从《飘》看美国南北战争后阶级关系的变化_英语论文

An Analysis of the Changes in Social Class Relations of America after the Civil War from Gone with the Wind 

摘要

玛格丽特米歇尔的小说《飘》是一部以美国南北内战为历史背景、以南方的社会生活为生活环境来进行描述的美国全景社会小说。本课题以《飘》作为背景，以小说主要人物各个阶段的生活变化展开介绍美国南北战争时期南北方社会风貌以及各色人物在巨大的社会变革中的命运变迁。文章仔细分析战争后美国社会成员地位的变动，为主题研究做好铺垫。着重研究内战后社会阶级关系的变化。最终得出结论，美国内战推翻了战争之前白人的社会垄断地位，废除了长久以来血腥暴力的黑人奴隶制。这次战争虽未完全让黑人处于与白人平等的状态，却也让他们开始享有作为公民该有的权利，打开了美国民主与共和的崭新局面。

关键词:《飘》  南北战争  社会阶级关系  变化

Abstract

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is a panoramic novel based on the historical background of American Civil War which uses the southern social life as the living environment. In the background of American Civil War, this topic cites the life changes of the main characters during different periods to show us a picture of South American social landscape as well as the changes of the fates of all the people during the enormous social changes. In the paper, the changes in the social member status after the civil war in the United States are carefully studied, which paves the way for the topic of this paper. The changes of social class relations of America after the Civil War are emphatically explored. Finally, it comes to the conclusion that the Civil War overthrew the social dominance of white people before war. The bloody and tyrannical slavery which tortured the black people a lot was abolished. Even though Civil War didn’t entirely make black and white people equal in social status, it let them begin to enjoy the rights as citizens like others and opened a brand new situation of the American democracy and republic.

Keywords: Gone with the Wind  the Civil War  social class relations  changes