Progressive and Conservative Ideology of Women in Gone with the Wind
Abstract
Gone with the Wind is a feminist novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, in which the author Margaret Mitchell depicts the damage caused by the war and how Scarlett O'Hara, a progressive woman in this particular period, uses her strength to achieve a happy life under the confines of the world. Even so, out of the historical background of the 1870s, Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of this paper, still has some typical characteristics of women in that era, and it is because of these typical characteristics that she is able to realize her various demands and achieve success step by step by exerting her upper-class femininity. In this paper, the progressiveness and limitations of the female characters in Gone with the Wind are listed, and compared from different perspectives. Through the comparison of these progressive limitations, it can be seen the rapid development of feminism in modern times and the necessity of developing feminism in this way.
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