THE IMAGE OF SCARLETT AS REPRESENTATION OF THE

THE IMAGE OF SCARLETT AS REPRESENTATION OF THE SOUTH IN MARGARET MITCHELL'S NOVEL “THE GONE WITH THE WIND” By students 511 -En Adelina Odai & Diana Kalmykova

SCARLETT HAS CHARACTERISTICS OF THEOLD SOUTH AND THE NEW SOUTH. ON ONE HAND, SHE HAS A NOSTALGIC ATTACHMENT TO THE OLD SOUTH.

PLAYING THE ROLE OF A LADY NEVER COMES EASILY TO HER, HOWEVER, AS HER TRUE NATURE IS SELFISH, VAIN AND CALCULATING, AND SHE HAS A RUTHLESSNESS, GREED AND AMBITION THAT CRAVE EXPRESSION.

AS THE OLD POWER STRUCTURES COLLAPSE, SCARLETT IS ABLE TO MOVE INTO THE VACUUM.

HER JOURNEY TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY, WHICH BEGAN WHEN SHE DELIVERED MELANIE'S BABY UNASSISTED, CULMINATES IN HER SUPPORTING THE WILKES FAMILY AND MANY MEMBERS OF HER OWN FAMILY.

THE ONLY PERSON WHO HELPSSCARLETT CONSISTENTLY IN HER BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IS RHETT, WHO, LIKESCARLETT, EMBODIES MANY QUALITIES OF THENEW SOUTH.

BOTH SCARLETT AND RHETT ARE OPPORTUNISTS AND WORK WITH SCALAWAGS, YANKEES AND CARPETBAGGERS WHEN IT IS PROFITABLE TO THEM, REFLECTING THE IDEOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY THAT THE SOUTH HAD TO ADOPT IN ORDER TO SURVIVE THE WAR.

SCARLETT'S IDENTIFICATION WITH THENEW SOUTH IS REFLECTED IN HER MOVING FROMTARA TO ATLANTA.

IN THE END, HOWEVER, SCARLETT RETURNS TO TARA, SHOWING THAT HOWEVER MUCH OF ANEW SOUTHERN WOMAN SHE HAS BECOME, HER ROOTS AND THE SOURCE OF HER STRENGTH REMAIN IN THEOLD SOUTH.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!