Abstract

Margaret Mitchell, an American modern writer. In her whole life, Gone with the Wind is her only novel. Although Gone with the Wind is very successful, the literary status is not high. In fact, Gone with the Wind which contains distinct feminist tendency is very worthy to be researched.
The author tries to analyze Gone with the Wind from feminist perspective with four chapters. Chapter one introduces Margaret Mitchell and the novel briefly. Chapter two briefly presents the definition of feminism and the history of feminist literary criticism. Chapter three analyzes Gone with the Wind from feminist perspective through three specific female roles, Scarlett, Ellen and Melanie. The last chapter is the conclusion. The author sums up the whole paper and also concludes that Gone with the Wind is a significant feminist literature.
In short, Gone with the Wind is worthy of our further research from a feminist perspective. The distinct feminist tendency of Gone with the Wind is worthy of our research and exploration.

Key Words:  feminism  feminist literary criticism  Gone with the Wind 

摘要

玛格丽特·米歇尔，美国现代女作家。《飘》是米歇尔唯一一部长篇小说。虽然《飘》获得巨大的成功，但《飘》的文学地位并不高。实际上，《飘》是一部非常值得研究的文学作品，其中包含了强烈的女性主义倾向。
本文包含四个章节并试图从女性主义角度解读《飘》。本文在第一章里对作者玛格丽特·米歇尔以及小说本身作了简单的介绍。第二章概括性的论述了什么是“女性主义”以及 “女性主义文学批评”的发展历史。第三章则通过三位具体的女性角色，对《飘》进行女性主义解读。第四章是结论部分。总结了《飘》包含了明显的女性主义意识。
总之，《飘》值得我们从女性主义角度进行深入研究, 蕴含在《飘》中鲜明的女性主义倾向值得我们去研究和探索。

关键词: 女性主义；女性主义文学批评；《飘》

1.1 Introduction to Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind was written by Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) whose birthplace and living place was Atlanta, Georgia. Before the town of Atlanta was built, Margaret’s family had already managed cotton plantation near Atlanta. When the American Revolution broke out, she and her family lived in the South America. The relatives of Margaret’s had many kinds of careers. Some of them were cotton planters. And some were lawyers. Others were Methodist ministers. Eugene Mitchell, her father, was a famous lawyer. Her mother Mary Isabelle was a suffragist. Her parents were all born in the period after the Civil war. As a result, the Civil War had a deep impact on their lives. At the same time, it also influenced Margaret a lot. When she was a little girl, her family members told some old stories about the Civil War to her, which aroused her great interest. The stories became the best material for her writing. Her mother has a great impact on her. About 1900, Mitchell’s mother develops herself to be one of Atlanta’s leading women’s libbers. She often denounces the discrimination against women，which made the little Margaret a long and deep influence. In Margaret’s childhood, she was educated with feminism by her mother, which had conflicts with her father’s conservative ideas. Mitchell accepted her mother’s feminist thought and abandoned her father’s thought. Thus in her novel, we can always find her viewpoint of women’s independence and equality with men.