Title: Why Scarlett was gone with the wind?
Outline:
1. The Virtues and Defects in Scarlett’s Character
Virtues
Rebellion against Social Restrictions
Scarlett O’Hara behaves quite differently from the women in the southern American society in that period. Female, at that time, are taught to be gentle and elegant. They not only should be forced to obey all the conversations that a gentlewoman should know, but also wait for men’s appreciation and love passively. Even in love, they could not tell anybody their own ideas.
While Scarlett hates the so-called traditional regulation. Instead, she wants to be herself: She shows her indifference for the affected manners: “I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting like I don’t eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I’m tired of saying someday I’m going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don’t like it, I don’t care.” She will not confine herself nor live below men, she dresses up beautifully and wants to handle men around her and loves to be the focus of men.
At that time, marriage is planed by parents and daughters have no choices but to accept parents’ arrangement. When Scarlett is young, her father wants her to marry one of the
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