Abstract: 

Scarlett, the heroine of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the wind, is originally an indulged and headstrong 16-year-old southern belle. After experiencing a series of hardships, Scarlett gradually proves that she is a representative of new women and sets a good  example for females of her time. Through the analysis of the heroine’s painful process from the perspectives of her rebellious spirit, her strong will and her feminist awareness, this paper aims to analyze the modernism in Scarlett’s personalities. The first part of the body of the paper mainly discusses Scarlett’s rebellious spirit, both against old conventions and social restrictions on women. The second part describes her strong will in seeking love and saving Tara. The third part focuses on Scarlett’s feminist awareness, including her pursuit of equality with men, attitudes towards marriages as well as her positive attitudes towards “tomorrow”.

Keywords: Scarlett; modernism; personalities; equality

摘要：

玛格丽特.米切尔的代表作《飘》中的女主人公斯嘉丽原本是个任性受宠的16岁南方少女。在经历一些生活的磨难之后，她逐渐成为了新女性的代表，为她那个年代的女性树立了榜样。本文拟通过分析斯嘉丽的反叛意识，坚强的意志以及女性意识的觉醒的这几个方面，来剖析其性格的现代性。论文主体的第一部分主要论述了斯嘉丽对约束女性的旧习俗的反抗；第二部分论述斯嘉丽在其遭遇挫折过程中对爱情的执著追求以及勇敢保卫家园塔拉的坚强意志；第三部分着重于描述她的女性意识，包括对与男性平等地位的追求，对婚姻的追求以及对“明天”的积极乐观的态度。

关键词: 斯嘉丽； 现代性； 性格； 平等

1. Introduction
Margaret Mitchell’s one and only novel Gone with the wind was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in the next year. The book has remained popular since 1936, not only in the United States, but all over the world. Besides, more than 30 million copies have been sold in total.
The author Margaret Mitchell was born in an upper class family in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father Eugene Muse Mitchell was an outstanding lawyer and her mother Mary Isabelle Stephens a suffragist. In her hometown, people were always talking about the Civil War, and the heroes’ events impressed her deeply. So the stories eventually provided materials for her novel. Margaret Mitchell received a feminist education while she was a little girl. She adopted her mother’s feminist leanings though it came into collision with her father’s conservative ideas. Therefore, it is easy to find that her novel is full of the idea of women’s equality and independence with men.