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1、斯嘉丽和王熙凤女性形象的对比Female Image Comparison between Scarlett and Wang XifengAbstract: Scarlett in Gone with the Wind and Wang Xifeng in A Dream of Red Mansions are two striking images inscribed in readers minds. It was the Civil War that accelerated Scarletts maturity and independence; it was during the r
2、econstruction period that Scarlett became aggressive and adapted to the new bourgeois. She was called a heroine during wartime while Wang Xifeng was the witness of the clans decline, and was an indispensable character in the novel, though she was not the protagonist. She broke away from the traditio
3、nal feudal idea and displayed her administrative competence. She was called a heroine in the kingdom of women. Because of the variation in personality and wags, they had different fates, and the two womens images show different characters as well. Though both of Scarlett and Wang Xifeng were pretty,
4、 shrewish, complex and competent, both of them had strong feminist consciousness, they encountered different fates. By analyzing the similarities and differences between the two female characters this paper tries to discuss different females in different cultural backgrounds had different fates.Key
5、words: Scarlett；Wang Xifeng；Image Comparison摘要：飘中斯嘉丽的形象与红楼梦中王熙凤的形象已深入人心。斯嘉丽在南北战争中成长为独立、坚强的女性；在重建时期，表现出积极进取的精神，适应新形势，紧跟时代发展，由农场主阶级转变为新兴的资产阶级，展示了其独特的女性魅力，被称为乱世中的佳人。王熙凤是四大家族兴衰的见证人和主线，贯穿首尾，虽然不是主角，但她是红楼梦中不可或缺的人物，她突破了“女子无才便是德”的传统封建理念，在大观园中将其治家管理才能发挥得淋漓尽致，是脂粉堆里的女英雄。性格的差异和手段的不同，使她们有着不同的命运，她们的形象也闪烁出不同的光芒。斯嘉丽
6、和王熙凤尽管天生丽质，性格泼辣，能力非凡，且有很强的女权意识，但最后的命运却是大相径庭；一个是强者生存，一个是误了卿卿性命。本文通过分析斯嘉丽和王熙凤的异同之处讨论不同女性在不同的文化背景下有不同的命运。关键词：斯嘉丽； 王熙凤；女性形象ContentsI. Introduction .1A. Gone with the Wind and Margaret Mitchell.1B. A Dream of Red Mansions and Cao Xueqin.2II. Similarities between Scarlett and Wang Xifeng.2A. Complex perso
7、nality.2B. Shrewishness.5C. Rebellions spirit of feminism.7III. Differences between Scarlett and Wang Xifeng.9A. Different competence.9B. Different fates11IV. Conclusion.14Works Cited.15I. IntroductionA. Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the WindGone with the Wind was published in 1936 and become the
8、best seller. In 1937, this novel won Pulitzer. By 1949, when the author Margaret Mitchell died from a traffic accident, this novel had been translated into 18 languages, and published and released in more than 40 countries. Even nowadays, this novel is popular among readers in the world. The author
9、Margaret Mitchell was a woman writer of the American South, who was famous for this novel. She was born in her Grandmother Annies house in Atlanta on November 9, 1900. Here she was first encountered familys rich legacy of oral history-countless retelling of the Civil War. Margaret Mitchell had an id
10、yllic childhood and she read avidly. As she grew older she was gradually exposed to the harder realities of life. Later she was became a Georgian author and journalist. From 1926 to 1936, she wrote this novel. In 1937, it was said to be the fastest-selling novel in the history of American publishing
11、. It has sales record of 500,000 during its first year.Gone with the Wind depicts tribulations of Scarlett Ohara, Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton, who are four of the best known fictional characters in American literature as they attempt to adapt to the changing circumstances of the
12、ir homeland. However, only the willful heroine Scarlett and the roguish Rhett emerge as survivors in the “New South”, while the ineffectual dream Ashley is defeated in spirit and the docile “Southern woman” Melanie dies.B. Cao Xueqin and A Dream of Red MansionsA Dream of Red Mansions, one of the cel
13、ebrated Chinese classical novels, is a masterpiece of realism written in the middle of the 18th century and an encyclopedia of the declining feudal society. Cao Xueqin(1715?-1763?) was born in an aristocratic family that lasted about a hundred years, but later, the family property was confiscated an
14、d the Caos halcyon days came to an end. He wrote this novel in poverty, after his father suffered the decline of his family fortunes from its heady of power and affluence. His life experiences not only provided the material for the novel, they also raised his awareness and tempered his character. He
15、 spent ten years writing and revising the novel, but died before he could finish it. He created this novel during the last years of the feudal society which revealed all kinds of conflicts and indicated that the ruling class thought was stiff and tyrannical. So the feudal system was doomed to death. The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of the two branches of the Jia clan, the Rong Mansion and the Ning Mansio
