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Ruthie Tompson is currently years old, which makes her the oldest living celebrity in the world. As of , William Roache holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-serving actor in a television soap opera, having played Ken Barlow on Coronation Street since Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. After Scarlett has settled down in Ballyhara, she runs into Rhett a number of times—in America while she is on the boat to Boston, at a fair where she admits she still loves him, and at a foxhunt a week later.
He still does not know he has a child. He then seeks her out at a society ball and Scarlett realizes he still loves her.
Lord Fenton , one of the wealthiest men in Europe, pursues Scarlett, wanting to marry her. He wants Scarlett to bear his children after seeing Cat's fiery spirit and fearlessness. He also plans to unite their estates; he owns Adamstown, the land adjacent to Scarlett's.
Angered by his arrogance, Scarlett refuses and orders him out of her house. Scarlett leaves for Dublin for her yearly visit for parties and hunts. The news leaks out about her engagement and a drunken Rhett insults her when she runs into him at a horse race. A friend tells Scarlett that Anne and the baby both died, and she rushes back to Ballyhara hopeful that Rhett will come looking for her.
She finds English there with a warrant to arrest Colum, who is the head of a group of Irish terrorists. Colum is murdered and Mrs. Fitzpatrick sets fire to the English arsenal to avenge him. The villagers, thinking Scarlett is in league with the English, burn her house down. Rhett comes to her rescue and tries to convince her to escape with him, but Scarlett runs around her house yelling for her daughter. When she tells Rhett that he is Cat's father, he helps her search. After finding Cat, the three climb into a high tower on Ballyhara and stay there for the night.
Through the influence of internal and external environment on Scarlett, the characteristics of her rebellious, awakening, strong character and persistent pursuit of freedom and happiness are analyzed.
Feminism , Awakening , Pursuit of Freedom and Happiness. Gone with the Wind is a novel about the civil war by Margaret Mitchell. Scarlett is a woman of ambivalence. On the one hand, she is rebellious and capricious, greedy and vain; On the other hand, she is strong, determined and persistent in love. This character has manifested the American bourgeoisie which is a kind of indomitable spirit, a spirit of daring to be a pioneer that is enterprising as an American.
She is a heroine who is good at building her new life on the ruins of the old world! In Gone with the Wind, the author depicts the diverse character characteristics of Scarlett in different life stages and social backgrounds, revealing the indomitable spirit of women in the face of difficulties and their intimate relationship with the environment. After published, Gone with the Wind usually caused a lot of controversies. There are a lot of people studying and analyzing how Scarlett completes her transformation from 16 years old girl deeply influenced by traditional Southern Womanhood to a serious-minded and far-sighted woman.
And many researchers comparatively analyze Scarlett with Melanie: they are quite different girls, and those differences make their life very different; anyway, attitude is everything. Gone with the Wind is the name of the novel, and Melanie is the wind; she is traditional, graceful and tolerant.
The old South has gone with the wind, and so Melanie. Scarlett was not, she is new, and she is decisive and firm. She is quite an opponent of the old South. New American comes, and so Scarlett. It is not rare to meet some difficulties in your lifetime. If you can overcome them, you are a hero, a strong man. Love and hate intertwined nerd around, while good and evil battled again and again in the ultimate return of human nature into self-transcendence.
Margaret Mitchell is a woman writer. She has strong feminism. We can get it from the novel, especially from Scarlett. Bravery is a great wisdom in one's life. Facing death bravely and going towards death, bravery finally completes the pursuit of the value of death in literary creation and finally surpasses death.
Some researchers comparatively analyze Scarlett with other tragic female characters, for example, Emily from A Rose for Emily , Wang Jiazhi from Lust, Caution and so on. The weak try hard to avoid pain and conflict. They would rather go without than have a hard time in bettering themselves. The characters in these works were more authentic and their characters had both merits and shortcomings. The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the weak.
Life is always ongoing, and those souls that have lost all sense of their true selves, will eventually find their way back home to the Light. Gone with the Wind was considered as a very classic work. But many opponents do not agree with that. In their eyes the novel will never have the chance to enter the scared palace of American literature and Scarlett the protagonist in the novel is an extremely selfish, vain, and merciless woman who will not hesitate to resort to any means in order to reach her ends.
The protagonist Scarlett in Gone with the Wind is extremely distinct meaning of characters in the world literature. She is a true reflection of the American spirit and its culture: the spirit of freedom, strong character and realistic attitude, the spirit of tenacious struggle and courage to face reality and to the pursuit of love is its enduring. Although many people have explored Scarlett from the perspective of feminism, but as time passed, the novel spread more and more widely, sweeps the world and has aroused interest of a large number of fascinated viewers.
And the readers more and more favored the heroine Scarlett, so this issue still deserves to be further discussed. Modern woman should become a powerful life on the road; let yourselves and everything around it better, more beautiful and more meaningful. There are five chapters in this thesis and the main content as follows: The first one is preface, which introduces some background and motive of this research as well as summarization of relative literatures and framework of this paper.
The second chapter gives an introduction to the social and historical background of the society Gone with the Wind. The fifth chapter is the summary and thought of this thesis. No matter what pain and misfortune he suffers from, a real strong character will never sink and drown in the rapids of life. We want to live stronger, and we want to live Not to be outdone in this arena, who strive to create a good stage for their own efforts to decorate their own lives and life.
This chapter is separated into two parts, namely, female characters and feminism, initiates a close-reading of the stylistic features of this novel, and analyzes feminism in the book in different aspects, such as the true feminism, the new feminism, and the self-estimate. Also, it looks into the form and the cause of feminism from the angles of the feminine thought, the feminine mind, the feminine language and the feminine image. It is the hope of the author to bring some new light to the understanding and cognition of this great work.
This classic novel tells us a woman who named Scarlett who is a strong woman. She can bear anything romantic. She hopes Melanie, her sister-in-law, will die when she has childbirth during the war, so that she can get Ashley. But when Melanie had a miscarriage and was dying. She suddenly finds how deep her love is to Melanie. She feels so sorry that she has done something wrong to Melanie, to Ashley and also to her husband Rhett.
She always thinks Ashley and money consist of everything in her life. Making money is her obligation. Selznick did so—although both of the advisers he hired were white men. As Newsweek reports , Selznick took all of this seriously enough to reach out to the Pittsburgh Courier. He informed them that there were no racial epithets in the script of Gone with the Wind , and that several objectionable sequences including one featuring the KKK had been removed.
He also invited journalist Earl J. Morris to the set to meet with the Black actors. These efforts yielded much softer coverage from the newspaper, and the crisis was averted, for the moment. Gone with the Wind was filmed and released during a period in Hollywood where self-censorship was huge. During the s, Hollywood dealt with a number of scandals, and in order to clean up its image it imposed the Motion Picture Production Code known as the Hays Code after Will H.
Hays, who helped set it up. Many aspects of Gone with the Wind were problematic in terms of the Hays Code. You might think that the epic racism on display was one of those troubling aspects, but no one was particularly bothered by that outside of ensuring no actual boycotts were organized.
Instead, two little words caused the film the most trouble. As Filmsite reports , the word "miscarriage" was given a hard no by the Hays office, and was replaced with the word "accident. As Today notes , producer David O.
Selznick knew that the line "My dear, I don't give a damn" slightly reworked for the script was important, and that the Hays office would resist. He wrote a lengthy justification for the inclusion of "damn" and "hell" in the script, getting into the semantics of whether "damn" counted as a curse as opposed to a simple "vulgarism.
Selznick was conscious of the racism in the material and made efforts to placate the Black community and ensure a lack of controversy. But he couldn't change the world, and the world in was decidedly pretty racist. The film studio planned a lavish premier in Atlanta, and the city treated it like a national holiday.
This enraged Clark Gable, who'd become good friends with McDaniel during filming. Gable threatened to skip the premiere himself, but McDaniel—no doubt exhausted after a lifetime of dealing with stuff like that—politely informed everyone she couldn't make the event. Worse, when McDaniel was nominated for an Academy Award, she wasn't allowed to sit with the white actors at the awards dinner. Selznick managed to pull strings to get her allowed into the main hotel to receive her award, however.
Sadly for McDaniel, despite making history as the first Black actor to win an Oscar, she would never be fully accepted by the Hollywood establishment while also being reviled by many in the Black community for what they saw as willfully perpetuating Black stereotypes in the roles she took.
The relationship between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara is one of the best in literary history we just wish it wasn't contained in such a blatantly racist book. He's a self-loathing schemer desperately in love with the young, beautiful Scarlett. She's the fiercely intelligent survivor clinging to the remnants of her old life. In many ways, they're using each other, but you almost feel bad for Rhett because Scarlett never stops loving another man.
Until, as The Washington Post points out , Rhett sexually assaults her.
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