Scarlett：A New Woman In The Old Time-商务英语-毕业论文

Scarlett：A New Woman In The Old Time-商务英语-毕业论文 中国某某某某学校 () 题 目:Scarlett:A New Woman In The Old Time 姓 名 : 0000000 班级、学号 : 0000000000 系 (部) : 经济管理系 专 业 : 商务英语 指导教师 : 00000000 开题时间: 2009-4-10 完成时间: 2009-11-2 2009 年 11 月 2 日 目 录 毕业 设计 领导形象设计圆作业设计ao工艺污水处理厂设计附属工程施工组织设计清扫机器人结构设计 任务书…………………………………………………1 毕业设计成绩评定 表 关于同志近三年现实表现材料材料类招标技术评分表图表与交易pdf视力表打印pdf用图表说话 pdf ……………………………………………2 答辩申请书……………………………………………………3-4 正文……………………………………………………………6-22 答辩委员会表决 意见 文理分科指导河道管理范围浙江建筑工程概算定额教材专家评审意见党员教师互相批评意见 ……………………………………………23 答辩过程记录表…………………………………………………24 课 题 Scarlett:A New Woman In The Old Time 一、 课题(论文)提纲 0.引言 1. 1. 斯佳丽独特的个性 1.1斯佳丽的家庭背景 1.2斯佳丽对社会生活和幸福的不同态度 2. 斯佳丽和其他人物的关系 2.1斯佳丽和瑞特 2.2斯佳丽和梅兰妮 2.3斯佳丽和阿什礼 3. 斯佳丽在内战期间和战后的反叛举动 3.1在重建家园中勇敢和智慧的斯佳丽 3.2战后不守妇道反叛的斯佳丽 3.3执着追求幸福的斯佳丽 二、内容摘要 1 这篇文章主要描述了文学名著《飘》中的女主人公—斯佳丽～她独特的个性～与小说中其他人物的关系～以及她总是被批判)谴责的原因。斯佳丽不同于其他贵族妇女～她聪明)迷人)勤勉并且倔强而坚定。她共有三次婚姻～枪杀了一名正在家中行窃的北方士兵,后来买下锯木厂～自己为卖木材而四处奔波～最后公然地赚取了很多钱。在许多绅士还过着贫困潦倒的生活时～她却获得了成功～这是人们认为最不能接受的事情。她与众不同～因此被谴责～但却是“旧”时代的“新”女性。毫无疑问～如果斯佳丽生活在当今社会～她会很幸福～同时也是我们学习的好榜样。当然～我们不能效仿她的一切,另一方面～当今的评判家应该从怎样在现代社会生存的角度～来对她作出全新的评价。与众不同～并不意味着该被批判。 三、 参考文献 [1] 姚金红. 解析〈乱世佳人〉中郝思嘉的女性主体意识[J]. 西安文理学院学报, 2006,(9). [2] 荆兴梅.〈飘〉的女性主义解读[J]. 江苏科技大学学报, 2005, (5). [3] 富华. 活在名著中的女性[M]. 银川:宁夏人民出版社, 2004. [4] 玛格丽特?米切尔～贾文浩等译. 飘[M]. 北京:燕山出版社～2003. [5] 克洛蒂亚. 斯佳丽研究[N]. 纽约: 纽约客, 1992. 2 Scarlett: A New Woman In The Old Time 00000 Abstract: This paper mainly discusses Scarlett’s particular characters, her secret of survival, her relations with other characters and why she is always criticized. Scarlett, a clever, charming, stubborn and diligent girl, is different from other aristocratic woman. she has been married for three times and killed a thieving soldier, then she buys sawmills by peddles timbering herself and earns a large amount of money. the worst thing is she succeeds in business while other gentlemen lead poor lives. she is different and also cursed. but she was judged as a new woman in the old time. undoubtedly, if Scarlett were in our society, she would live comfortably. meanwhile, she is a good example of survival. although we can not imitate Scarlett in all her ways. on the other hand, critics nowadays should criticize Scarlett in a new way, the way of how to survive in modern society. that is to say, “be different〞is not equal to〝be cursed〞. Keywords: rebellious; different; new woman 0. Introduction Scarlett, the leading role of Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell, always gets mixed reception. however, no matter how 3 selfish, indifferent and cunning or strong, able and clever she was judged as, she is a new woman in the old time. Scarlett is beautiful and charming, has many persuer. but she only “loves” Ashley,though Ashley doesn’t love her. during the war and the reconstruction period,Scarlett acts as a heroine. she survives trial by fire and hunger. but unlike other epic heroes, Scarlett lost, she misses the best friend and lost the best husband in her world. however, Scarlett is Scarlett, a stubborn woman who always says, “Anyway, tomorrow is another day” to herself and then solves the problems. this time, with the spirit of her people who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face. she raised her chin,she could get Rhett back,she knew she could. there had never been a man she could not get, once she set her mind upon him. this is Scarlett, rebel, willful and stubborn, different from other aristocratic woman,she is self-confident, independent, clever and candid～these characters make Scarlett be scolded much by critics, be different and be cursed. 1. Description of Scarlett’s special characters and styles 1.1. the background of Scarlett’s family 4 Scarlett lives in a well-off family. She has a gentle mother, a rich father and a black mummy who is kind to her , all of those makes her a beautiful but spoiled girl. on the one hand, she’ s cleverd,iligent,brave and stubborn. owing to these characters, her actions makes her very welcome in gentlemen but unwelcome in ladies.young Scarlett wants very much to emulate Ellen, but in order to avoid missing joys of life, she will follow her mother only on condition that some day when she was married to Ashley and old, some day when she had time for it. nevertheless, Ellen does influence Scarlett much. on the other hand, Scarlett’s father believes that a man who wants to be rich should be strong and unafraid of work, this conclusion seemed to fit for Scarlett, too. 1.2. Scarlett’s different attitudes to the social life and her happyness antebellum At the age of sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet and charming , but she was, in reality, self-willed,vain and obstinate～she had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except of her mother’s unselfish and forbearing nature. she is high hearted,vivacious and charming, different from other ladies’ elegance～she is beautiful that she has made almost all the young men in the neighborhood court 5 her～she has her own view that she always tries her best to gain what she wants—Ashley or Tara, then Rhett. undoubtedly, she is different, and because of this differences, Scarlett is destined to be cursed—no girl in the county, really liked Scarlett. 2. The relation between Scarlett and other important characters 2.1. Scarlett and Rhett Surely , Scarlett is the soul figure in the novel , however , there are many other important characters . among them , Rhett is Scarlett’s true lover , Melanie is her true friend , and Ashley actually is her illusion. After Scarlett lost her second husband, she marries Rhett, whom she “hates” much, and her neighborhood hate thoroughly. naturally, she is criticized terribly. but to the close of the novel, she lost him when she finally finds that how much she depends on him and loves him—“she must have loved Rhett all along, as an adult loves, not as a girl loves”. Rhett, a 〝rogue〞, Scarlett’s male counterpart, a renegade aristocrat originally from Charleston, as reprehensible as Scarlett in morals, but much her superior by reason of his romantically 6 cynical intelligence. whenever Scarlett’s gumption fails, when she needs money, rescue,consolation or challenge, Rhett appears. he is so powerful that Scarlett even wants to be a man as strong as him. with Rhett beside her, she does not fear anything. as we all know, Scarlett loves Rhett for his sagacity, factualism and muscularity～more than she loves him. Rhett falls in love with Scarlett the first time he saw her. but he knows her, at least he thinks so, he is willing to, indeed he does, and do everything for her except telling her he loves her. he supports her and ridicules her, helps her and leaves her. perhaps Rhett really knows Scarlett’s or women’s characters much. however, he does not know, or fails to grasp Scarlett’ s heart. as foolish as Scarlett is, Rhett believes that her heart belongs to Ashley, always and forever. he also doesn’ t realize that Ashley is a young girl’s dream of the perfect knight. In the final chapter of the novel, Rhett tells Scarlett why his feeling for her has changed: “I wanted you to play like a child—for you were a child, a brave, frightened bull-headed child. I think you are a child. no one but a child would be so headstrong and so insensitive～I like to think that Bonnie (their daughter) was you, a little girl again”. Rhett tells 7 Scarlett this after she admits that her image of Ashley has been a little girl’s illusion～in discarding the illusion, the image from the past, Scarlett discards completely her girlhood, she becomes an adult, the point toward which the novel has been moving. and by the time she has been an adult, Scarlett also lost Rhett. In the final scene between two adults “this was the first time he had ever talked to her in this manner, as one human being to another, talked as other people talked, without flippancy, mockery or riddles”. in this final scene, Scarlett matures, Melanie’s death buries the old pattern of behavior(like she has done). time has brought changes that call for new modes of behavior. the female parent, the old order has passed away. Scarlett, the woman, is free to exert her own vital self and only completely so after Rhett leaves. according to this, Rhett’s leaving is not sad, instead, we should be pleased. he’ s got to go as long as she feels that Scarlett should have remained a child. his leaving is not a mask of strength, but of weakness and of blindness, the blindness that tradition has produced. 2.2. Scarlett and Melanie Melanie is introduced as a tiny and frailly built girl, who 8 gave the appearance of a child masquerading in her mother’s enormous hoop skirts. she remains a frail girl, her breasts undeveloped, her body unable to deliver a child and yet she taking care of those who ostensibly protect her—Ashley, Scarlett and Rhett. “she is like mother,” Scarlett thinks as Melanie lies dying, a convenient time for unwelcome relations: “everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts”. but it is this quiet ,pliable and delicate Melanie who is the tower of strength of Scarlett. with Melanie, there is the strength upon which Scarlett has relied unknowing for so many years. Melanie is the only woman friend Scarlett ever has, Melanie is the only one who never criticizes Scarlett’s being different for she knows that only people like Scarlett can survive. what a pity that she can not follow Scarlett! the reason is that Melanie belongs to the old order. she is the ideal of southern feminine graciousness, the great lady personified as is Ellen, Scarlett’s mother, but there is a toughness in her that is surprising. It is she who, though may starve, cannot compromise her principles. 2.3. Scarlett and Ashley Ashley, the last character to be discussed, has been 9 Scarlett’s lover she has dreamed for many years.but in fact Ashley doesn’t love her. 3. Scarlett’s rebellious activities in the civil war and the post-war period 3.1. Scarlett’s wisdom and diligence in the reconstruction Not long later Ashley goes back to team, he was captured.meanwhile, Melanie finds herself pregnant. as the battlefield situation gets worse, the residents of Atlanta begin to fled away. same as the others, Scarlett wants to go back to Tara, too. but Melanie’s dangerous health condition retains her at Atlanta to accompany, protect and help her. then during the siege, Scarlett is fidgety to live in Atlanta with the homesick biting her heart. in those days, she can leave Melanie with other madams and she herself goes back home with her family. but because of various reasons, the chief one of which is her promise to Ashley that she will take care of Melanie for him, she stays with Melanie, whose time is approaching during the shelling. is it a kind of foolish chivalry? certainly not! it is the kindhearted aspect of her nature. that is to say, Scarlett has not only bravery and stubbornness, but also sense 10 of responsibility in her characters. this time, she is still different. Soon comes the first “the end of the world” in Scarlett’ s life. that’s a sultry day, from the very morning has she known that Melanie’s pains are getting harder and she surely will have a hard time. at this emergent moment, the doctor can not come because he has to deal with hundreds of wounded soldiers and at that very nasty day, the yankees will take the city in no time. nevertheless, the worst thing is, she has to face the reality, she will deliver the baby by herself! Till the night falls, Scarlett succeeds to have Melanie’ s baby bathed the first time. Melanie succeeds to fall asleep too, again with the help of Rhett and his hard–earned stolen horse, Scarlett is led through the burning city and the dangerous countryside until she can go on safely alone—at least in Rhett’s view she can. the rest distance is lightless, bumpy and endless to her, and there might be North and South armies on her way home. due to her bravery and stubbornness once again, after a day and night’s painful journey, Scarlett and others, safely arrives at Tara, her home. Out of Scarlett’s expectation, the more terrible disaster occurs—her mother has died～her father has turned to a terribly 11 old man with schizophrenia. now he is like a child, no longer a strong man, the backbone of Tara. slaves have run away, with only three darkies still remaining. there remains not enough food, and all their cotton has been burnt to ashes. meanwhile, their lot of confederate cash becomes worthless. the most important is that she, Scarlettt, will continue to carry her burdens. The long road from Atlanta to Tara has ended, in a black wall, the road that was to end in Ellen’s arms. never again can Scarlett lie down, as a child, secure beneath her father’ s roof with the protection of her mother’s love wrapped about her like an eiderdown quilt. there was no security or heaven to which she could turn now～there is no one on whose shoulders she can rest her burdens. now Scarlett is seeing things with new eyes, for somewhere along the long road to Tara, she has left her girlhood behind her. she is a woman now and youth is gone. her burdens are her own and they are for shoulders strong enough to bear them. she can’t desert Tara, she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her. her roots went deep into the blood–colored soil and sucked up life, as did the cotton. The next morning Scarlett forces her to endure body’s 12 stiffness and sore, goes out to search for some food. in the Negroes’ garden patches of Wilkes’ plantation, she is licked down by hunger and tiredness. when she arises at last and sees again the black ruins of the plantation.her head is raised high and something that is youth and beauty and potential tenderness has gone out of her face forever. the lazy luxury of the old days is gone, never to return. at that moment hunger grows at her empty stomach again and Scarlett says aloud: “As god is my witness,the yankees aren’t going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s over I’m never going to be hunger again. no, nor any of my folks. if I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hunger again”. this is her dauntlessness. What an announcement of struggle! indeed it is a day that is worthy of celebration. that symbolizes the birth of a completely new woman, a heroine in the old time. from then on, the shell of hardness, which has begun to form about her heart when she lies in the slave garden, is slowly thickening. Scarlett, who is more advanced than others, firstly realizes that her mother’s ordered world is gone and a brutal world has taken its place. she sees, or she thinks she sees that her mother has been wrong, and she changes swiftly to meet this new world 13 for which she is not prepared. this is her perceptivity. Both of Scarlett’s two sisters and the slaves all refuse or do not dare to face the reality. Melanie, who can face the situation, but only endures and suffers passively, and she is not willing to or can not struggle against the bad luck positively and energetically. that is to say, once again, Scarlett is different and complained by everyone except Melanie—why does she become so cool and so chilly? As for her courage and fieriness, Scarlett kills a thieving yankees soldier, imperturbably and determinately—right before the yankee’s shoot. actually, she only does what under the circumstances must be done if she is to survived. in modern society, that is called legitimate defense,is guiltless. anyway, Scarlett saved others, that is worthwhile. 3.2. Scarlett’s rebellious activities in the post-war period With Scarlett’s wisdom and diligence, the Tara can surely offer a better and better life if there weren’t the taxation affair .then,in order to raise money ,Scarlett has go to Atlanta to drop on Rhett, being a merely woman in a society that is bankrupt and still dominated by men who are either stupid or 14 idealistic, and in any case ineffectual, Scarlett must use the only means available to her for saving the family plantation : sex. however,this decision is not easy for her,Scarlett fights a quick battle with the three most binding ties of her soul—the memory of Ellen,the teaching of her religion and her love for Ashley. She knew that what she had in her mind must be hideous to her mother even in that warm far off heaven where she surely was.she knew that fornication was a mortal sin.and she knew that loving Ashley as she did,her plan was doubly prostitution.unfortunately,although she has planned to sacrifice herself to Rhett,she failed, for Rhett is in prison. but in any case she will not give up Tara, and her folks. she will seduce her sister’s fiancé in order to get his money —if her sister is a little less selfish than her, Scarlett will need not to marry such an old man. after all, she victimizes herself. To get and save enough money, Scarlett buys a sawmill herself. she shuttled back and forth in Atlanta with the whole town talking about her. and she makes a success. simultaneously, she is excluded out of social contacts. all she has done is to be different from other women and she has made a little success of it. that is the one unforgivable sin in any society.be 15 different and be damned. as Rhett says to her, “Scarlett, the mere fact that you’ve made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn’t succeeded. remember, a well-bred female’s place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy brutal world”. by now, we know, perhaps only partly, the reason why she is different and cursed. Then comes the civil war,after her impulse (marry Charles Hamilton to “retaliate” Ashley Wilkes’ marriage to Melanie Hamilton) Scarlett is soon widowed, she can not fell contented in her widow life, she still wants to dance, laugh and be courted as Scarlett O′Hara, not Scarlett Hamilton. and so, with the help of Rhett Butler, Scarlett begins to search for another paradise in her life. at that very time, she forgets herself and her rearing neglects the look on the chaperons’ faces, cares not what she will be criticized, she just wants to dance, to release her partly from mourning. 3.3. Scarlett’s pursuit of freedom and happiness On whole year after Charles’s death ,Scarlett is partly liberated. despite wearing mouring,she is back again where she has been before she marries Charles, careless of the disapproval of others,she behaved as she had behaved before her 16 marriage—went to parties , danced, went riding with soldiers, flirted. life is still attractive, like she is.she enioys her normal-like life again. she, Scarlett, energetic and animated,how can she be defined forever? Much less,the man she married has never gained her love at all! so that Scarlett,who is willing to and destined to pursued a passional life. Obviously, she is different and still is scolded for being different from the social code. However, in modern society, no one has the right of obstructing a widowed lady from pursuing happiness, especially remarriage. 4. Conclusion Both Ashley and Melanie are anachronisms as the result of the disruption of the war. the old order, the life of tradition is, of course, represented in them. the Wilkeses are bookworms, they always send off for books of poetry, take European tours and marry their cousins. their plantation, twelve Oaks, is everything romanticists would like to believe about the old south. Now we see, Scarlett and Rhett, the two strong figures and Melanie and Ashley, the two weak ones, were products of external characterization rather than psychological motivation, yet they gave the appearance of reality in manners and dialogue, 17 seeming to be shaped by inner stresses and social forces rather than by prefabricated temperaments, only those who adapt themselves to the changes can survive, even if they are different in the old time. the weak ones are destined to be eliminated. She knew what she wanted and she went after it by the shortest route, like a man, she wants not only to survive, but also to prevail and will use any means at hand to gain her ends, and she wins, still keeps an uneasily known kind heart. those are characters needed for success in 21st century. if Scarlett were living in modern society, instead of the old time, she surely could lead a happy and comfortable life, like many other white-collar women do. in short, Scarlett is a new woman in the old time. she is different and cursed. however, the society which we live in is an advanced one, so we can imitate her, of course not in all her ways. fortunately, we could “be different” as she is , moreover～not “be cursed” as she is. 18 Bibliography [1] 姚金红. 解析〈乱世佳人〉中郝思嘉的女性主体意识[J].西安文理学院学报, 2006,(9). [2] 荆兴梅.〈飘〉的女性主义解读[J] .江苏科技大学学报, 2005, (5). [3] 富华. 活在名著中的女性[M] .银川:宁夏人民出版社, 2004. [4] 玛格丽特?米切尔～贾文浩等译. 飘[M] .北京:燕山出版社～2003. [5] 克洛蒂亚. 斯佳丽研究[N].纽约: 纽约客, 1992. 19