2。 Literature Review

After Gone with the Wind came out, scholars at home and aboard have made a variety of studies on Scarlett。 For instance, Liu Baocai examines female subject consciousness, the incompleteness of female consciousness and ecological feminism perspective in Feminism Study General Review in Gone with the Wind (Liu 115)。 In the research of the Gone with the Wind, there are many theses in China, but the academic circles mainly focus on the feminism research。 For example, Chang Hong’s The Awakening of Feminist Rationalism－Brief Analysis of the process of Scarlett's personality growth and Chang Aiming’s A Feminist Interpretation of Scarlett are from the female subject consciousness point of view。 Yang Qiuhong’s The Dancer Floating in Troubled Times: Study on the Charm of Scarlett and Feminist Consciousness and Chen Mei’s A Feminist Analysis of the Tragic Characteristics of the Heroine's Rebellion in Gone with the Wind are from the perspective of the incompleteness of female consciousness。 Liu Fei’s The Ecological Feminist Interpretation in Gone with the Wind and Cao Peihong’s Studies on the Ecological Feminism of the Gone with the Wind are from the ecological feminism perspective。

In addition, Gone with the Wind has the practical significance。 Scarlett’s attitudes toward life are active and positive。 When she burdened the responsibility of rebuilding the Tara manor, she did not give up and faced it bravely。 These can be available both by male and female。 For instance, Shi Jingbi’s The Survival of the Fittest-A Brief Analysis of the Theme of Gone with the Wind and An Dong’s Social Darwinism Analysis of Gone with the Wind are from the perspective of the Social Darwinism。

 Feminist narratology is the combination of feminist literary review and structuralism narrative, which is the most important and the most influential faction of the post classical narratology。 It started from the sixties of the 20th century。 In 1986, Lanser in her thesis Walking Toward Feminist Narratology first proposed the the concept of feminist narrative。 In 1989, Warhol published the article The Involvement of Gender Differences, she put forward the gender meanings in narrative discourse。 In the 21st century, domestically some scholars of feminist narratology put forward some new views on research。 In 2003, Peking University Professor Shen Dan’s Narrative Form and Gender Politics-Assessment of Feminist Narrative Study In this article, she discusses the essential characteristics of feminist narratology (Shen Discourse 1 9)。

Considering that there are few studies from the perspective of feminist narratology, and the rise of the feminist narratology is unavoidable, I decide to use this way and change another view to interpret the classic work, in order to find something new。 In this thesis, the text is pided into three parts: free indirect discourse, narrative perspective and narrative voice。 At first, I will sort out the concept of these 3 parts, and then combined with their types, and clear out the advantages and disadvantages of the narrative skills what the author chooses。  Finally, according to the narrative discourse in specific text, I will carry out the analysis to find out the author’s intention。 

3。 Free Indirect Discourse

3。1 The definition and development of free indirect discourse

Free indirect discourse is a kind of discourse mode which narrates discourses, feelings and thoughts of characters from the perspective of the third person。 What it presents is an objective form of narration, a description of the narrator。 In reader’s heart, however, it arouses character’s voice, action and mood (Hu 97)。

Free indirect discourse was popular in western narratology and cultural circle which was an important quotation form since 19th century。 It was named by Charles Bally, however, in 1912, who studied it as an independent and meaningful style (Lanser 24)。文献综述