哪为英语大侠可以给我一份《飘》的英文梗概呀,

哪为英语大侠可以给我一份《飘》的英文梗概呀,

Gone with the Wind,an American novel by Margaret Mitchell,was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.The novel is one of the most popular of all time,and an American film adaptation of the same name released in 1939 became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood and received a record-breaking number of Academy Awards.
Mitchell's work relates the story of a rebellious Georgia woman named Scarlett O'Hara and her travails with friends,family and lovers in the midst of the antebellum South,the American Civil War,and the Reconstruction period.It also tells the story of the love that blossoms between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler.
The title is taken from the first line of the third stanza of the poem Non sum qual铆s eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson:"I have forgot much,Cynara!gone with the wind." Alternatively,the line also appears in the novel.When Scarlett escapes Atlanta's bombing by the forces of the north,she flees back to her family's plantation,Tara.At one point,she wonders "Was Tara still standing?Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?"
Critics and historians regard the book as having a strong ideological commitment to the cause of the Confederacy and a romanticized view of the culture of the antebellum South.This is apparent from the book's opening pages,which describe how Scarlett's beaux,the Tarleton twins,have been expelled from university and are accompanied home by their elder brothers out of a sense of honor:a metaphor for the South's viewpoint on the statehood of Kansas.
Nevertheless,the book includes a vivid description of the fall of Atlanta in 1864 and the devastation of war (some of it absent from the 1939 film),and shows a considerable amount of historical research.Mitchell's sweeping narrative of war and loss helped the book win the Pulitzer Prize on May 3,1937.
An episode in the book suggests the early Ku Klux Klan,though without giving the name:in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War,Scarlett is assualted by recently-emancipated Blacks,whereupon her male friends make a retaliatory night-time raid on the Blacks' encampment.This raid is presented sympathetically as being necessary and justified,while the law-enforcement officers trying to catch the perpetrators are depicted as opressive Northern occupiers.Although the Klan is not mentioned in that scene,Scarlett later learns that Ashley Wilkes and others who were involved in the raid are members of the Klan.Many such local anti-Black vigilante groups did eventually join the Klan in the late 1860's,as Mitchell must have been aware from her historical reasearch.
Alexandra Ripley wrote the novel Scarlett,in 1991,as the authorized sequel to Mitchell's novel.
In 2000,the copyright holders attempted to suppress publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone,a book that retold the story from the point of view of the slaves.A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction against publication in Suntrust v.Houghton Mifflin (2001),on the basis that the book was parody protected by the First Amendment.The parties subsequently settled out of court to allow the book to be published.
Structure
Part One
Chapters I to VII
From Tara to Ashley's birthday barbecue where his engagement to Melanie is announced and Fort Sumter spurs the beginnings of the American Civil War.
Part Two
Chapters VIII to XVI
From Tara to Scarlett's early years of the war in Atlanta with Aunt Pitty and Melanie.
Part Three
Chapters XVII to XXX
Scarlett's escape just before September 1864's Surrender of Atlanta back to Tara and the hardships there.
Part Four
Chapters XXXI to XLVII
Post-bellum,carpetbagger taxes force Scarlett to return to Atlanta where she ends up married to Frank.
Part Five
Chapters XLVIII to LXIII
Her marriage to Rhett Butler and realization that she never could love Ashley.
Historical Sources for the Characters
While Margaret Mitchell used to say that her Gone with the Wind characters were not based on real people,modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in Mitchell's own life as well as to individuals she knew or she heard of.Rhett Butler is thought to be based on Mitchell's first husband,Red Upshaw,who she married in 1922,but divorced after it was revealed that he was a bootlegger.
Another at least p脿rtial character source for Scarlett O'Hara might have been Martha Bulloch Roosevelt,the mother of US president Theodore Roosevelt.Roosevelt biographer,David McCullough,discovered that Mitchell conducted an interview with one of Martha's closest friends and bridesmaid,Evelyn King Williams,at age 87,while a reporter for The Atlanta Journal.In that interview,Martha's physical appearance,beauty,grace and intelligence were described in great detail.The similarities between Martha,who was also called Mittie,and Scarlett are striking.

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell - Reviewed by Anna
11/4/05 at Jo’s
Everybody hadn’t read the whole of Gone With The Wind – or GWTW – but everyone had an opinion on it. There were bas...

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Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell - Reviewed by Anna
11/4/05 at Jo’s
Everybody hadn’t read the whole of Gone With The Wind – or GWTW – but everyone had an opinion on it. There were basically two camps. There were the die-hard Scarlett fans, led by Sharon and Jo, who could hear no wrong said about their heroine; and those who thought she was selfish, hard and completely insensitive to the pain and misery her actions caused to others. At least that was how the evening began. We weren’t seated on opposite sides of the rooms, but the divide was as palpable as if we’d drawn a net across the room. The Scarletts ready to defend her come what may, be it Yankees, starvation, adultery or fellow book group members; the others warily unwilling to have her glamour, as a raison d’etre, forced upon them.
But as we talked it became obvious that our differences were not so great. The Scarletts were seduced by her glamour but not blind to her faults. They loved Scarlett, so when she did unspeakable things they looked beyond them for reasons. They pointed to her upbringing, which was totally geared to being a refined wife and mother, leaving her completely unprepared for the chaos of war into which she was thrown. Scarlett was a fighter, but a fighter with no training. She had to find what weapons she could, and sometimes her weapons weren’t very pleasant. But she was not content to sit back on principles and traditions and let life as she’s known it slip away while she watched on the sidelines. That was Ashley’s way, and Melanie’s.
More than once Margaret Mitchell refers to Darwinism. The book is set in a time when evolution would have been a controversial topic, talked about in the drawing rooms and clubs frequented by Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler. She even has Scarlett refer to “the survival of the fitting”! But although she makes a joke of it, this is really the key to Scarlett. She is the strong who will survive, unlike Melanie and Ashley who will be winnowed out, whose day has been and gone. And for that reason alone, we must love Scarlett – amidst the chaos and degradation of the Civil War she is the future. Which means that she is our present.
It is no accident that their nearest neighbour, Mrs Tarleton, is a horse breeder and breeding a topic of conversation (be it frowned upon) in the O’Hara household. The Wilkes and Hamilton families are known for inbreeding. Ashley and Melanie the result of this, they are cousins and neither are strong. This doesn’t bode well for Beau’s future health. Scarlett, on the other hand, is the result of interbreeding between races, between continents, between new and old, brashness and gentility, vigour and apathy. She has her parents on her shoulders like the devil and the angel, Ellen sighing, urging kindness, sympathy, fortitude and womanly wiles; Gerald headstrong and vulgar, taking the straightest line he can to what he wants, unafraid of a little cheating or killing on the way, but capable of enormous love. When Ellen dies her influence on Scarlett loses its intensity. She is more like her father than her mother after all.
So when she leases convicts to work her mill and works them until they drop, we grit our teeth and say she must do what she needs to, or the future, our capitalist society, will have nothing to build upon. We forgive her for being such a terrible mother as she was so young. Nineteen, widowed with a child, parentless, in charge of two sick sisters and a cotton plantation in the midst of a war zone. We forgive her her intellectual vacuity, as that’s what she was brought up to value in her sex, and the future needs vitality not reflectiveness. If she had spent her childhood reading rather than running wild climbing trees and riding horses, how would she have coped with the physical demands of the ride home to Tara and the exhaustion of working in the fields.
Not only physical exhaustion, but emotional too. And this was the point which came out of our discussion which we all agreed on. Scarlett, in the course of the book, becomes emotionally damaged. She tells Rhett that she threw her goodness out of the sinking boat because she didn’t need it, and that she would retrieve it once danger was passed. Rhett replies that it is difficult to retrieve goods thrown overboard, that even if we do they are damaged beyond repair. And this is what has happened to Scarlett. She didn’t start out irredeemably selfish and bad. She was the product of her upbringing and headstrong nature. At sixteen she was barely formed, ready to be moulded by whatever life brought. And life brought war, death of her loved ones, starvation and the complete disintegration of the world she knew. That she came through this holding her head up and thinking about tomorrow is a reason to love Scarlett O’Hara.

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Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O’Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer R...

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Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O’Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes. Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. Ashley, who is also in love with Scarlett, marries his genteel cousin Melanie because he believes that their quiet similarities will create a better marriage than Scarlett’s passion. Meanwhile, sparks fly between Rhett and Scarlett at their first encounter and continue throughout Scarlett’s first two marriages. Scarlett and Rhett finally wed, but Scarlett continues to pine for her beloved Ashley. Set against the Civil War and Southern Reconstruction, this tragic love quadrangle offers the burning of Atlanta and fields of wounded Confederates as part of its lush scenery. Meticulous backdrops, glorious sunsets, numerous silhouettes, and the ultrasaturated Technicolor film create a hyperreal vision. The romantic score is every bit as lush and dramatic as the photography, borrowing folk melodies from the Old South to make the tragic war concrete. Heavy nostalgic tones pervade the often witty dialogue and larger-than-life charms and faults of the leads. GONE WITH THE WIND stands among the greatest epic dramas ever filmed.

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