文档介绍：The Slavery in Gone with the Wind
——Does the Novel Tell the Truth?
(文学院英语系英语专业冒蓉蓉)
(学号: 2002013012)
【摘要】《飘》将浪漫的爱情故事和现实中的美国南北战争
交织在一起,展现出一幅幅惊心动魄,纵横交错的南北战争和战后重建的历史画卷。但这部
小说对奴隶制的描写却引起了巨大争议。本文要探讨的就是到底米歇尔是否描绘出了当时真
实的奴隶制历史。
【 Abstract 】A romantic story and a description of the realistic American Civil War, Gone
with the Wind presents us a historical panorama of the crisscross and soul-stirring Civil War and
postwar reconstruction. However, the novel also stirs a lot controversy for its admiration for the
slavery. Whether or not Margaret Mitchell tells the truth of the piece of history is what the thesis
wants to discuss.
【 Key words 】Gone with the Wind Slavery American Civil War
教师点评:《飘》一直是一本很受欢迎的小说,但因为其对奴隶制的描写一直广受争议,没
有被主要的文学史著作所接受,也没有得到主流文化的认可。该同学的论文对这一现象进行
了讨论并与 Harriet Stwoe 的小说《汤姆叔叔的小屋》进行了比较,由此的出了自己的结论,
认为小说在一定程度上确实美化了奴隶制,但同时也反应了美国南方奴隶制真实的一面。本
文作者写作态度非常端正,在对所能找到的并不太多的资料阅读很认真,论述较客观,结构
较合理,条例清晰,表现出一定的独立思考能力和良好的语言运用能力,是一篇较为优秀的
毕业论文。(点评教师: 贾陆依)
指导教师:贾陆依
1. Literary Research:
Surprisingly, though Gone with the Wind has won a great reputation, one can hardly find it
recorded in most of the anthologies of English literature. Neither The Heath Anthology of
American Literature nor The Norton Anthology of American Literature include it, and
according to Yang Jingyuan, (1981) 《牛津美国文学手册》does not consider the novel as an
importa