Interpretation of Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind (Ⅱ) | Interpretation of Huang Yuning's Studio

About the author

Margaret mitchell is an American woman writer. This is the only work in history in her life. Gone with the Wind was a great success, and she never wrote again.

Mitchell was born in Atlanta on 1900. Her ancestors lived in Atlanta for four generations, and her grandfather was injured because he took part in the civil war. Many elders have personal experience of this war and often tell her about that sealed memory. From 1922 to 1926, Mitchell worked as a columnist and reporter in Atlanta Sunday, during which he accumulated a lot of historical and living materials until he resigned and rested at home. During his illness, with the encouragement of his second husband, Mitchell began to write for ten years. Before writing, Mitchell had a full understanding of the history of the American Civil War, both emotional and rational, through the dictation of relatives and the accumulation of materials.

About this book

Gone with the Wind is one of the best-selling novels in American history, with a circulation of more than 30 million copies, and it is still the favorite literary reading of Americans. 1936, the novel sold 1 10,000 copies in the first year of publication. Even today, this achievement is an out-and-out "phenomenal" bestseller, not to mention the United States, which was in the Great Depression.

Core content

The story of Gone with the Wind mainly happened during the American Civil War and post-war reconstruction. There are hundreds of characters and several family estates in the novel, and the relationship between the characters is complicated, and the main line and the sub-line of the story are intertwined. The Chinese version of Gone with the Wind is divided into two volumes. The first volume mainly tells the daily life of southern plantations before the outbreak of the civil war until the outbreak of the war. The story in the second volume focuses on the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.

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1. Gone with the Wind is a popular novel with unique charm and epic characteristics, which integrates romantic love, war history and women's growth.

Gone with the Wind is one of the best-selling novels in American history. This movie of the same name, based on the novel and starring Vivien Leigh and clark gable, won the 10 Oscar in one fell swoop, becoming the most successful adaptation in film history.

Gone with the Wind was published in 1936. As soon as the book was published, it became a "phenomenal bestseller" and won the Pulitzer Prize for Novel the following year. The author margaret mitchell was born in Atlanta in the south of the United States. The elders of his family are closely related to the civil war, and years of material accumulation have provided favorable conditions for Mitchell to create this grand novel with the background of the civil war. Gone with the Wind is set in the magnificent American Civil War. The background of the first half of the story focuses on plantations in the south before the outbreak of the Civil War. The social culture and plantation economy in the south collapsed with the outbreak of civil war. The second half of the story is based on the post-war reconstruction period in the south, explaining the difficulties of southerners in the reconstruction process and the collision between old and new ideas. In addition to the rich historical background and magnificent war scenes, the most touching thing in the novel is the love-hate entanglement and tortuous fate between the four protagonists Scarlett, Butler, Ashley and Melanie.

Secondly, the author presents the historical features and social forms of the South during the Civil War from the perspective of the South.

The story of Gone with the Wind began on the eve of the Civil War. At that time, plantation economy and slavery dominated the south. Tara in the novel is a big plantation. There are two kinds of slaves in the plantation in the novel, one is a personal slave with high status, and the other is a bottom slave engaged in productive labor. The former has a high position in the family, like a black mother, no less than a "half master" and is loyal to the master's family. In the description of the situation and status of slaves, Gone with the Wind is very different from Uncle Tom's Cabin, another classic about slaves.

Scarlett, Tara's oldest young lady, learned that her sweetheart Ashley was about to get engaged to her cousin Melanie. Scarlett, stubborn, conceited and beautiful, refused to give up. She boldly confessed to Ashley at the barbecue the next day, but she was ruthlessly rejected by the latter. Almost at the same time, another man who will play an important role in her life-Butler appeared. Although it was a very unpleasant acquaintance-a typical mode of complaint, Mitchell did not devote himself to the emotional development of Scarlett and Butler. From the outbreak of the war to the end of the war, Scarlett quickly experienced two marriages: at the beginning of the war, she got married, had children and was widowed. At that time, the wayward Scarlett prematurely experienced the road that should have been completed by others in life. War, poverty and hunger completely changed Scarlett. Facing the devastated Tara, Scarlett's heart has undergone a qualitative change, and the female consciousness and survival instinct inspired by adversity gradually began to shine.

After the war, a group of new "invaders" appeared in the southern society-these so-called "traitors, * *, parties and contractors" poured into the south in large numbers, engaged in economic speculation, disrupted the market, and instigated liberated slaves to take revenge on their original owners, so that hatred and suspicion grew rapidly in this place, which has always been known for its harmonious relationship between master and slave. It is precisely because of the support of the northern military government that the south was greatly suppressed after the war and the social situation was turbulent. At the same time, another organization that will become a chronic disease in American society-the Klan is also quietly breeding.

Scarlett decisively robbed her sister's fiance, changed from a noble lady to a bold and shrewd businesswoman, and successfully saved Tara. With the increasing consolidation of economic status, Scarlett's true feelings are always nowhere to be placed. She has never fully understood the two most important men in her life: Ashley is like an ideal love. He has been rejecting himself, but I can't help it. Butler, from misunderstanding and missing to misunderstanding and missing again, two people went around and chased each other's tortuous road of love until Scarlett was widowed for the second time many years later. Scarlett didn't realize that she really depended on and really fell in love with Butler until the end. Unfortunately, Ashley always stands between two people. Coupled with the pain of losing her daughter later, under various misunderstandings, Butler's love for Scarlett has been exhausted.

3. Looking at the whole novel, the author is quite successful in characterization and characterization.

As the first heroine of the novel, Scarlett is brave and tenacious, with flamboyant vitality, and shines brightly in adversity; Melanie, who corresponds to Scarlett, is not a green leaf role. She looks ordinary, but she has great perseverance. In times of crisis, she even showed greater courage and boldness than Scarlett. As for Ashley and Butler, these two people respectively represent two diametrically opposite characteristics of the South and the North. The former represents exquisite, elegant and poetic southern culture, while the latter represents enterprising, smart and pragmatic northern spirit. Another major feature of the novel is the dialogue between the characters-a large number of dialogues between the characters not only reflect the characters' personalities, but also promote the plot development, and let the readers quietly learn a lot of information about the historical background and social changes between their parents. The ending of the novel can't help sighing-the author has set an open ending, leaving readers with various reverie about the future fate of the two protagonists, which is more meaningful than simply presenting a tragic or comedy ending.

Fourthly, the popularity of the novel Gone with the Wind is closely related to the wide spread of movies.

As the most popular movie in Hollywood history, the successful adaptation of Gone with the Wind is inseparable from many conditions, such as favorable weather, favorable geographical conditions and harmonious people. In addition to the rapid development of Hollywood film industry and the popularity of popular novels in the 1930s, the proper casting of the film, the deletion of the script, the preservation of the main plot of the novel and the grand scene scheduling all contributed to the immortality of the film. However, the film also sacrificed the essence and depth of the original work to some extent, weakening the background and social contradictions of the novel, which is undeniable.

Although Gone with the Wind has been controversial because of its strong racial prejudice since its publication, time has proved the vitality of this novel. Rereading this classic today will not only help to understand the changes in American political culture and social customs during the Civil War, but also help to understand the historical origin and complexity of American racial problems from another angle and serve the melting pot of the United States.

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1. A large number of dialogues between characters in Gone with the Wind play a very important role. It not only reflects the characters' personalities and promotes the plot development, but also contains a lot of information about historical background and social changes in parents' stories, which is more dense and ambitious than ordinary genre novels.

2. When two people fall in love at first sight in the novel, something often happens later. We just need to think about pride and prejudice.

Although Ashley came back from the war unscathed, his spiritual world has collapsed. He knew that the life in the south, which was as symmetrical as a Greek sculpture before the war, had been shattered, and he could not integrate into the new life after the war and was doomed to be eliminated.

Author: Huang Yuning