《飘》中女主人公斯嘉丽奥哈拉的性格分析---毕业论文

1、【标题】飘中女主人公斯嘉丽奥哈拉的性格分析【作者】张玉婷 【关键词】性格；原因；女性；启示性格；原因；女性；启示 【指导老师】沈 黎 【专业】英语 【正文】the character of scarlett ohara in gone with the wind.introductionthe sun rises and sets, the day passes, world is changing at an amazing speed. everything in the world is quite different from that of the past, especially

2、in the most development country america. although america is a young country, his importance and strong power could not be ignored. as a leader of the world, his changes are alarming in his history. along with the development of america, american peoples living standard improved as well as peoples s

3、tatus, especially womans status. now woman hold up half of the sky, but back to the american civil war period, the status of woman was very low. in american history, there are many famous literate works which chose woman in focus, reflecting her live, gone with the wind is one of them.gone with the

4、wind is the master work of the american famous female author margaret mithchell. it has been published in 1936 and has been made into a film, which is welcomed by audiences and becomes one of the most well known literate works of america around the world. this work is a story about a southern young

5、woman during the american civil war. in this work, margaret mithchell has an excellent description on the characters, war scenes, and natural landscapes, especially on description of the heroine scarlett ohara, who has been considered as one of the most successful character in american literate hist

6、ory. she was beautiful, sociable, and strong, which were equal to her irrational fantasy about love, fanatical interest in money and no kindness or pity to the weak. margaret mitchell has created a vivid and live scarlett ohara, and this heroines success has made up this fictions popularity.gone wit

7、h the wind is a good work for reader to understand the life, custom, and history of american southern people during the civil war, and its heroine scarlett oharas complexly individual character and her story are also a good chance for modern woman to get good enlightenment. the main characters of sc

8、arletta. merits of scarlett1. skill of communicationscarlett was a very attractive female, and her charm was not only on her beautiful appearance but also on her excellent communication skills.the first aspect of her communication skill was that she liked smiling. smile has an unconscious charm to p

9、eople in interpersonal relationship. it can narrow the distance between strangers, can calm the anger, can beg for mercy and can attract the gentlemen who are young, strong, and handsome. she was smiling attractively when she wanted to build a good interpersonal relationship with men. she understood

10、 how to take advantages from smile and how to hide her true feeling. so no one could accurately understand her for her sweet smiles. for instance, when she heard of the precontract of marriage between melanie and ashley, whom she loved, she had no changes on her face; while failing to attract ashley

11、s attention, she was miserable, yet she also pretended to be an happy and gentle lady.to the outward eye, never had a girl less cause to be miserable. she was undoubtedly the belle of the barbecue, the center of attention, the forbore she was causing among the men, coupled with heart burnings of the

12、 other girls, would have pleased her enormously at any time.1her attitude towards men was also a good side to her communication skills. when she met a guy, or replied someone, she had never refused or accepted, she chose a middle cause to get her own way in mens rights society. scarlett got along wi

13、th men with uncertainly vague response, misleading them with the misconception that,“scarlett has good view on me.” sometimes, in fact, she might think these men were brainless and foolish. her unclear attitude helped her to win high popularity.2. strong willon the second point, scarlett ohara had s

14、trong will. this character was her most outstanding merit. in 1861, the american civil war was broken. after dozens of war weddings in the country, all the young and strong southern men had gone to the frontline, including scarletts groom charles and her love ashely.firstly, she had to take care of

15、his little son wade. because of the war, he was afraid to stay alone, and he followed his mother everywhere. except for her son, she needed to do things for hospital. she attended the wounded solders day and night, bearing the diseases, injury, and blood. and that, because of lack of medical supplie

16、s, linen and cotton bandages were too precious to be thrown away when used, so when off duty, she had to bring home baskets of bloody strips to be washed and ironed and returned for use on other suffers.at the same time, with the promise to ashely, she had to look after ashleys pregnant wife melanie

17、. without any help and experience, she delivered melanie. it was too difficult for a young lady to do so, especially under the artillery attack. scarlett imaged that her homeland tara was safe, and everything had not been changed. however, when she arrived exhaustedly, she had to face the facts: mot

18、her died, two younger sisters were taken down, father went crazy, and slaves were at a complete. seriously, rich family became a poor one, afforded nothing. as a nineteen years old girl, she knew she was the hope of the entire family member, and the fate of tara was in her hand. for the future of th

19、ese people, she had not escaped from the terrible present. she shouldered all the heavy burdens from the serious condition, although, she used to be a princess before this civil war. she had to do housework barefoot, picked cotton under hot sun. hard work had given her blisters on hand and shoulder.

20、 on this poor and serious condition, she had not given up, facing the difficulties firmly with her strong will. for security of her family, she shot the robber, and buried the dead body calmly. the strong will and composure she had expressed are priceless.at the good turn of her new life, her life h

21、ad suffered more blows again. father and her second husband died occasionally, and then she aborted; her little daughter bonnie died accidentally; and her only friend melanie passed away; and her true love, captain rhett butler abandoned her. however, all these misfortunes had not overthrown her. on

22、 the contrary, scarlett, became more strong, she made her determination to rebuild her homeland, having more courage to live, and to face the difficulties. she said that tomorrow was another day. scarlett ohara, this young little womans strong will was surprising.3.high responsibilityanother merit o

23、f scarlett ohara was her sense of responsibility. during the war, she promised ashley that she would look after his wife melanie, so when the northern troop was going to occupy atlanta, she had not abandoned melanie, who was giving birth to baby. yet, she protected melanie and the new born baby from

24、 the northern troops and went across the gunfire city to bring them home. in fact, she should not have done these, because at war period, the first idea of common people was fleeing for life, anyone would care about others, especially the one who was his rival. if scarlett had abandoned melanie and

25、fled back with wade and little slave prissy, she would have not experienced so much difficulties and dangers. but she had not only delivered melanies baby, but also saved her life and her new born child. just for a promise, she fixed permanently that looking after melanie was her responsibility, and

26、 she would do all her efforts to protect her and her baby. without high sense of responsibility, she would never do so.whats more, her consideration for her families also reflected her high responsibility. after her back to tara, she became the female household. being the mother of a timid son, the

27、older sister of two illness sisters, the daughter of mad father, she took all the methods to afford her families. she even swore to protect her families by stealing, robbing or murdering. under the pressure of new landlord, she ingratated rhett, and married frank, who was old, weakness and ugly. all

28、 her sacrifice was acting out of her love and responsibility to her family.to sum up, all these merits decided that she would never be an ordinary woman. of course, the approval of scarlett oharas merits did not mean turning the blind eye to her demerits.b. demerits of scarlett1. irrational fantasy

29、about lovefirstly, she had irrational fantasy about love. this demerit had led her tragedy of love. she fell in love with ashley since she was a child. however, ashley loved his cousin melanie. in order to provoke ashley，scarlett married chares, who was a coward, simple and foolish boy in scarletts

30、mind（unluckily, chares was killed in the war and scarlett became a widow）. this short and false marriage had not given her a clear understand of love and marriage, she still wanted ashley, who was the husband of melanie, so she had ignored rhetts love. even remarried frank，scarlett also missed ashle

31、y day and night. in her memory, ashley was a well-mannered, politeness, handsome, gentle man. unlike other guys, who had crush on scarlett, ashleys lukewarm attitude attracted her. just as what she said“she had never really loved ashley, and what she had done for ashley was a habit formed when she w

32、as a kid.”2 in fact, she did not understand love, and did not know love was a feeling, which could warm her and give her energy to fight against difficulties. this possessive instinct to ashley had made her neglect rhetts love, and misunderstand true feeling of heart. when she lost all the love of h

33、er life, she had found that she loved rhett for a long time, and he was in every moment of her life. however, it was too late, her irrational fantasy about love made her experienced three failing marriages and finally lost her true love rhett.2.fanatical interest in moneyanother demerit of scarlett

34、was fanatical interest in money. in fact, she was a slave of money. she had married three times, and actually, in these three marriages, money was a basic reason. the first time, she married charles, because she wanted to provoke ashley, and knew that charles had much money and a rich family backgro

35、und. for the second time, in order to get money, scarlett planed to marry rhett or to be his lover. when rhett refused her, scarlett had been told that her younger sisters love frank was rich, so she exercised her wits to marry him. and the third time, she married rhett. at first, she did not fall i

36、n love with him truly. she was eager for the extravagant life which rhett could bring to her. when rhett proposed marriage to her, she asked for a very big diamond ring, by which she could show off around her friends.in a word, scarlett tried to earn money by all means. without any doubt, she had be

37、come a rich woman. however, she turned into a cruel woman and ruthless exploiter, and had lost more than what she had owned. for money, her two little kids were afraid of her, all friends left her and no one wanted to make friends with her. she became public the foe and was discussed by the whole to

38、wn. whats more, in order to get money, she disregarded her baby in belly, roding through the dangerous forests and threatened, this horrible experience was led a conflict between south and north citizens, in which scarletts husband frank was killed. so to some degree, franks death is a victim of sca

39、rlett fanatical interest in money. money was the king was deeply ingrained in her mind, and which made her lose family, love, and friends. she did not know“money is the necessary of happiness life, but money is not equal to happiness. the one who owns rich material but poor mental life cannot led tr

40、ue happiness life.”33.no kindness and pity to the weakshe had no kindness or pity to the weak and the defeated confederate soldiers. after the war, many county soldiers came back from the battlefield to atlanta, and these soldiers were“reached as they struggled in from the north of the town, and one

41、 after another, they tottered to the gate, sank down on the green lawn and croaked for water.”4 these soldiers were rumbling with hunger; their clothes were infested with flea; they were homeless and wounded, tired and hungry. many of them didnt have a stitch to their backs. they had sacrificed all

42、to protect their lands and people. although they were defeated by northerners, southerners did their best to help their soldiers.aunt pitty and her family, black and white, stood in the sun with buckets of water and bandages, lading drinks, binding wounds until the bandages gave out and even the tor

43、n sheets and towels were exhausted. aunt pitty completely forgot that the sight of blood always made her faint and she worked till her little feet in their too small shoes swelled and would no longer to support her. even melanie, now great with child, forgot her modesty and worked feverishly side by

44、 side with prissy, cookie and scarlett, her face as tense as any of the wounded.5although melanie had never been strong since baby was born, she was inducing the black slave to put only dabs of food on her plate and give her share to the soldiers. what about scarlett? she did not understand why they

45、 should feed this horde of hungry men. the war was over and they would never again stand between her and danger. so scarlett ordered slave pork that when soldiers were in the house, the table should be set sparely. in her mind, when the soldiers were defeated by northerners, they had no right to eat

46、 her food, to stay at her house. she had no responsibility to these sick men. she detested them, and swore how unreasonable and ridiculous to nurse the sick.at the same time, as a mother, she was ruthless to her own children. under the horrible war, wade had heard too much fire, crying, death, hurt

47、and blood. growing in this war period, he became a timid, coward boy. when he wanted scarletts care, she was always impatient, and wanted to be quit of him as soon as possible. when a robber came to their house, wade was afraid.he ran to her, like a small frightened animal, and clutching her wide sk

48、irt, buried his face in it. she could feel his small hands groping through he folds foe her legs. she started down the stairs, and said fiercely,turn me loose, wade! turn me loose and walk and the child clung the closer.6under this dangerous situation, she had not been a good mother to encourage her

49、 child to be brave. what she had done was to criticize and threaten this little son.she had not shown pity to her son wade, also to her daughter ella. ella was a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey girl. she had never inherited scarletts beauty, but carries her fathers appearance defec

50、ts. scarlett realized that ella was a silly child. she even wanted that ella should been taken away by god. as a mother, no one will want lose her children or abandon them into the worst living, but scarlett ohara, had no kindness to her own children. so wade and ella were afraid of her, and they ha

51、d shown non love and interest in their mother.it is not difficult to see that she had many merits and demerits. now, the author of this paper will analyze the reasons for the formation of scarletts characters.the reasons for the formation of scarletts charactera. hereditary factor“the process of one

52、s character much dependents on her family hereditary genetic.”7 so firstly, scarlett oharas character was formed on the effect of her father gerald and mother ellen.1. father and scarlettscarletts father gerald ohara was the descendant of irish. as the irish, he was charm and vivacity, full of adven

53、ture spirit. gerald was the shortest and youngest child in his brawny family. although he was shorter than his brothers, he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted.“rather, it was geralds compact smallness that made him what

54、he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardly to survive among large ones. and gerald was hardly.”8 from the description, it was not difficult to catch that gerald was a brave, self-confidence and stubborn man, his character had affected scarlett a lot, and she was the ringer fo

55、r his father.at home, scarlett and gerald were as good as old friends. when gerald caught her climbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, gerald did not mention these things to scarletts mother ellen. at the same time, when scarlett

56、discovered her father jumping fences, or learned the exact amount of his losses at poker, she would not mention it to her family. between scarlett and gerald, they had an agreement to cover up for each other, and they agreed the idea that mother was not necessary to know all of daughter, and the hus

57、band could disclose some things to his wife. they had an informal father-daughter agreement to cover what they had done. father had given her a lot. she had learned generous attitude to black slaves, and she also took up his strong will. at that troubled times, she remembered her fathers words, only

58、 the land was as eternal as the sun, so no matter how difficult the situation was, she overcame all the obstacles, and worked hard to protect her land. in fact, she was not afraid of her father, but had proud status in his life. this status made scarlett be self-confidence with arrogant attitude to

59、men and strong aggressiveness to women.2. mother and scarlettmother ellen was another important reason for scarletts character formation. mother had double meanings: she was her parent, as well as the moral principal. to ellen, scarlett had totally contrast attitudes. she wanted to respect and adore her mother as an idol, and she also imaged to rumple her hair and tease her on the