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the analysis of love view in gone with the windabstract: margaret mitchell is a great novelist in the us history. gone with the wind, one of the most famous love novels in the history of american literature and also the world, is written by her and it is margaret mitchells only novel. this novel had the heroine scarletts imbroglio love and life experience as the main line, represented the south plantation economy from flourishing to collapse, the slave owners life from voluptuous to a dead end, the slave-owning economy had replaced by the capitalist economy. gone with the wind mainly describes the relationship and life experience of main characters, especially depicts the character, love and marriage of the scarlett. margaret mitchells scarlett has a complicated character. her views on love are deeply influenced by her character. her behavior in the love world is affected by her character. through analyzing scarletts character and love views, we could understand that her failure in her love and marriage is not accidental.the first part gives a brief introduction of the paper. the second part makes an analysis of scarletts love views. on the one hand she is an idealist towards love, brave in pursuing her favorite person; on the other hand she is uncertain about love. the third part is about factors that affect scarletts views on love and marriage. the forth part is about the views on love and marriage of college students and some advice to college students. in this part, i introduce the main views of college students and give them some advice based on the analysis of gone wuth the wind. the last part is the conclusion.through analyzing scarletts character and views on love and marriage in gone with the wind, the paper hopes to make young people in deeply thinking and establish proper attitude towards love and marriage. key words: scarlett, love view, character, tragedycontentabstractii introduction1ii scarletts character and views on love and marriage12.1 scarletts character22.1.1 confident and unyielding22.1.2 rebellion32.1.3 selfish and egocentric42.2scarletts views on love and marriage52.2.1. scarletts first marriage with charles52.2.2 the rest two marriages in scarletts life6iii factors that affect scarletts views on love and marriage83.1social background and scarletts situation93.2 the life experience of scarlett103.3 her family environment and the love for the land113.3.1her family environment113.3.2the love for the land12iv the views on love and marriage of college students and some advice based on the analysis of gone with the wind134.1 the views on love and marriage of college students134.1.1 students do not promote early marriage134.2.2 the foundation of marriage should be love144.2 some advice based on the analysis of gone with the wind14v conclusion:15references:15acknowledgements16摘要iiiiiii introductionthe book gone with the wind written by american female writer margaret mitchell is one of the most popular american novels. its sales broke many records among the publishing circles when it was published and now has been translated into more than thirty languages.it is a love story that started from april, 1861, spanning about 12 years, and the background is the civil war. scarlett, the main character whose father owns a big plantation calls tara in the southern state of georgia, falls in love with ashley. but ashley loves his cousin melanie and they get married. scarletts first husband is charles and he dies in the war unfortunately. scarlett becomes a window. in order to make a living and protect her families after scarlett went back to her motherland, she gets married with frank who is shot to death and scarlett becomes a window again. she finally marries rhett butler who really loved her very much. until melanie died did she know that rhett is the only person who she loves and she can count on. but its too late. rhett determined to leave her without hesitation. love view is peoples fundamental views and attitudes about love. it consists what is love, the nature of love, the position of love in social life and personal life, spouse standard and so on. love view reflects the view of life; it has different contents at different period. it develops and exchanges with the development of society. with chinas social and economic development, people are more and more acquisitive. we pay more attention to money and properties. there has been a lot of scarlett kind phenomenon. in order to warn young people, this paper focuses on the analysis of scarletts character and her view on love and marriage.ii scarletts character and views on love and marriage there are two important factors that affect ones views on love and marriage. firstly, ones character has a big influence on his or her love views. what you think and what you do are all depend on your character. 2.1 scarletts character scarlett was born in the mid-nineteenth century, a wealthy plantation owners family of georgia coast in the south. her father was an irish peasant who was cheerful, passionate. he longed for other social and civilization and was very friendly to his servants and slaves. her mother who was a french aristocrat was an elegant and honorable woman with the good education and manners. some parts of scarletts characters inherited from them, but others influenced by the worse environment.2.1.1 confident and unyieldingscarlett is of great confidence. she trusted herself to overcome the difficulties all the time and struggled with the destiny industriously. in the warring years, she delivered a child for melaine toughly and took care of melaine that she ever promised ashley. in the ruins of war with the sky filled with smoke, she drove the carriage to break through checkpoints and some obstruction, went back to tara. she showed much more courage and strength than the general women in that age. during the civil war, she experienced her mothers death, her father suffered dementia, house robbed by yankee. the sky was collapsed instantly for her at that time, but she never resigned herself to the fate.she was a tenacious and unyielding woman. in that hard time, survive becomes more serious than the past, she had to endured big pressure from earning a life. scarlett was the backbone of her family. the whole family depended on her working hard in the field. her concepts changed in the hard life because the memory of hunger was much clearer than these terrible things in her mind, she wanted to feed her family through her hard work that would ensure them a good harvest. for surviving, scarlett killed a yankee who intruded her home and attempted to rob them, and took away the intruders money. scarlett was very different from those people who always lived in the dream of old south and unwilling to wake up to face the reality. she knew that the wealth and happy life had gone already; she had to try her best to raise her whole family and protect them from starving and freezing to death. no matter how hard the life was, scarlett always had enough confidence and unyielding that could conquer all the difficulties.2.1.2 rebellion scarlett was a hybrid and she showed more of her irish fathers hard-headiness than her mothers refined southern manners. she was a rich plantation owners daughter, waited on hand and foot since infancy. though scarlett had pretty and charming appearance, the restless hands and green eyes, her true self was poorly concealed. she accepted the instructions that gave her cultured appearance on the surface. she followed the fair maiden demeanor，but she always ignited the spark of rebellious in her bone every now and then. she liked climbing trees and throwing stones with boys; she hated to learn the rules of gentlewoman in the south; she refused to eat food like a good lady. her manners had been imposed upon her mothers gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy. although initially she tried to behave prettily, but her instinct raised up against social restrictions.when she heard of the news that ashley would marry melanie, she confessed her love to him with little embarrassment. she even mentioned of eloping with him. she forgot the gentle ladys style which her mother and black mammy often told her. scarlett didnt like the other girls waiting life at that time. they waited for mans allegiance and acceptance; waited for the love that from their husbands; waited for their appreciation and compliment. scarlett was completely different from them, instead of waiting she strived for her love actively. scarlett had the courage to against family education of the feudal slave owner and dared to pursuit individual character liberation. it had progressive meaning to broke rules of feudal social system. when ashley refused her love, she was so piqued that she answered charles propose quickly. and she held her wedding before ashleys. but after 7 weeks, charles died, she became a widow. scarlett was full of vigor in nature and longed for freedom. if it made her adhere to widows duty that would equaled to make her into purgatory. she hated the rules of feudal social system that made for widows and challenged the south ethics. so when rhett invited her to dance at the charity ball, she danced with him openly without hesitation. she brought one sawmill and did some business successfully. it is intolerable that women appeared in public earning money, especially for the men. they couldnt accept the women who could defeat them at that time. scarlett ignored what people said and just did what she believed. her success proved that woman had the same intelligence and brightness as men. and her action was a heavy blow to the men-centered society. this spirit of rebellion had progressive significance at that day. 2.1.3 selfish and egocentricmost of scarletts life was being adored by others. she was always the center and focus among the people wherever she went because she knew that beautiful appearance could attract men. so she always used her appearance to get mans favor to achieve her aims. she was so vanity that she often flirted with different man and never cared about other girls feeling at the party, so girls were often hostile to her and didnt like her. when she got into trouble and went to find rhett for help, she ripped off the curtain that her mothers only remained and made it into a dress. she dressed up very well to meet him. in fact, she wanted to borrow some money from him for taras taxes but she failed. fortunately, she met with frank, her sisters fiance, who had a store and some money that could pay for taras taxes at that time. she used her beauty once again and some stratagems to become mrs. frank. she was so selfish that she didnt care about her sisters feeling, just achieved her purpose.scarlett was suffering the hunger and poverty fully, and also she realized the importance of the money. she became greedy and selfish for making money. when she was in charge of sawmill, she employed the prisoners to work hard and made big profits. she put all energy to the business, sent out her money to mortgage as lone; traded with black men for money; cleaned up the money from the widows. after her husbands death, she married with rhett who was very rich, but she did not love him at the beginning. she got married just for money, did not hesitate to betray her flesh and conscience.scarlett had three marriages. the first time, she married charles just for taking revenge on ashley, the second time, for the taras taxes, she got married with frank, and the last time, she married to rhett in order to live better. the three marriages were her hasty decision and all of them were full of tragedy. 2.2scarletts views on love and marriagelove view is peoples fundamental views and attitudes about love. love view reflects the view of life her views on love are deeply influenced by her character. her behavior in the love world is affected by her views. through analyzing scarletts views on love and marriage, we could understand that her failure in her love and marriage is inevitable.2.2.1. scarletts first marriage with charles scarlett fell in love with ashley deeply when she was 16 years old, because when she flirted with all the young men in the party, ashley was the one who seemed to have the strength of character she admires. he was content with scarletts fantasy for lover, he was an excellent wealthy young man who had blonde and pretty, politeness, and the more important that he refused her. scarlett was a competitive girl; ashleys refusal stimulated her desire. hence, she wanted to get him desperately.in fact, she didnt know ashley at all and didnt understand anything he talked about, she just saw his surface merely, knew nothing about his disposition and thought. she wanted him as simply and unreasoningly as she wanted food to eat, horses to ride and a soft bed on to lay. her love was so loyal, clinging and blind that could make her do everything for him.when scarlett heard that ashley and his cousin melanie, a plain and gentle girl from atlanta, are going to get married, scarlett shocked, sits in silence. ignoring her mammys cautions against the cold, she goes to meet her father to confirm the news. the news is true, she is miserable. scarlett thinks that ashley should love her without dispute, so she determines to confess to ashley audaciously at the barbecue and win him back. her performance doesnt work on ashley wilkes. after being refused by ashley, scarlett transfers all the emotions including love, anger and vanity to charles who is melanies brother. she accepts charles hamiltons propose and gets married before melanie and ashleys wedding. scarlett married charles impulsively simply because ashley rejects her love. 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 flirting with him. and it would just kill honey. she had never, ever caught another beau and everybody laugh to die at her, and it would hurt, because she loves charles so much, and it would hurt stu and brent.” (mitchell, margaret 2001:149)ashley ought to love scarlett, however his love was one-sided, he was attracted by scarletts enthusiasm, but he couldnt accept the side of her anti-morality. but scarlett didnt realize it until melanie is dead, she found that ashley was not a real man she loved but a man embellished and adorned by her imagination. he was so weak and helpless when his wife dead. he was very different from what her. she consumed all her emotions to ashley, but found out it was nothing more than a tragedy at last.to take revenge on ashley, scarlett married charles. charles is a substitute as well as a victim. they didnt gain anything from this marriage, and they didnt feel happy. scarlett never treated charles as her husband. she married him, because it makes her feel more close to ashley. if charles does not die in the war, they will divorce someday, because there is no love between them. 2.2.2 the rest two marriages in scarletts life the second time, she married with frank, her sisters finance. in the cruel war, her home tara has been looted, whats more, her mother has been dead, father has been dull-witted, two sisters are both ill and the slaves have run away. since then scarlett struggles for a living. only if she rebuilt tara, her family and she can survive. when scarlett says why the stomach had a longer memory than the mind, people will understand how poor this family is, but she move on and support the whole family. to pay the tax money- three hundred dollars for tara, she married her sisters fiance frank who has enough money to save tara after failing in borrowing from rhett butler. she goes to rhett firstly because she knows that rhett loves her and more importantly he is rich. scarlett plans to take the advantage of rhetts love to her and her charming to borrow some money. but scarlett fails. besides, this causes her no qualm of conscience. for surviving, scarlett becomes selfish and speculative. she realizes the importance of money and believes that only money can give her safety in the world. after the marriage, scarlett set up a sawmill. she was in charge of the business and didnt respect frank but managed everything all by her own. she didnt love frank, had no feeling toward him, she used to despise him and thought coldly certainly, hes no beautiful, hes old enough to be my father, but hes a gentleman and i believe i could stand living with him better than rhett. certainly, i could manage him easier. at any rate, beggars cant be choosers. (mitchell, 596) between the choice of love and living, she had chosen the latter. this marriage was only a scheme and trade to resolve the living problems. she broke her sisters marriage, neglecting ethics between sisters. anyway she broke all the normal moral ethics. frank was a poor man and he never knew he was just a target of scarlett.scarletts third marriage is with rhett. not long after her second husbands death, she married rhett for her third marriage. she married him because she thought that she would never have to bother about money again, and that tara was safe, the family was fed and clothed, she would be safe. she said “well, money does help, you know, rhett, and god knows frank didnt leave any too much.” (mitchell, margaret 2001:678) rhett: did you say yes because of my money? scarlett: well.yes, partly. rhett: partly? scarlett: well, you know, rhett, money does help, and, of course, i am fond of you. rhett: fond of me?scarlett: well, if i said i was madly in love w