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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The novel is one of the most popular of all time, and an American film adaptation of the same name released in 1939 became the highest-grossing film i

2、n the history of Hollywood and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards. Mitchells work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett OHara and her travails with friends, family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum South, the American Civil War, and the Reconstructio

3、n period. It also tells the story of the love that blossoms between Scarlett OHara and Rhett Butler.The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non sum quals eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson: I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind. Alternatively, the l

4、ine also appears in the novel. When Scarlett escapes Atlantas bombing by the forces of the north, she flees back to her familys plantation, Tara. At one point, she wonders Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia? Critics and historians regard the

5、book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy and a romanticized view of the culture of the antebellum South. This is apparent from the books opening pages, which describe how Scarletts beaux, the Tarleton twins, have been expelled from university and are accompanied

6、 home by their elder brothers out of a sense of honor: a metaphor for the Souths viewpoint on the statehood of Kansas.Nevertheless, the book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of it absent from the 1939 film), and shows a considerable amount

7、of historical research. Mitchells sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3, 1937.An episode in the book suggests the early Ku Klux Klan, though without giving the name: in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Scarlett is assualted by recently-emancipate

8、d Blacks, whereupon her male friends make a retaliatory night-time raid on the Blacks encampment. This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified, while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as opressive Northern occupiers. Although the Kl

9、an is not mentioned in that scene, Scarlett later learns that Ashley Wilkes and others who were involved in the raid are members of the Klan. Many such local anti-Black vigilante groups did eventually join the Klan in the late 1860s, as Mitchell must have been aware from her historical reasearch.Ale

10、xandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett, in 1991, as the authorized sequel to Mitchells novel. In 2000, the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randalls The Wind Done Gone, a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves. A federal appeals court denied the p

11、laintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (2001), on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment. The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be publishedHistorical Sources for the Characters While Margaret Mitchell use

12、d to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people, modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchells own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of. Rhett Butler is thought to be based on Mitchells first husband, Red Upshaw, who sh

13、e married in 1922, but divorced after it was revealed that he was a bootlegger. Another at least prtial character source for Scarlett OHara might have been Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt biographer, David McCullough, discovered that Mitchell conduc

14、ted an interview with one of Marthas closest friends and bridesmaid, Evelyn King Williams, at age 87, while a reporter for The Atlanta Journal. In that interview, Marthas physical appearance, beauty, grace and intelligence were described in great detail. The similarities between Martha, who was also called Mittie, and Sc专心-专注-专业