American woman writer Margaret? Mitchell is a writer who is famous in the world and occupies a place in the literary world after writing only one work. Her only work, Gone with the Wind, became the best seller in American novels as soon as it came out. Since the publication of 1936, Gone with the Wind, an American civil war romance novel, has broken all the publishing records at that time. 1937, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize. Later, it was adapted into a film, and even this film became a classic in American film history.
Although American literary circles have been deliberately belittling the literary value of Gone with the Wind, thinking that Gone with the Wind is just a popular novel, the fact that Gone with the Wind has been selling well for decades has won it a classic status. Gone with the Wind continues in America and even all over the world. Twenty-seven years after the author's death, this book still tops the list of hardcover novels in the United States, and gone with the wind, a paperback version, has always maintained the ninth best seller position in the United States. According to statistics, as of 1993, the global sales volume of Gone with the Wind has exceeded 28 million copies, not counting the pirated books of Ganges Sand. Now, Gone with the Wind has been translated into dozens of languages and sold in nearly 40 countries around the world.
1939, Fu Donghua translated Margaret's masterpiece Gone with the Wind for the first time, and named it Gone with the Wind, which has been passed down to this day. Beautiful and brave Scarlett, romantic and persistent Rhett, strong and tolerant Han Melanie, elegant and cowardly Ashley-these names linger in the minds of generations and last forever.
Gone with the Wind is a must-read for women, because there are two female models in this book-Scarlett and Melanie Han-telling us that different women have different powers of conquest, different women have different tastes, but they all have their own unique flavors.
The classic flower of love blooming in the blood rain of American Civil War
One of the outstanding American literary works in the 20th century.
Gone with the Wind is based on the American Civil War and post-war reconstruction in the 1960s, with the love entanglement and life experience of the heroine Scarlett as the main line. It focuses on portraying the attractive, intelligent, competitive, greedy and ruthless female image of Scarlett, the daughter of a big manor owner, and vividly reproduces the process from prosperity to collapse of plantation economy in the southern United States. The life of female slave owners went from arrogance and extravagance to the end of the road, slave owners launched wars crazily until they failed and perished, and the slave economy was finally replaced by the capitalist economy. This is the collapse history of slave society in the southern United States. While describing the life and love of the characters, this book outlines the similarities and differences between the north and the south in politics, economy and culture. With a strong epic style, it can be called a true portrayal of the turning point in American history and has become an enduring love classic.
The author Mitchell has made great artistic achievements in Gone with the Wind with his superb artistic attainments. The characters in the book have distinct personalities, and several protagonists are strongly contrasted and interdependent in personality and morality, which leads to a series of conflicts and many confusing suspense, which makes the story develop one after another and ups and downs. The characters' language is vivid and vivid, with their own characteristics, which makes them real and touching. This dramatic plot is organically combined with the delicate psychological description of the characters, which produces the effect of three-dimensional description and strongly attracts readers.
For a long time, Gone with the Wind did not enter the palace of literary research, but this did not detract from its charm. What made it famous all over the world was the novel adaptation of Gone with the Wind, which won 10 Oscar and became the first classic business card in film history. The images of Vivien Leigh and Gable in Gone with the Wind have become the real Scarlett and Rhett in the eyes of countless people.
Rhett, who usually likes swearing, becomes a gentleman when he faces Melanie. He said Melanie was the only woman he respected and admired in his life.
Melanie's petite body always gives people a feeling of weakness, and her quiet face adds meekness, but no one expected that she would be so brave and strong, no less than Scarlett.
Melanie is perfect. She not only has a kind of trust and tolerance for Scarlett from beginning to end, but also has all the qualities that a good woman should have in her time and place. She is dignified, kind, gentle and virtuous ... It can be said that she is the embodiment of the teachings that southerners believe in. ...
Lost "eternity"
The first time I saw Gone with the Wind, I liked Scarlett and wanted to play Scarlett. I am deeply impressed by Scarlett's courage and self-confidence, and admire her fearless spirit of surviving in troubled times. After reading Gone with the Wind, I still love Scarlett, but I deeply yearn for another noble woman-Melanie.
Melanie is very brave. Although she doesn't have Scarlett's forward momentum, the bravery of a perfect woman in the upper class is fully reflected in her. In the hospital, she took care of the wounded selflessly, bravely donated her wedding ring at the charity bazaar, and criticized Mrs. Mei angrily when she blamed her for not letting Rhett come home. At these times, her strong will even surpassed Scarlett.
But the most important thing in the "Melanie spirit" is still kindness-pure kindness, total devotion to kindness, and supreme goodness that asks for nothing in return and does not doubt. Because the best, has reached a rigid point, there can be no harm. When Scarlett walked into the Wei family under the eyes of condemnation, she ran up and hugged Scarlett. "Melanie spirit" was the highest embodiment and sublimation at this time.
Melanie is the embodiment of the most ideal aristocratic woman in the upper class, but the wind and waves of the times destroyed everything she relied on, and she was unable to resist. Only Scarlett can take root and sprout, so Melanie can only bloom and die quietly like a green leaf. Melanie's death symbolizes the "eternity" of the old times and the "golden age" in people's memory, and will disappear with her in the long river of history and be slowly forgotten.
The yearning for Melanie may be the eternal yearning for the Garden of Eden in the depths of human hearts. (Zhao)
1900165438+1Margaret on October 8? Mitchell was born into a lawyer's family in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her father is the president of the Atlanta Historical Society. During the Civil War, Atlanta fell into the hands of General Sherman of the Union Army in 1864. Later, it became a hot topic among Atlanta residents. Growing up, Margaret always heard her father talk about the civil war with friends and even residents. When 26-year-old Margaret decided to write a novel about the civil war, Atlanta naturally became the background of the novel.
Margaret is studying at Smith College in Massachusetts. Later, because my mother died of illness, the family needed her to do housework and had to drop out of school. From 1922, she began to write for Atlanta Daily with her nickname "Peggy".
After a failed marriage, Margaret married John, the advertising director of Georgia Thermal Power Company, on 1925. Marsh is married. 1926, Margaret had to quit her job as a newspaper because of a leg injury. Encouraged by her husband, she began to devote herself to creation.
The writing of Gone with the Wind has occupied Margaret's life for nearly 10 years. 1In July, 935, Macmillan Company decided to publish this novel, tentatively entitled "Tomorrow is a New Day". Since then, Margaret has spent half a year repeatedly verifying the specific time and place of historical events involved in the novel. Finally, she quoted the American poet Ernest? A poem by Dawson changed the name of the novel to Gone with the Wind.
Women's dignity and love
-thoughts on reading Jane Eyre
In the history of literature, there are many classic works that will last forever, but they can go deep into people's souls like Jane Eyre. It attracts thousands of readers with irresistible beauty and affects people's spiritual world. Even for some people, there are not many works that affect life.
Jane Eyre is a novel with a revolving color, which explains such a theme: human value = dignity+love.
Charlotte Brontexq, the author of Jane Eyre, and Emily, the author of Wuthering Heights, are sisters. Although they live in the same social and family environment, their personalities are quite different. Charlotte Brontexq is gentler, purer and more fond of pursuing something beautiful. Although the family is poor, she lost her maternal love since she was a child, and her father's love is even rarer. In addition, she is short and ugly, but perhaps it is this deep inferiority in her soul that is reflected in her personality as a very sensitive self-esteem. The Jane she described. Love is also an unattractive short woman, but she has extremely strong self-esteem. She is determined to pursue a bright, holy and beautiful life.
Jane Eyre lives in an environment where her parents are dead and dependent on others. She was treated differently by her peers since she was a child, rejected by menstruation, despised by her cousin, insulted and beaten by her cousin ..... This is a ruthless trampling on a child's dignity, but perhaps because of all this, Jane Eyre gained infinite self-confidence and unyielding spirit, an inner personality strength that can be overcome.
Before Rochester, she never felt inferior, because she was a humble governess. On the contrary, she thinks they are equal. She should not be respected by others because she is a servant. It is because of her integrity, nobility and purity that Rochester was shocked by the fact that her mind was not polluted by secular society, and regarded her as a person who could talk to herself on an equal footing in spirit, and slowly fell in love with her deeply. His sincerity touched her and she accepted him. On their wedding day, when Jane Eyre learned that Rochester had a wife, she felt that she had to leave. She said, "I will abide by the laws of the world recognized by God, and I will stick to the principles I accepted when I was awake, and I will not be so crazy as I am now." "I will firmly stick to this position." This is the reason why Jane Eyre told Rochester that she must leave, but from the heart, the deeper reason is that Jane Eyre realized that she was cheated and her self-esteem was teased because she loved Rochester deeply. How can a woman stand being cheated by the person she trusts and is closest to? Jane Eyre withstood it and made a very rational decision. Surrounded by such a powerful love force and lured by a beautiful and rich life, she still insists on her dignity as an individual, which is the most spiritual charm of Jane Eyre.
The novel has a bright ending-although Rochester's manor was destroyed and he himself became a cripple, we can see that Jane Eyre is no longer in the contradiction between dignity and love, but at the same time she is satisfied-she married Rochester with dignity and love.
The novel tells us that the best life of human beings is human dignity and love, and the ending of the novel arranges such a life for the heroine. Although I think this ending is too perfect, even this perfection itself marks superficiality, I still respect the author's ideal of this beautiful life-dignity plus love. After all, in today's society, the realization of the formula of human value = dignity+love is often inseparable from the help of money. People seem to be madly addicted to the love of money and status. Choose rich between poor and rich, and choose not to love between love and not to love. Few people will abandon everything for love and personality like Jane. What Jane Eyre shows us is a simplification, a return to simplicity, a feeling of pursuing wholehearted devotion, and a sense of simplification regardless of gains and losses. It is like a glass of ice water, purifying every reader's mind and awakening readers, especially female readers.