【正文】 form and is ceaselessly dynamic in the media, such impact no doubt greatly influences her creation of the novel. In addition, Margaret is born in the middleclass family with fine education. Her father Eugene Muse Mitchell is a prominent attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society while her mother Mary Isabelle is a suffragist who strives all her life for women?s liberation and political rights. It is under such educational and social background that Margaret Mitchell creates her immortal work Gone with the Wind with abundant feministic thought which reestablishes female images and explores women?s values. III. Feminism reflected by typical female characters In Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell has portrayed a series of strong and courageous female images that are always making unremitting efforts to pursue for true love and free marriage, for women?s selfconsciousness and selfactualization, and for economical equality and personal independence. Though the southern women in the author?s description are under suppression, they are by no means the ignorant vulnerable group. With their own universal love, wisdom and toughness, they prop up the civilization of the South as well as its plantation economy, confirming the truth that women are fully capable to be selfreliant and as useful and tough as men. They possess a kind of “soft power”—— the power of femininity or more precisely the power of female intrinsic values. Embodied with these values, women reflect a soft but strong spirit. They are just like those bamboos which can be bent but can never be broken. Therefore when the southern society is under decline, female consciousness bees the staunch spiritual mainstay that guides people to march forward bravely. “If we?d had our mothersinlaw in the ranks, we?d have beaten the Yankees in a week” “The only reason we lasted as long as we did was because of the ladies behind us who wouldn?t give up” (Margaret Mitchell, 2021). Consequently it is in the first place through these outstanding female characters that the author vividly conveys an extraordinarily advanced idea of her days——feminism. This part will explore the rich feministic thought through two typical characters. A. Feminism in Scarlett O?Hara Scarlett O?Hara, the heroine, is an artistic character that has strong, clearcut, and rebellious individuality. As the apple of her parents? eyes, she es on the stage from the age of 16 to 28, during which she has married three husbands, been a widow twice, given birth to three babies and also has spared no efforts to revive the family business. When creating this female image, the author places her under the wild social background of American Civil War and the background of the reconstruction after the war, demonstrates her disposition and manners in multiaspects of her life in love, war and family with a full reflection of her winding and changing psychological journey。而本文將從女性主義視角入手，從女性的地位與價(jià)值，一系列個(gè)性鮮明的女性形象，以及自然與女性的關(guān)系加以闡釋，由此分析這部作品體現(xiàn)的女性自我意識(shí)的覺醒以及其在推動(dòng)三四十年代女性覺醒和解放運(yùn)動(dòng)的地位和作用。米歇爾作為現(xiàn)代世界 文壇巨匠，憑借其唯一的一部作品《飄》就名揚(yáng)天下，成為美國文學(xué)史一顆耀眼的明星。作為第一部從南方女性角度敘述美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)的小說，瑪格麗特著重描寫了留在后方家里的婦女飽受戰(zhàn)亂之苦的體驗(yàn)和感受以及戰(zhàn)后立志重建家園的艱辛歷程。 關(guān)鍵詞 ：《飄》 婦女 女性主義 生態(tài)女性主義 Contents Ⅰ . Introduction Ⅱ . Background of Margaret Mitchell?s age A. Women?s social status in American society reflected in the novel B. Social influences on Margaret Mitchell?s female sense 1. Awakening of women?s consciousness and pushing of antislavery movement 2. Feministic movement?s attack on American southern culture and the author Ⅲ . Feminism reflected by typical female characters A. Feminism in Scarlett O?Hara 1. Fight against traditional conventions and emphasis on selfconsciousness 2. Dedication of love and unremitting seek for her own happiness 3. Pursuit of economic independence and selfactualization B. Feminism in Ellen O?Hara 1. Pursuit of true love and free marriage 2. Model mother (a). Establishment of standard manners for others (b). Living and spiritual backbone of the family IV. Ecofeminism reflected in Gone with the wind A. Introduction of ecofeminism B. Ecofeminism reflected by two natural images in the novel 1. Ecofeminism by the image of earth 2. Ecofeminism by the image of house (a). House of Gerald (b). House of Melanie (c). House of Scarlett V. Conclusion Ⅰ . Introduction Gone with the Wind, the masterpiece of American female writer Margaret Mitchell is one of the most distinguished representative works of American literature and can be parable with Tolstoy39。 thus brings about for the readers a female who is brave enough to face life, unwilling to be indifferent, and persistent in the pursuit of selfvalue. In the patriarchal society, Scarlett opposes to the gender discrimination from the bottom of her heart。 however such fort is not from God but from her mother?s peaceful face as she is praying. In Scarlett?s eyes, her mother Ellen rather than God is her real spiritual backbone and source of wisdom. Therefore when Scarlett leaves her mother, her religious convention bees quite weak. “Scarlett?s conscience smote her at this last, for it had been months since she had been to church.”(Margaret Mitchell, 2021). In addition, the misery later brought by the war further stops Scarlett from going to the church, praying or municating with God, for she feels that asking for God?s blessing dose little good to relieve her sufferings. She even questions God?s power and justice in her heart “For some time she had felt that God was not watching out for her, the Confederates or the South, in spite of the millions of prayers ascending to Him daily” (Margaret Mitchell, 2021). After pushing through the flames of the war and going through thick and thin, Scarlett return home Tara only to find her mothe