now a widow, something that was unspeakable in the Antebellum south. Once a woman's husband passed away, she wasn't permitted to do a great many things.Rhett seemingly ruins Scarlett's reputation after this very public display of frivolity and Scarlett's father, Gerald O'Hara comes to speak to Rhett and to take Scarlett back to Tara. However, Rhett, the blackguard he is, gets Gerald intoxicated and he and Rhett come to terms, so to speak. Gerald returns to Tara and Scarlett remains in Atlanta, along with her newborn son.When Scarlett flees Atlanta, Rhett joins the confederate soldiers for their one last stand against Sherman. Scarlett couldn't understand why Rhett chose to ally himself at the moment when the confederate cause had failed.After a great many months, Scarlett returns to Atlanta, this time to solicit money from Rhett to save Tara from being stolen out from under her, only to learn from Aunt Pitty that he was in military jail, imprisoned by the Yankees for stealing the confederate gold. Scarlett comes waltzing in, supposedly horrified that Rhett's life was in danger, all the while maneuvering him to give her money for the plantation. When Rhett sees through her ploy, he laughs in her face, in which case Scarlett flees, only to be confronted by Belle, a prostitue who enjoyed keeping company with Rhett. Disgusted with how low she's sunk, she's on her way back to Aunt Pittypat's when she meets Frank Kennedy, her sister Sue Ellen's beau. Learning that Frank has done very well for himself, she plys him with affection and finally secures a marriage proposal, to which she accepts, thereby securing Tara's future indefinitely.Months later, Scarlett is shocked when she sees Rhett Butler while she's running Frank's store, free from the Yankees and amused that she has rushed into yet another marriage with a man that she doesn't love, much less the fact that she stole him right out from under her sister's nose.After Frank Kennedy is killed during a Ku Klux Klan raid on the shanty town after Scarlett is attacked, Rhett saves Ashley Wilkes' and Dr. Meade's life, whom were both active members of the KKK by alibiing him to the Yankee captain, a man whom he's played cards with on several occasions.While Scarlett is torn with guilt of causing the death of her second husband, Rhett appears and offers a marriage proposal, promising to give her everything. Scarlett accepts for the money while Rhett secretly hopes that Scarlett will eventually return the love he's had since the day he saw her at Twelve Oaks.In the course of the novel, Rhett becomes increasingly enamored with the survivalist instincts of Scarlett O'Hara in the chaos surrounding the war.Like Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon from Absalom, Absalom!, Rhett decides to join in the Southern cause, but unlike his fellow Confederate, Ashley Wilkes, Rhett is not spiritually paralyzed by the South's loss.Rhett takes leave of Scarlett after rescuing her and Melanie Wilkes from the burning of Atlanta, expressing his desire to fight alongside the South and its lost cause. Scarlett cannot comprehend Rhett's sudden decision to fight, which underscores her total rejection of the Southern chivalric ideal.Scarlett takes her burdens on alone, and it hurts Rhett that she won't just lay them at his feet as he would carry them for her. Rhett discovers that though she has married again, Scarlett still harbors her infatuation for the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes, Melanie's husband.Later, when Frank Kennedy dies during a Ku Klux Klan controversy and Scarlett is guilt-ridden and intoxicated, Rhett propositions her into marrying him. Scarlett accepts his proposal for his money; Rhett realizes this, but accepts it as he understands her opportunistic nature. But her continuing affection for Ashley Wilkes becomes a problem for the couple. When their daughter Bonnie falls off a pony and dies, the tragedy causes a rift between the two which is impossible to bridge.But Rhett is not the type of man to wait forever and twelve years to most people is an eon. He leaves because he knows that this is what he has to do. He has to get away from Scarlett. Her confession of love is something that startles him but is also something that he half expects. He knows that Scarlett could never be happy with Ashley and when she discovers that, he does not want to be around when she throws her obsession onto him. When he finally gets Scarlett's love, he is not happy and leaves with his famous parthian shaft that has since been immortalized: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." The frankly was added in the movie - in the book, the line merely reads, "My dear, I don't give a damn."In a sequel called Scarlett, written by Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett finally succeeds in getting Rhett back.。

Review of the Scarlet LetterJane Class 3 1202050201312 The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American writer.This novel is his masterpiece. It is set in 17th-century New England under the colonial rule in North America. The book is based on a Boston love tragedy during the years 1642 to 1649.In this novel, it mainly tells us the different fate of three main characters, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hester was forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” on the breast of her gown because of adultery. However, she refused to reveal her lover’s identity. It made her husband, Chillingworth, fly into a rage. He swear to revenge. Then he found that his wife’s lover is the respectable young priest, Dimmesdale. He got close to the young priest and torture him psychologically. Finally the priest could not stand the inner torment. He confessed publicly a fact that he was Hester’s lover. Then he died in Hester’s arms. Frustrated in his revenge, Chillingworth got sick. After one year, he died.This novel is an 1850 romantic work of fiction. However, in my eyes, it not only is a story of love, but also is a story of soul. What impress me deeply is the human nature, the characterization, and the psychological description. The images of the three main characters are vivid and lively.Hester Prynne, a beautiful woman who born in a British crumbling aristocratic family, was married to a monstrous old scholar. When her husband could be dead or alive, she was fallen in love with a priest and gave birth a daughter. It breached the Puritan doctrine. So she was found guilty. She must to wear a scarlet letter “A” in her lifetime for her sin. But she would not reveal her lover, and raised the child by herself.Here we will praise her for the resistance of the unreasonable marriage system, and impress by her great love. Perhaps when a woman deeply love a man, she will sacrifice all of hers for her love. She can use her fragile body to protect her love one. She not only can sacrifice everything but also can endure everything for love, and enjoy it. In this sacrifice, she does not care about the secular and the personal interest. It reflects the real greatness and nobility.She was so amazing that I could not find a suitable word to praise her. But actually she impressed me than anyone else ever done. When facing the disastrous punishment, she just bear it by herself. Although the punishment is cruel for a woman, she did not escape from it. Besides, she did not show her weakness to gain people’s sympathy. She also did not committed suicide as I imagine. Because as for a traditional Chinese woman, she probably tend to this extreme way. She would give up her life because of shame, and want to use her death to end this scandal stain life. However, Hester just accepted the punishment calmly and continue the pursuit of freedom and happiness. She was so inviolability that to look down upon the so-called Puritans.As a woman, a mother, she was great. After sacrifice her everything, the only fortune Hester got was her daughter, Pearl. She love Pearl. Pearl was her pursuit of beauty. However she worried about the groundless sin would come upon her daughter.So she atoned for love. She devoted her life to serve society, though those who accepted her help are ungrateful to her.Arthur Dimmesdale, a real martyr, was a coward who dare to love but afraid to admit his love. Although he was wretched, he overall was a good man. He struggled in pain, wasted his life, played a dual role, saint and sinner. When he could not tell who was good or bad, he stick to his inner secret. He dare not to disclose his sin. So he suffered from his inner guilty. However, from his respective, I think we should understand him. Because his faith not only supported him, but also imprisoned him in a cage.Roger Chillingworth, a crazy avenger, was real evil. Once he was thoughtful, well-read, and curious old scholar. Now he was toward to the abyss of evil because of hatred. In order to revenge, his erudition became a weapon. And all his good quality tend to be crazy. To him, I just felt pity. Although he was a boring people, he was learned and calm, wise and respected. However, because of hatred, he became evil, disgusting and crazy. It is a tragedy.This story has a sad ending but with sense of reality. The death of the priest and Chillingworth has its own cause. Dimmesdale is a pure pious puritan. After he had affair with Hester, he became a sinner. The sin torture him mentally and physically. It ruin him. Chillingworth was crazy. His hatred afflicted him day and night. He devoted his whole life to revenge. It destroyed him.But Hester was strong-willed, stoic and more tolerant and independence. She suffered a lot, by never was defeated by the suffering. She was goodness and willing to help others. Finally, she changed the meaning of the scarlet letter A, from “Adultery”to “Able” .Maybe only the good people could deserve a good end.。

姜若琳/Rowling Class 3 091315271 What are the main aspects of Scarlet’s Character in Gone With the Wind.Scarlett has distinctive characters, she is complicated. On one hand, she is vain, rebel, selfish, egocentric, self-centered and self-indulgent, on the other hand, she is imbued with wise, inherited brave, determined, independent, responsible, obstinate and self-striving gleams. All these characters have a deep and determinative influence on her life and love. Scarlett’s characterization shows up in four periods in Gone With the Wind.1At the beginning of the novel living in Tara, Scarlett is a wild and strong-willed lady. She is not only charming and attractive, but also vain, willful, naive and selfish. When Scarlett first lives in Atlanta, the disappointment of love and the suffering of the war make her become brave and responsible, and she is selfish and carefree. Coming back to her home Tara, in order to keep her home around, Scarlett becomes brave, determined, obstinate, self-striving and greedy. Then when Scarlett goes back to Atlanta, she is independent, determined, indomitable and self-centered. This essay will show this from these four aspects.(165)Living in Tara, Scarlett is a young lady. In the period before war, Scarlett was a little girl only worried about her love fairs, she had no ideas about the war. As we can see, Scarlett didn’t believe there will going to be any war, she was really boring about it, what she reply to the twins who were excitedly talking about the war is only making a mouth of bored impatience. 2Being a charming young lady of the old South, Scarlett cares more about the coming barbecues party, how she looks, her new green flowered-muslin dress, and of course her deeply loved prince Ashley. Of course the elegant and leisure life make her selfish and vanity. For love Scarlett is stubborn and wayward. She had a romantic emotion to love. But, at that time, ladies and gentlemen’s demeanor formed the atmosphere of the traditional society. Her parents want to make her a lady, a traditional one, but to Scarlett, it is really a disaster, in front of her parents, she could bear to pretend, but she went her own way at other times, that’s her, a real Scarlett, an very proud own, extremely conceited but very charming Scarlett. 3So no surprising that all the young men loves her, include Rhett Butler. Inhis eyes, Scarlett is not very beautiful, not very graceful, and even a little veining, but it’s just this woman attacked his heart, this strong will and cat like woman.(250)Living in Tara, In this period of life, Scarlett is a young lady. She is a vain, charming, selfish, willful, carefree, egotistic and self-impotant girl.She could never long endure any conversation of which she is not the chief subject, and she hopes that every man should pay attention only to her.4Because of her father Gerald’s spoiling, Scarlett possesses manly characters. She rides horse and climbs trees. Scarlett disobeys her mother Ellen and Mummy Jincy’s orders and words. Whatever she wants to do, she does. In the early life in Tara, Scarlett’s characters develop freely. Her egotistic, stubborn and vain characters come into being. Scarlett thinks that she is the center of the world and all the boys must fall in love with her. Scarlett falls in love with Ashley at the first sight.5When twin brothers tell her that Ashley and his cousin Melanie, a plain and gentle girl from Atlanta, are going to be married. Shocked, Scarlett sits in silence until the two leave, without inviting them to dinner. Ignoring her mammy’s cau tions against the cold, she goes to meet her father to confirm the news. In this period, Scarlett’s important parts of her complex characters are her selfishness and contravention to the conventional manner. . She had never, never catch another beau and ev erybody’s laugh fit to die at her, and it would hurt Melanie, because she loves Charles so much, and it would hurt Stu and Brent.‖ 1 What a self –important girl, she never considers others’ feelings. All her words and deeds show that Scarlett’s these chara cters.6(262)In the first period of living in Atlanta. Scarlett becomes brave, selfish, carefree, self-centered and responsible. In this period,’s selfish character develops, so does her favor to free and happiness. Scarlett’s contravention also grows. Me anwhile, the changing of her circumstance also gives her a lot.7She knows how to live in hard times. Scarlett’s responsible character also can be found in this period of living in Atlanta.Two months later, going away from war, Charles, Scarlett’s husband dies of the measles. Scarlett becomes a widow. With complicated feelings, Scarlett goes toAtlanta. 8Atlanta is the very city that provides a place to develop Scarlett’s characters.She does not like to talk about the war. She dislikes the war. In fact, she does not care about the war. She just cares about herself. As a young widow, her thoughts and activities are the same as before, but her status of a widow prevents her from dancing, which she always loves to do.Scarlett also works as a seller and a nurse. To be a seller or a nurse, does not mean that she wants to help others or serve her motherland. ―Certainly, there was nothing romantic about nursing. To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.‖93 She just wants to make herself be busy and release her depression of being a widow.Atlanta is falling. Scarlett wants to turn back to Tara for help.10However, Melanie is going to give birth. Without the doctor’s help, Scarlett becomes a midwife and delivers her child. What a brave girl! She does not leave Melanie alone. She keeps her promise.(264)In the second period of living in Tara Scarlett becomes Brave, selfish, greedy, determined, obstinate and self-striving. This period of living is a turning point of’s characters and life. She is no longer a willful and vain widow, but a brave, determined, obstinate, self-striving and greedy proprietor. She shows her incredible willpower and determination .The people who live in Tara are shocked by her change. Readers are also moved by her braveness and determination. Arriving home at Tara, Scarlett finds the house in ruins, the food gone, the crops burned, most of the slaves run off, her mother Ellen dead, her father Gerald with dementia, and her two sisters sick with typhoid. She tries every means to save Tara. She grasps the reins of authority and tries to turn the place around. She forces her family and the slaves to tend fields and pick cottonThe second period of living in Tara urges Scarlett to grow up a lot. A greedy, determined, obstinate and self-striving Scarlett can be found in this period. In the second period of living in Atlanta Scarlett becomes selfish, independent, determined, indomitable and self-centered .This period is the summit of the development of’s characters. Scarlett’s philosophy makes a big change, because of the disappointment of love and the sufferings of war and life. Finally she finds that Rhett is the man who she loves heartily, however, it is too late — Rhett already losesheart and leaves her. But Scarlett is strong and confident. Through her persistent trying, Rhett comes back to her in the end. She says:―After all, tomorrow is another day.‖11(265)Scarlett’s character is complicated. She is brave, determined, obstinate, independent and self-striving. All these characters have a deep influence on her life and love. She claims to strive and compete to gain success, even deceive and speculate others. She is a successful self-fighter and pragmatist. At the beginning of the novel living in Tara, Scarlett is a wild and strong-willed lady. She is not only charming and attractive, but also vain, willful, naive and selfish. When So in my viewpoint, the whole novel shows the four periods of the characterization of Scarlett. From a young charming, vain and self-centered girl, Scarlett gradually grows up as a brave, determined, hard working, independent and self-striving woman, urged by the war and life.(120)Introduction and Conclusion 163+120;Theory and background information 250;Body 262+264+260;Altogether 1321Endnotes1Margaret Mitchell. Chapter 6. Gone With the Wind. Yilin Press, 1996, 1282Mitchell. 1853Angelis. Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know [M]．Beijing: ZhongxinPress,2003,1004姚金红. 解析〈乱世佳人〉中郝思嘉的女性主体意识[J]. 西安文理学院学报, 2006, 9 5纪丽丽. 两个女权主义者的命运——王熙凤与郝思嘉的对比研究[J]. 西南师范大学学报, 2006,56丁芸. 英美文学研究新视野[M]. 杭州: 浙江大学出版社, 2005, 687荆兴梅.〈飘〉的女性主义解读[J]. 江苏科技大学学报, 2005,58Clinton, Catherine. The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century [M]. 1994,.489Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind [M]. The United States of America, reprint ,1973. 36. 10Baym, Nina.. Feminism and American Literary History [M]. New Y ork: Rutgers University Press. , 1992,8011张京媛.〈当代女性主义文学批评〉[J]，北京:北京大学出版社.1991,67。

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An Analysis of Symbolism in The Scarlet LetterAbstractNathaniel Hawthorne is a great romantic novelist in America in the 19th century. As a great roman tic novelist, Hawthorne is outstanding in handling application of symbolism. The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne's most important symbolic novel, in this work, Hawthorne uses the symbolism so skillf ully that it enhances the artistic effects of his work greatly. Symbolism runs through the whole nov el. The most important symbol is the scarlet letter itself. In order to display the theme, symbolism plays an important role. Some of the symbols are obvious while some obscure, but no matter what they are, they are all out of the author’s deliberate imagination .So without the symbolism, the the me of the novel cannot be expressed so vividly and impressively. This thesis mainly concentrates on symbolism.Key words: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, symbolism,I.IntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne was one of the leading American writers of his century. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850.The novel, with the background of New England life in Colonial period, de scribes a young girl called Hester Prynne, who is bound up with the illegal marriage, and publicly exposed for adultery, however, she reconstructs herself in spirit owing to atoning for her crime for a long time.Hawthorne remarkably handles the puritan background, and carefully unfolds the deep shadows from which the grim tragedy naturally proceeds. Moreover, all those moods are woven s o consistently, naturally and harmoniously into the story that its characters, action, and setting blen d into a delicate but enduring work of art.II. Symbolic “A”In the novel, the scarlet capital letter “A” changes its meaning many different t imes, so it’s ambiguous. This change is significant. It shows growth in characters and the commun ity in which they live. The letter “A” begins as a symbol of sin. It then becomes a symbol of solitu de and alienation, and finally it becomes a symbol of the word “Able”,“Angel”, and “Admirable”.The letter “A” is the first letter of the word “Adultery”. It is considered as “the mark of guilt” w hen it appears at the first time, for Hester commits the crime of adultery, in accordance with the ste rn puritan laws she is made to stand in the public scaffold with her illegitimate child and to wear t he letter A embroidered on her dress. The puritan treatment continues. As Hester walks through th e streets, she will be looked down upon as if she is some sort of demon from hell that commits a te rrible crime. This letter is meant to be worn in shame, and to make Hester feel unwanted. “Here, s he said to herself, had been the scene of her guilt, and here should be the scene of her earthly punis hment.” [1] Hester is ashamed of her sin, but she could not escape it. Though she is ashamed, she also receives her great treasure —Pearl, as her only source of survival! She is a very strong woma n to be able to hold up so well against what she must face. Other people will have fled Boston, and seek a place where no one knows of her terrible sin. That Hester chooses to8 stay there shows a lot of strength and integrity of her. The scarlet letter “A” also stands for Hester’s lonely life in New England. After she is released, Hester lives in a cottage near the outskir ts of the city. “It had been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned, because the soil about it was t oo sterile for cultivation, while its comparative remoteness put it out of the sphere of that social ac tivity which already marked the habits of the emigrants.” [2] Hester’s social life is virtually eliminated as a result of her shameful history: However, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it. Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came to c ontact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind. She stood apart from moral interest s…seemed to be the sole portion that she retai ned in the universal heart. [3] Hester has no friends in the world, and little Pearl is the only co mpanion of her lonely life, so the scarlet letter “A” is also a symbol of the words “Alone” and “Ali enate”.Later the scarlet letter “A” also stands for Hester’s ability and virtuous hearts. So the scar let letter “A” changes its meaning into being “Able”,“Angel”, and “Admirable”. Hester is skillful in her beautiful needlework. The scarlet letter first shows her terrific skill. She stitches a large A o nto her dress with gold tread, giving the letter an air of elegance. And her excellent needlework for the rich allows her to maintain a fairly lifestyle. Furthermore she tries her best to help the poor and the9 sick although she is really poor too: The letter was the symbol in her…so much power to d o, and power to sympathies…that many people refused to interpret the scarlet letter “A” by its orig inal signification. They said that is meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman’s stre ngth… [4] Gradually, people begin to regard Hester as a diligent kindhearted and able woman. “Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge? It is our Hester—the town’s own Hester—w ho is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!” [5] Till now Heste r becomes a highly respected person in puritan society by overcoming one of the harshest punishm ents, the scarlet letter. This object on her bosom, however, does the exact opposite of that which it was meant for. Eventually, Hester inverts all the adds against here due to her courage, pride and ef fort. Hester went beyond the letter of the law and did everything asked for here in order to prove t hat she is able. At last, Hester became quite a popular seamstress, admired all over the town of Bo ston for her work. Thou, the letter “A” meant “Angel” in their eyes. The changes in The Scarlet L etter are significant. They show the progressive possession of her sin, her lonely, and her ability. H ester is a strong woman who goes through more emotional torture than that of most people go thro ugh in a lifetime.11 on the edge of the woods. It shows that Hester does not live under the strict puritanical mora l code, but rather tries to live in a place of limbo between the moral and the immoral universe simu ltaneously. The stream in the forest also has its special meaning. In the chapter nineteen, Pearl refu ses to cross the stream on the other side of the boundary, even though her parents think they can ru n away. “I have a strange fancy, that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again.”[9] This brook is the boundary of two world—the child and the parents; And it shows that the two lovers an never really meet their daughter. As the author menti oned earlier, The Scarlet Letter is pervaded with symbolism. Some prominent and complex symbo ls have already been revealed. However the novel also revolves around two other major symbols: l ight and darkness and the scarlet letter A! The novel is filled with light and darkness symbols bec ause they represent the most common battle of all time, good versus evil. When Hester and her da ughter are walking in the forest, Pearl exclaims: “Mother, the sunshine does not love you. It runs a way and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now See! There it is, playin g a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet.”[10] At that time Hester tries to stretch her hand into thecircle of light, but the sunshine vanishes. This short scene actually represents Hester’s daily strug gle in her life. The light represents what Hester wants to be, which is pure. The movement of the li ght represents Hester’s constant denial of acceptance. Hester’s lack of surprise and quick suggesti on to go into the forest, where is dark, shows that she never expected to be admitted and is resigne d to her station in life.V. Conclusion In closing, one of the most important reasons that The Scarlet Letter is so well kno wn is the way Hawthorne leaves the novel open to be interpreted several different ways by his abu ndant use of symbolism. This background, together with a believable plot, convincing characteriza tion, and important literary devices enable Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter develop the theme of the heart as a prison. Hawthorne describes the purpose of the novel when he says: “Be tr ue! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worse, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”[18] The theme is beneficial because it can be put into term in today’s world. Th e Scarlet Letter is one of the few books that will be timeless, because it deals with alienation, sin, punishment, and guilt, emotions that will continue to be felt by every generation to come. At the sa me time, through the tragic love between Hester and Dimmesdale, Hawthorne gives us the deep m eaningful lesson: marriage should be based on pure love with aim to make both18 men and women feel happy in their relationship.。

红字人物角度分析英文Characters in The Scarlet LetterHester PrynneThe heroine in the novel. The story is all about her life. And she wore the scarlet letter on her breast. She was a heroine, because she lived bravely in the society with deep gender differences and confirmedly chose the true love which is suitable for her. She was a heroine, because she was a real individual and dare to challenge the gender concept in people’s mind with her own action. Moreover, she was not only the representative of independence but of kindness and happiness. She had kept her shirt on for several years and did good deeds, which won people’s forgiveness and respect. And the scarlet letter “A” stood for adultery on her breast finally became the symbol of angel(A).DimmesdaleDimmesdale was a minister but actually the lover of Hester and Pearl’s father. The key to understand the character Dimmesdale is not his piety but his excessive reliance on the impact from social ideas, which locked himself in a moral prison. He sank into a self-torture because of his sense of guilty. The scarlet letter stood for adultery brand both on his breast and his heart. In most of chapters he was the helpless victim for he was a sinner in his theology creed which led him to find a way out through religion spirit. He dared not to hold the opposite idea with society. On account of the loss of his statue, he was not brave enough to admit the relationship with Hester. He was divisive deep in his mind. Seriously speaking, he was the prey of Puritanism.ChillingworthHe is Hester’s ex-husband and the real villain in the novel. He is the so-called represent of knowledge and the most determined supporter of a male ideology in the Puritan society. In other word, he could be seen as the maker of the scarlet letter. He was like the Satan since he spied and torment Dimmesdale’s heart. He was guilty because he violated the most beautiful and natural desire of humanity. As a result, his destiny was miserable that he died soon after Dimmesdale killed himself.Pearl。

An Analysis of the characters in Hawthorn’s The Scarlet letter Abstract: Nathaniel Hawthorn, one of the greatest novelists, short story writers in the world, is the first American writer of fiction who discovers American literature its inwardness. The Scarlet letter is one of the Hawthorn’s representative novel. And this novel focus on the nature of guilt, exploring both the hypocritical impulse in all man kind and the effects of sin. This thesis includes three parts aiming to give a comprehensive analysis of the main characters which shows that the guilt is universal and the complexities and ambiguities of people’s choice.Key Words: sin guilt self - atonement retributionIntroduction:The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusettsduring the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.Rita K. Gollin delivers in his “Nathaniel Hawthorn”: before twentieth-century, early reviewers read the novel as a moral book, as an allegory; in the early stage of twentieth-century, recently, Post-structuralism, feminist and literary historians of the new Hawthorne. Reader-response theory shows how Hawthorne’s book “create”his readers; symbol of scarlet letter that scientists can refer to: hieroglyphs resist deconstrucyion that final interpretation of his text, his views on love and the performance of his rhetoric to re-Assessment(Nathaniel Hawthorne,2212).Henry James once said of the novel, “It is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has in the highest degree that merit which I have spoken of as the mark of Hawthorne's best things--an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...One can often return to it; it supports familiarity and has the inexhaustible charm and mystery of great works of art.”To sum up, different researches have different viewpoints and they analyze the story from the different perspectives, and all give fruitful materials. However there are few who ever have made a thorough study of the character depiction in the novel, therefore this thesis attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of the protagonist character so as to make a better understanding aboutthis novel.1.Hester PrynneHester is the book’s protagonist and the wearer of the scarlet letter that gives the book its title. The letter, a patch of fabric in the shape of an “A,”signifies that Hester is an “adulterer.”As a young woman, Hester married an elderly scholar, Chillingworth, who sent her ahead to America to live but never followed her. While waiting for him, she had an affair with a Puritan minister named Dimmesdale, after which she gave birth to Pearl. Hester is passionate but also strong—she endures years of shame and scorn.The character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner. She has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her natural life. Hester "was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance... she had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off sunshine with a gleam" . Her face was "beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion" . She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven.Hawthorne makes Hester a heroin and survives to a tranquil old age just by expiating her offence. She wore the scarlet letter A, somewhat willingly, for the purpose of confessing her sin, of meditating and of reforming herself. On this point, Mark Van Doren’s comments about Hester, in my interpretation, agree with Hawthorne’s original intention. Doren said that she is “heroic in size and strength…Although she came to be Puritanism’s victim, she never surrendered the integrity of her soul. Neither did she complain of her fate. Her fate was to waste her life, yet we do not feel in the end that her life was wasted. Rather it is known, she is immortal.”⒄Each Character has a secret sin that he or she wishes to confess and each of those sins affects the character that committed that sin as well as other characters in the story.2.Roger ChillingworthAs his name suggests, Roger Chillingworth is a man deficient in human warmth. His twisted, stooped, deformed shoulders mirror his distorted soul. From what the reader is told of his early years with Hester, he was a difficult husband. He ignored his wife for much of the time, yet expected her to nourish his soul with affection when he did condescend to spend time with her. Chillingworth’s decision to assume the identity of a “leech,” or docto r, is fitting. Unable to engagein equitable relationships with those around him, he feeds on the vitality of others as a way of energizing his own projects. Chillingworth’s death is a result of the nature of his character. After Dimmesdale dies, Chillingw orth no longer has a victim. Similarly, Dimmesdale’s revelation that he is Pearl’s father removes Hester from the old man’s clutches. Having lost the objects of his revenge, the leech has no choice but to die.Ultimately, Chillingworth represents true evil. He is associated with secular and sometimes illicit forms of knowledge, as his chemical experiments and medical practices occasionally verge on witchcraft and murder. He is interested in revenge, not justice, and he seeks the deliberate destruction of others rather than a redress of wrongs. His desire to hurt others stands in contrast to Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin, which had love, not hate, as its intent. Any harm that may have come from the young lovers’ deed was unanticipated and inadvertent, whereas C hillingworth reaps deliberate harm.3.Arthur DimmesdaleArthur Dimmesdale is a respected minister in Boston and the father of Pearl. While Hester waited for her husband to arrive from Amsterdam, she met Dimmesdale and had an adulterous affair with him, which led to the birth of their daughter. While Hester is publicly shamed for the adultery, Dimmesdale must suffer the ignominy quietly since no one knows of his culpability. The suffering begins to take its physical toll, especially since Hester's husband Chillingworth seeks to destroy Dimmesdale and is a constant reminder of the guilt and shame he harbors from his affair with Hester. At the very end of the novel, Dimmesdale admits to being Pearl's father and reveals that he has a scarlet letter branded into his flesh. He dies upon the scaffold while holding Hester's hand.Arthur Dimmesdale, like Hester Prynne, is an individual whose identity owes more to external circumstances than to his innate nature. The reader is told that Dimmesdale was a scholar of some renown at Oxford University. His past suggests that he is probably somewhat aloof, the kind of man who would not have much natural sympathy for ordinary men and women. However, Dimmesdale has an unusually active conscience. The fact that Hester takes all of the blame for their shared sin goads his conscience, and his resultant mental anguish and physical weakness open up his mind and allow him to empathize with others. Consequently, he becomes an eloquent and emotionally powerful speaker and a compassionate leader, and his congregation is able toreceive meaningful spiritual guidance from him.Ironically, the townspeople do not believe Dimmesdale’s protestations of sinfulness. Given his background and his penchant for rhetorical speech, Dimmesdale’s c ongregation generally interprets his sermons allegorically rather than as expressions of any personal guilt. This drives Dimmesdale to further internalize his guilt and self-punishment and leads to still more deterioration in his physical and spiritual con dition. The town’s idolization of him reaches new heights after his Election Day sermon, which is his last. In his death, Dimmesdale becomes even more of an icon than he was in life. Many believe his confession was a symbolic act, while others believe Dimm esdale’s fate was an example of divine judgment.ConclusionThrough the analyze of the characters we can see that Hawthorne assumes the universality of guilty and explore the complexities and ambiguities of man’s choice. In this novel, Hawthorn does not intend to tell a love story nor a story of sin, but focus his attention on the novel, emotional, and psychological effects or consequences of the sin on the people people in general and those main characters in particular, so as to know us the tension between society and individuals. Everyone is potentially a sinner, and great moral courage is therefore indispensable for the improvement of human nature. 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