3。1。2 Bonnie's Personalities 5

3。1。3 Summary of Bonnie's Features 6

3。2 Study on the Parents and the Influence on Bonnie 6

3。2。1 The Parents' Nature and the Influence on Bonnie 6

3。2。2 The Parents' Contradiction and Love and the Influence on Bonnie 7

3。3 Bonnie's Parents' Attitudes towards Her 8

3。4   Bonnie's Birth and Death and the Meaning 10

3。5   Summary 11

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Acknowledgements 13

References 14

1 Introduction

1。1 Significance of the Study

The novel Gone with the Wind has been researched and analyzed in several perspectives, such as love and marriage, the civil war, feminism and character analysis。 Among these research mentioned, character analysis is a great branch, in which almost every main character in the novel has been analyzed in detail。 However, the character Bonnie has seldom been researched in detail, while the character is actually of high value to research。 Therefore, the character will be the research subject and be analyzed in several aspects in this thesis。

1。2 Introduction to the Writer

Margaret Mitchell, an American writer, who succeeds in the literary arena by only one work——Gone with the Wind。 She was born in Atlanta in 1900 and died in a car accident in 1949。 She has not experienced the Civil War, but because Atlanta had been captured by the North, the history of that period was discussed ardently among Atlanta citizens, Margaret has heard plenty of stories about the Civil War, which makes her generate an idea to write a novel under the background of the Civil War, and Atlanta was set to be the background of the novel。 She finished the novel in1929, but she revised it again and again, making it one of the most famous books in the world。论文网

1。3 Introduction to the Novel

Gone with the Wind is a novel under the background of the Civil War, but Margaret has not put much emphasis on the battle field。 As a novel describing the Civil War in the perspective of a southern woman, Margaret stressed the experiences and feelings for the women who suffer the pain of the war at home——from respecting and supporting for the war at first to getting through the pain of losing their family members, to surrendering to the fate and to rebuilding their homes。 The South was defeated; someone lost everything, became fragile and could not be strong enough to face the fragments of life。 On the contrary, others faced the cruel reality and stood and struggle again, thus became stronger, in which Scarlett plays a prominent role。 

Scarlett was born in Tara, a rich plantation, who attracts most boys in the county。 She loves her neighbor Ashley, while Ashley marries his cousin Melanie, which makes Scarlett jealous and marries Melanie’s brother Charles, her first husband。 Then the Civil War breaks out, and the whole Southern society gets into the war。 Under the pressure of the war and the tough life, Scarlett becomes a mature and strong woman。 During the war, Scarlett’s first husband Charles died and she encountered Rhett Butler again in Atlanta。 Later on, to pay the tax of Tara, she married Frank, her second husband, who had been her sister’s fiancé。 Unluckily, Frank also died for revenge for Scarlett。 Then Rhett, the third and the last husband of Scarlett mentioned in the novel, finally proposed to Scarlett and they get married and led a happy marriage life。 Their daughter Bonnie was born and their life began to change。 Rhett loved Bonnie as his life and Bonnie died from a pony’s back, which makes Rhett lose all strength and confidence of living with Scarlett together and he left Scarlett at last just when Scarlett realized that how much she has loved him。