International Journal of New Developments in Engineering and Society, 2017, 1(4); doi: 10.25236/IJNDES.17424.
Shutao Zhou
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, Daqing 163319, China
The famous novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell takes the Civil War as the background. With the three marriage experiences of Scarlett as the main line, her strong feeling of land complex runs through the whole book. The red land at Tara witnessed Scarlett’s gradual growth and maturity, revealing the eternal blood ties between land and Scarlett. This paper, by analyzing Scarlett’s life course, explores the development of the land complex which is a process from unconsciousness to fight for the land. Scarlett’s land complex gave her a vivid image.
Scarlett; Tara; Land Complex
Shutao Zhou. Interpretation of Scarlett’s Land Complex in Gone with the Wind from the Perspective of Humanity. International Journal of New Developments in Engineering and Society (2017) Vol.1, Num.4: 102-105
[1]Ciraulo, Darlene. The Old and New South: Shakespeare in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind [M]. Central Missouri State University. 2005.
[2]Clukey, Amy. Plantation Modernity: Gone with the Wind and Irish-Southern Culture. [J]. American Literature. 2013(3): 505-530.
[3]Higgins, Geraldine. Tara, the O’Haras, and the Irish Gone with the Wind [J]. Southern Cultures 2011(1): 30-49.
[4]Li Meihua. Gone with the Wind [M]. Nanjing: Yilin Press. 2010.
[5]McGraw, Eliza Russi Lowen. A ‘Southern Girl with her Irish Up’: Scarlett O’hara and Ethnic Identity. [J]. South Atlantic Review 2000(1): 123-31.
[6]Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. [M]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2007.
[7]Sheley, Erin. Gone with the Wind and the Trauma of Lost Sovereignty [J]. The Southern Literary Journal 2013(2): 1-18.
[8]Tan, Xiaolan. Study of Gone with the Wind from A Historical Aspect [J]. Journal of Northwest University for Nationalities (Philosophy and Social Science) 2004(2): 133-135.
[9]Wang, Min. Margaret Mitchell’s Thinking of Life and Her Feminine Consciousness in Gone with the Wind [J]. Masterpieces Review 2011(14): 142-143.
[10] Zhang, Jiaping. A Disputable Best-Seller: Some Comments on the Study of the American Novel Gone with the Wind. [J]. Journal of Ningbo University 1995(1):72-76.