TheAnalysisofLoveViewinGoneiththeWind《飘》的爱情观分析.doc

毕 业 论 文 The Analysis of Love View in Gone with the Wind Acknowledgements I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Zhang Hongtao, for her constant encouragement, supervision and guidance. It would have been impossible for me to finish this thesis without her help. She pointed out some mistakes in my paper. Then I corrected them and made it become better than before. Also I would like to thank all the teachers who have great influence on my worldview and the attitude towards life, and to my beloved classmates, who helped me to collect reference materials for this thesis, and friends for their love and care in my study and life. Lastly, sincere and heartfelt thanks also for my family, for their love and support during my study in the university. I would like to extend my special gratitude to my parents who consistently support and encourage me at any time of my life. Abstract Margaret Mannerly Mitchell, an American author, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind. This novel is one of the most popular books of all time and it has always been regarded as one of the most classic love stories in American literature. It describes some love stories about the heroine Scarlett. This thesis aims to analyze the love view in Gone with the Wind. In this novel, Scarlett had three failure marriages. Her marriages were not based on love, just for satisfying her need. In retaliation for Ashley, she married Charles, in order to live, she married Frank, and in order to satisfy the vanity, she married Rhett. So, this paper will analyze Scarlett’s love view through analyzing her three marriages. There are two important factors that affect one’s love view——character and society. Scarlett had a complex character and her love views were deeply affected by her character. All these characters together with the special and complex historical background in America make her become a loser in love. So the causes of Scar