英語本科畢業(yè)論文-《飄》中瑞德·巴特勒的人物性格特點(diǎn)分析

1、<p><b>　　河北師范大學(xué)</b></p><p>　　高等教育自學(xué)考試本科畢業(yè)論文</p><p>　　題目：《飄》中瑞德·巴特勒的人物性格特點(diǎn)分析 On the Characterization of Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind</p><

2、p>　　摘要:《飄》是世界文學(xué)經(jīng)典名著之一，是由美國文學(xué)作家瑪格麗特·米切爾所著。瑞德·巴特勒是小說中的男主人公。他英俊瀟灑，花錢任意，衣著時(shí)髦。他很高興以最糟糕的形式出現(xiàn)在公眾面前。一個(gè)取樂與輕蔑的微笑，一個(gè)無可辯駁的評(píng)論，一個(gè)優(yōu)雅的鞠躬，無不顯露出他的玩世不恭與睿智。他說他絕不為拋棄他的南方制度而戰(zhàn)，但他在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的最后時(shí)刻加入軍隊(duì)。他出身于貴族，但他是貴族的叛逆者。他被叫做無賴，賣國賊，但他為南方和人民做過許

3、多好事。在生意上，他事業(yè)有成。在愛情上，他一敗涂地。他懷著一個(gè)男人對(duì)一個(gè)女人的愛所能達(dá)到的最高程度在愛思佳麗特，但因?yàn)榱私馑桓抑毖韵喔?導(dǎo)致一場(chǎng)愛情悲劇。</p><p>　　關(guān)鍵詞： 英俊 ; 玩世不恭 ; 睿智 ; 精明</p><p>　　Abstract: Gone with the wind, which was written by Margaret Mitchell, i

4、s one of the most popular masterpieces in the world. Rhett Butler is the leading man-role in this novel. He is handsome, and he spent money freely. He wears clothes which are always the height of style and tailoring. He

5、is happy to present himself in the worst possible light with an amused, contempt smile, an unanswerable remarks and a graceful bow. These show his cynicism and sagaciousness. He says he would never uphold the </p>

6、<p>　　Key words: handsome; cynical; sagacious; shrewd</p><p><b>　　Content</b></p><p>　　Abstract………………………………………………………………………..3</p><p>　　Abstract in Chinese…………

7、………………………………………………….4</p><p>　　I. Introduction…………………………………………………………………..5</p><p>　　1. Brief introduction of the Author…………………………………………..6</p><p>　　2. Brief introduction of the nove

8、l’s content………………………………….7</p><p>　　3. The social background of Gone with the wind</p><p>　　a. The Civil War in the U.S.A……………………………………………...8</p><p>　　b. The Reconstruction after t

9、he Civil War………………………………..10</p><p>　　II. Analysis of the character of Rhett Butler in seven aspects</p><p>　　1. He is handsome and charming......................................................

10、............11</p><p>　　2. He is a renegade………………………………………………………...14. </p><p>　　3. He is cynical and sagacious......................................................................16</p>

11、<p>　　4. He has a clear understanding of the society and war, and has the courage to say the truth..........................................................................................18</p><p>　　5

12、. He is shrewd, farsighted...........................................................................20</p><p>　　6. He is kind, helpful and he loves the South in his own way.....................22.</p>

13、<p>　　7. Rhett Butler loves Scarlett O’Hara as much as a man can love a woman…………………………………………………………………23</p><p>　　Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..28</p><p>　　Notes………………………………………………

14、…………………...............29</p><p>　　Bibliography…………………………………………………………………..30</p><p>　　Introduction</p><p>　　1. Brief introduction of the Author</p><p>　　Margaret Mitchel

15、l (November 8, 1900-August 16, 1949) was a famous American writer, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind。Gone with the wind was her only major publication. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

16、She once received a doctor degree of literature. She was struck by an automobile on her way to the cinema with her husband. And after 5 days, she died. </p><p>　　It was her life experience and unfortunate lo

17、ve that made her to write a beautiful and sad love story in the Civil War. </p><p>　　When she was a little girl, her grandma often told her about the history of their family and some war stories. Imaging her

18、self lived in the past; she made up many small stories in which she was a heroine in a war. All of these became materials when she wrote Gone with the Wind many years later.</p><p>　　Her mother’s death made

19、her father lose the courage and motivation of life, as Starlet’s father got mad after his wife died. </p><p>　　At 18 years old, she met a young handsome officer, Clift Henry, who was the Ashley in her heart.

20、 Pretty soon, they fell into love. But he lost his life in the First World War, which made her very sad. </p><p>　　Later, she got married with a bad-tempered and cold bully. Not surprisingly, this marriage c

21、ame to an end shortly. In 1944, she got married again. Her husband Marsh was a reporter, who had loved and supported Mitchell for many years. Without Marsh’s encouragement, Mitchell couldn’t finish Gone with the Wind. Sh

22、e spent nearly 10 years on writing the novel. It took her half of a year to check the time and places of historical events in her novel. </p><p>　　But because of the publication of Gone with the Wind, her li

23、fe became a tragedy. For half of a century, the 1000-page novel has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold more than 20,000,000 copies. Gone with the Wind is enough to establish her unshakable position in t

24、he history of world literature.</p><p>　　2. Brief introduction of the novel’s content</p><p>　　It is a story about the Civil War and Reconstruction as seen from the Southern point of view. The n

25、ovel opens in 1861, and the protagonist is Scarlett O’Hara. Scarlett O’Hara is a young girl who loves Ashley Wilkes. Ashley marries Melanie Hamilton and Scarlett marries Melanie’s brother Charles, but she is soon widowed

26、. Then she marries Frank Kennedy, her sister’s fiancé, to save Tara, the family plantation, her home. Frank is also killed, and Scarlett finally marries Rhett Butler, who loves her </p><p>　　During the

27、story, she experiences Secession, the Civil War, Reconstruction, as well as three marriages and motherhood.</p><p>　　3. The social background of Gone with the wind</p><p>　　a. The Civil War in t

28、he U.S.A.</p><p>　　In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against the expansion of slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. In respon

29、se to the Republican victory in that election, seven states declared their secession from the Union before Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and Lincoln

30、9;s incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. Severa</p><p>　　Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at

31、 Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property. This led to declarations of secession by four more slave states. Both sides raised armies a

32、s the Union assumed control of the Border States early in the war and established a naval blockade. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made ending slavery in t</p><p>　　Confederate co

33、mmander Robert E. Lee won battles in the east, but in 1863 his northward advance was turned back with heavy casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after

34、their capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thereby splitting the Confederacy in two. The Union was able to capitalize on its long-term advantages in men and materiel by 1864 when Ulysses S. Grant fought battles of attritio

35、n against Lee, while Union general William Tec</p><p>　　The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed exte

36、nsively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths

37、of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years of age died;</p><p>　　b. The Reconstruction after the Civil War</p><p>　　Reco

38、nstruction, one of the most turbulent and controversial eras in American history, began during the Civil War and ended in 1877. It witnessed America's first experiment in interracial democracy. The role of the feder

39、al government in protecting citizens' rights, and the possibility of economic and racial justice are still unresolved. </p><p>　　Central to Reconstruction was the effort of former slaves to breathe full

40、meaning into their newly acquired freedom, and to claim their rights as citizens. After rejecting the Reconstruction plan of President Andrew Johnson, the Republican Congress enacted laws and Constitutional amendments th

41、at empowered the federal government to enforce the principle of equal rights, and gave black Southerners the right to vote and hold office. The new Southern governments confronted violent opposition from th</p>&l

42、t;p>　　For much of this century, Reconstruction was widely viewed as an era of corruption and misgovernment, supposedly caused by allowing blacks to take part in politics. This interpretation helped to justify the Sout

43、h's system of racial segregation and deny the vote to blacks. Today, because of extensive new research and profound changes in American race relations, historians view Reconstruction far more favorably, as a time of

44、genuine progress for former slaves and the South as a whole. </p><p>　　For all Americans, Reconstruction was a time of fundamental social, economic, and political change. The overthrow of Reconstruction left

45、 to future generations the troublesome problem of racial justice.</p><p>　　Analysis of the character of Rhett Butler in seven aspects</p><p>　　1. He is handsome and charming.</p><p>

46、;　　In the eyes of Atlanta’s people, Rhett Butler was a dashing figure and one that people turned to look at. He spent money freely, rode a wild black stallion, and wore which were always the height of style and tailoring

47、. There were few ladies who could resist his charm when he chooses to exert.</p><p>　　At the barbecue of Twelve Oaks, it was the first time Scarlett met Rhett Butler, “He was a tall man and powerfully built

48、. Scarlett thought she had never seen a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy to for gentility. When her eye caught his, he smiled, showing animal-white teeth below a closed-clipped black

49、mustache. He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate’s appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be r</p><p>　　At a charity ball in Atlanta, they met

50、 again. Rhett Butler appeared like this: He was dressed in black broadcloth, a tall man, towering over the officers who stood near him, bulky in the shoulders but tapering to a small waist and absurdly small feet in varn

51、ished boots. His severe black suit, with fine ruffled shirt and trousers smartly strapped beneath high insteps, was oddly at variance with his physique and face, for he was foppishly groomed, the clothes of a dandy on a

52、body that was powerful</p><p>　　Every time Rhett called Scarlett. She thought: there was something exciting about him that she could not analyze, something different from any man she had ever known. There wa

53、s something breathtaking in the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in the impertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit t

54、o subdue him</p><p>　　One time, Scarlett was on Rhett’s carriage. She suddenly thought how nice it was to see a nice man who was a whole, …, and who looked well fed and healthy. He was so well dressed, too.

55、His coat and trousers were actually of the same material and they filled him. …. He looked as if he had not a care in the world and that in itself was startling these days, …. His brown face was bland and his mouth, red

56、lipped, clear cut as a woman’s, frankly sensual, smiled carelessly. The muscles of his body rip</p><p>　　Above all, we can see Rhett is very handsome and charming.</p><p>　　2. He is a renegade.

57、</p><p>　　Rhett Butler was descended from a noble family, but he is not a gentleman. He was a renegade who was called a scamp, a rascal and a gambler </p><p>　　He had the worst reputation and he

58、 wasn’t received in the best parlors. He had been expelled from West Point for drunkenness and “something about women”. That terrific scandal concerning the Charleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had kill

59、ed was public property. He is a black sheep of a lovely family-his father, a charming old gentleman with an iron will and a ramrod for a backbone had cast him out without a penny when he was twenty and even stricken his

60、name from the family Bible</p><p>　　He thought virtues are stupid. And he flouted the conventions. As a gentleman, he should appear to believe a lady even when he knew she was lying. That was Southern chival

61、ry. A gentleman always obeyed the rules and said the correct things and made life easier for a lady. But Rhett seemed not to care for rules and evidently enjoyed talking of the things no one ever talked about. When Rhett

62、 and Scarlett were together, he annoyed her frequently and got her into a speechless temper. Rhett’s eyes ran</p><p>　　A gentleman should love a girl who was mousy and no sense at all. But Rhett loved Scarle

63、tt because she was not a lady. He said: “however, ladies have seldom held any charms for me. I know what they are thinking, but they never have the courage or lack of breeding to say what they are thinking. And that, in

64、time, become a bore. But you are a girl of rare spirit, very admirable spirit, and I take off my hat to you. ”②</p><p>　　A gentleman shouldn’t look at a woman who is pregnant. In addition, he shouldn’t talk

65、about it. Rhett didn’t think so. “I know I’m not a gentleman, in view of the fact that pregnant women do not embarrass me as they should. I find it possible to treat them as normal creatures and not look at the ground or

66、 the sky or anywhere else in the universe except their waist lines-and then cast at them those furtive glances I’ve always thought the height of indecency. … It’s a normal state and women should</p><p>　　All

67、 the things he did and all the words he said prove he is a renegade.</p><p>　　3. He is cynical and sagacious.</p><p>　　Rhett bore an impersonal contempt for everyone and everything in the South,

68、 the Confederacy in particular, and took no pains to conceal it. It was his remarks about the Confederacy that made Atlanta look at him first in bewilderment, then coolly and then with hot rage. He seemed to take pleasur

69、e not only in affronting the sincere and red- hot loyalties of Atlanta but in presenting himself in the worst possible light. When well-meaning people complimented him on his bravery in running the blockad</p><

70、;p>　　4. He has a clear understanding of the society and war, and has the courage to say the truth.</p><p>　　Rhett told Scarlett“our Southern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Midd

71、le Ages. The wonder is that it’s lasted as long as it has. It had to go and it’s going now.” “This empire we’re live in-the south-the confederacy-the Cotton Kingdom –it’s breaking up right under our feet.” “The idea of a

72、ssistance from abroad is just a newspaper invention to keep up the morale of the South. The confederacy is doomed. It’s living on its hump now, like the camel, even the largest of hump</p><p>　　At Mrs.Elsing

73、’s silver musicale, Rhett talked about“the Cause is not sacred”loudly: “All wars are sacred, to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars did not make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

74、 But no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purpose they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squ

75、abbles. But so few people ever realize it. Thei</p><p>　　At Aunt Pitty’s party, Mr.Meade said arrogantly:“There will be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee. General Joh

76、nston and his army stands there in the mountains like an iron rampart. Sherman will never pass. He will never dislodge Old Joe. One confederate is worth a dozen Yankees.” Rhett spoke out the truth: “Sherman has over one

77、hundred thousand men, now that his reinforcements have come up. But General Johnston had only about forty thousand, counting the d</p><p>　　Only Rhett could say these words. Other man didn’t know or dare to

78、say.</p><p>　　5. He is shrewd and farsighted.</p><p>　　Rhett told Scarlett that there were two times for making big money, one in the up building of a country and the other in its destruction. S

79、low money on the building, fast money in the crack-up.</p><p>　　Captain Butler was one of the best pilots in the South and that he was reckless and utterly without nerves. Reared in Charleston, he knew every

80、 inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington. He had never lost a boat or even been forced to dump a cargo. At the onset of the war, he ha

81、d emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a swift boat and now, when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo</p><p>　　“Any loyal Confederate who had a thousand dollars in cash in

82、 1861 could have done what I did, but now few were mercenary enough to take advantage of their opportunities! As for instance, right after Fort Sumter fell and before the blockade was established, I bought up several tho

83、usand bales of cotton at dirt-cheap prices and ran them to England. They are still there in warehouses in Liverpool. I have never sold them. I am holding them until the England mills have to have cotton and will give me

84、</p><p>　　“I give myself about six months more of blockading and then I am though. After that, it will be too risky. And I will sell my boats to some foolish Englishman who thinks he can slip them though. Bu

85、t one way or the other, it is not bothering me. I have made money enough, and it is in English banks and in gold. None of this worthless paper for me.”⑧</p><p>　　Rhett sold his boats when blockading grew too

86、 hazardous, and he was openly engaged in food speculation.</p><p>　　During the war, it is a poverty-stricken world in the South. But Rhett had a half billion dollars“Half the money is honestly mine, honestly

87、 made with the aid of honest Union patriots who were willing to sell out the Union behind its back—for one-hundred-per-cent profit on their goods. Part I made out of my little investment in cotton at the beginning of the

88、 war, the cotton I bought cheap and sold for a dollar a pound when the British mills were crying for it. Part I got from food speculation. Wh</p><p>　　In a word, he is so shrewd and farsighted that he can ma

89、ke a lot of money. </p><p>　　6. He is kind, helpful and he loves the South in his own way.</p><p>　　Rhett , hearing of this thing that Maybelle was eager to have a white satin dress to marry,

90、brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a lace veil and presented them to her as a wedding gift. He not only brought her the satin but also he was able to give excellent hints on the making of

91、 the wedding dress. When he knew Melanie was pregnant and anxious to know the news of Ashley, he consoled her and did his best to find out the news. He went to New Orleans frequently to se</p><p>　　In the wa

92、r, Rhett was a great blockader, whose boats took out cotton for the Confederacy and brought in the war materials for which the South was desperate. He joined the army at the eleventh-hour, Scarlett thought: “ why had he

93、gone, stepping off into the dark, into the war, into a Cause that was lost, into a world that was mad? Why had he gone? Now he had set his varnished boots upon a bitter road where hunger tramped with tireless stride and

94、wounds and weariness and heartbreak ran like yelpin</p><p>　　In the Reconstruction, Rhett saved the lives of some Atlanta’s most prominent men with his resourcefulness although they hated him so much. He kil

95、led a nigger because he was uppity to a lady. With Rhett’s help, Georgia once more had a Democratic governor and Georgia belonged to herself. He said: “I am now a Democrat in good standing, devoted to my last drop of blo

96、od to recovering our beloved state from the hands of her ravishers!” “I am working harder than I ever worked with a shovel in the gold</p><p>　　Rhett has a kind heart and he loves the South deeply.</p>

97、<p>　　7. Rhett Butler loves Scarlett O’Hara as much as a man can love a woman.</p><p>　　Rhett loved Scarlett since the first time he saw her. He was willing to, indeed he did, and did everything for

98、her except telling her he loved her. Whenever Scarlett needed help, Rhett would appear.</p><p>　　In the war, Rhett saved Scarlett from the South custom of burying widows alive. He encouraged her to dance, go

99、t her out of mourning and lured her into accepting a gift which no lady could accept. He didn’t leave Atlanta when the siege was coming because he wanted to rescue her. Rhett came to the front porch when Scarlett was blu