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What a Woman!— The Rebellious Spirit of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind

Ziming Sun

Abstract


The novel Gone with the Wind is a great work by Margaret Mitchell. For a long time, it has been one of the bestsellers on novel shelves. This novel records the social situation during the American Civil War and the heroines’ life experiences. It successfully portrays the classical image of females in literary history. Scarlett is a woman who has a rebellious spirit. This paper analyzes Scarlett’s power against traditional gender prejudices, moral concepts, setbacks, and lifestyles.


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Gone with the Wind; Scarlett; Rebellious Spirit; Foreign Literature

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i28.10814

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