《飘》英文版简介.pptx.ppt

Gone with the Wind ——Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchells first and only published, best-selling and Reconstruction Period novel that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s. The novel had a great success throughout the United States and around the world. It has been translated into about 27 languages in 37 countries. At present, Gone with the Wind is still one of the best-selling novels in the world. Gone With The Wind Author Main characters Plot Author Margaret Mitchell:born in Atlanta, Georgia. She spent her childhood in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her maternal relatives, who had lived through the Civil War. After graduating from Washington Seminary, she attended Smith College, but just one year later,in 1918,She returned to Atlanta to take over the household after her mothers death earlier that year from the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption(进取心), people who fought their way through hard times successfully and came out survivors. She said that if her novel, Gone with the Wind, had a theme it was survival, I wrote about the people who had gumption and the people who didnt. With Gone with the Wind Margaret brought a promising message to all people - Tomorrow is another day. Scarlett OHara Rhett Butler Scarlett is a pretty, unique Southern belle who grows up on the Georgia plantation of Tara in the years before the Civil War. Selfish, shrewd, and vain, Scarlett inherits the strong will of her father, but also desires to please her well-bred, genteel mother. When hardships plague Scarlett, she shoulders the troubles of her family and friends. Scarlett’s desire for the Southern gentleman Ashley and the opportunistic New Southerner Rhett Butler makes use of the South’s struggle to cling to tradition and still survive in the new era. Rhett Butler Scarlett’s third husband, and a dashing, dangerous adventurer and scoundrel. Expelled from West Point and disowned by hi