【正文】 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, 2020). 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, 2020). After pushing through the flames of the war and going through thick and thin, Scarlett return home Tara only to find her mother?s death and the devastated house with nobody and nothing to rely on. The death of her mother pletely cuts off the contact between God and her, and bees the symbol of her nonbelieving. The socalled “Omniscient and omnipotent” God cannot give her strength, nor can he be the one that can be counted on. Hence, she dose what she wants to do, says what she wants to say, and creates her own life with her own hands, regardless of the God?s will. From the very beginning she denies accepting the marriage proposed by her father. At the barbeque in the Twelve Oaks, she casts off lady?s style, takes the initiative to reveal her true love to Ashely and even proposes the idea of elopement. She throws off family bondage, steps out of the cave of “home” into society and no longer blindly sacrifices herself to fulfill others. Instead she courageously quests for true self and her value. Through her numerous anticonventional behaviors, Scarlett demonstrates her outstanding judgments and courage. Her behavior outdoes what the patriarchal society has set for women, expressing women?s desire for selfconsciousness and independent rights. Dedication of love and unremitting seek for her own happiness As for the marriage in the traditional patriarchal society, men occupy the positive role while women are passive. However, Scarlett actively keeps searching for her own marriage and true happiness. She chooses to express her deep love to Ashely instead of accepting the marriage selected by her father. Although her later marriages are resulted from life forces, they are her own decisions. She is the rare master of her love and marriage in that era. For many years, there is only one man in her heart——Ashely. In order to win his love, she simpers, pretends to be innocent and shows her off with every means which she despises so much. For this blind love, she would rather to raise Ashely?s whole family. Furthermore, she is even willing to give up her lumber mill?s half profits just for Ashely?s stay. After Ashely?s return from the war, he has nothing except depression and inability. However Scarlett, who always disdains the weak and the coward, shows her great tolerance and understanding to him, taking every possible measure to support him materially. Lost in her love, Scarlett considers Ashely as a deity. She would give everything even her life to do what he wants. But when she stands a chance to get Ashely, she miserably finds that he is not her “Mr. Right”. “He never really existed at all, except in my imagination” (Margaret Mitchell, 2020). She realizes her real beloved is Rhett, the man who stands behind her but quietly supports and loves her. But unfortunately it is too late to realize it because Rhett, with a deeply broken heart, decides to leave her. Although Scarlett is at her wits? end for a while, she regains her fighting spirit. She makes up her mind to get him back. She believes that she can make it as long as she has determined to do. She will not and neither can she admit failure. Her fate and her happiness are in her own hands. Therefore in Scarlett?s subconsciousness, she has strong awareness of male conquest. Feminism in Ellen O’Hara If Scarlett can be defined as a representative who is full of rebellious thoughts, then her mother Ellen O?Hara is a fore type of those traditional southern women who are all wellbred girls, good wives, loving mothers and t