【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 religions, women?s rights and so forth. This conference adopted Elizabeth Cady Stanton?s Declaration of Sentiments which modeled piercingly Jefferson?s Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men and women are created equal… The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part if men toward women, having in objection the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her…” (Deborah , 2021) This feministic movement, quickly sweeping through the entire America, culminates in the early 20th century, which is later viewed as the first wave of American feminism. The Abolition Movement and Feministic Movement exert great impact on American traditional southern culture. For Margaret who lives in those turbulent years of reform 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。 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。 she is neither reconciled to the passive position nor to the failure。 besides, she keeps being herself, and always directly expresses and immediately takes action for what she wants. All of these are the epitomes of her strong sense of feminism. It can be said that she, form beginning to end, is against sexism and the fetters imposed on her by the gender attribution, and does her utmost to look for women?s rights which are equal to or even more than those of men?s with her own practices. She is the perfect embodiment of Virginia Woolf?s “androgyny” thought governed by two kinds of power at the same time: the feminine power, soft on the outside while staunch on the inside。 and the masculine power, tender inside despite a hard shell. She overthrows the images of “angels” or “l(fā)amias” in the patriarchal literature, and bees a masculine woman—— a woman with men?s wisdom, indomitable will and wild ambitions. As an image with the ideal personality of “androgyny” which is the deconstruction of gender binary opposition, Scarlett announces Margaret?s strong protest against malecentered values. 1. Fight against traditional conventions and emphasis on selfconsciousness French famous semiologist Julia Kristeva once said that “God” in patriarchal religion creates the world: he separates light from darkness, land from ocean, and a variety of animals and human beings from himself, putting over the original chaotic connection. Through similar separation, humans are divided into two categories: men and women. Women are departed from men, turning into wives, daughters, mothers, or being the three at the same time with the function of multiplication (Julia Kristeva, 1974). God seldom talks to women and most of religions in western cultures oppress women?s consciousness. In patriarchal society, God stands up for men, the evidences of