Even if Scarlett Has strong persistence and persistence, they will become vulnerable with the passage of time. Just like the book Gone with the Wind, the paper will become yellow and worn, but the characters and their spirits will never go with the wind.
In the movie "Gone with the Wind", Hao Scarlett's "Tomorrow is another day" (tomorrow is another day) is deeply imprinted in her mind.
Ten years ago, when I watched the movie, I was deeply impressed by Scarlett's strong and independent personality and was also touched by Bradder's love with Scarlett; ten years later, when I spent two weeks reading the original book "Gone with the Wind" by the American writer Margaret Mitchell, I found that this is a "perfect textbook of life" about survival and life, self-improvement and struggle, friendship and love, tolerance and loyalty, and all the answers I want to know are in the book.
The novel takes place on the eve of the American Civil War in 1861. Living in Tara Manor, Scarlett Hao is deeply influenced by southern culture, superficially retaining a ladylike style but also full of rebellious personality.
On the eve of the outbreak of war, her greatest pain was that her beloved Wesley was engaged to her cousin Melanie. She confessed to Wesley but was frustrated. With the war and the change of living environment, Hao Scarlett returned to Tara Manor, thinking of having the protection of her family, but only the decline of the manor, the death of her mother and the dementia of her father were greeted by her, and Hao Sijia became the head of the Tara Manor family. She was not overwhelmed by setbacks, and even rebuilt the manor after the war, rewriting the fate of her individual and family.
Scarlett Lives Out of Herself and Loses HerSelf
As described in the book:
"God testifies, God testifies, the Yankees can't bring me down." I'm going to get through it, and when it's all over, I'll never go hungry again. No, neither will my relatives. Even if I had to steal and rob, kill and set fires — God testifies , I will never go hungry again. ”
After such a turning point in fate, Hao Sijia is strong and indomitable in the face of life. But in the face of feelings, it is lost.
She has been married three times, but not once has she really read about feelings. Blinded by jealousy, she married Charles; married Frank for three hundred dollars in taxes; and in the face of true love Brad, she was content to enjoy but trample on his love at will.
As Bradd says to her in the book:
"I love you, but I can't let you know. You're cruel to those who love you, Scarlett. You accept their love, but you hang it over their heads as a whip. ”
"Because you're like a child, Scarlett. A child crying for the moon. A child, even if he gets the moon, what can he do with it? And what about you and Healy? Yes, I pity you--seeing you throw happiness away with both hands, but stretch out your hands to chase something that will never make you happy. ”
Scarlett Hao was like a child, a child who had been frightened in the war, otherwise he would not have been so insensitive. If she hadn't been a child, she wouldn't have gone home immediately to make a break with her husband Brad because of a few words of Wesley; she wouldn't have thought that a word of apology would have saved all the misunderstandings and hurts she had caused before.
Brad left, and the book describes: "If she had known Healy in the past, she would never have fallen in love with him; and if she had known Red in the past, she would never have lost him." ”
People know how to cherish it after they lose it, but unfortunately, the dispersion of people at the end of the song has long become a foregone conclusion.
Brad's departure is, after all, Scarlett's misfortune
Brad, who has a rough personality and is unruly, is a businessman who crosses the blockade line to make huge profits. Beneath his cynical exterior, he hides his affection and unique character for Scarlett.
When Brad and Scarlett meet, Scarlett's confession to Wesley is frustrated, and she is ashamed and angry, and breaks a vase.
"Sir, you are not a gentleman!"
"And you, Miss, you are not a lady either."
Because Scarlett bravely expressed her thoughts and even broke the vase, Red fell in love with Scarlett at first sight.
Although Red is cynical and elusive on the surface, he loves Scarlett silently and wholeheartedly after getting to know her.
After they are married, Red knows all the hardships scarlett has gone through, and he wants Scarlett to stop fighting and let him continue to fight for her, but the persistence and persistence in Scarlett's heart and her indelible feelings for Wesley hurt Red. After the death of their daughter Bonnie, he and Scarlett have an irreparable rift.
"I've never been that kind of person, able to patiently pick up pieces, glue them together, and tell myself that the repaired one is as good as the new one." What is broken is broken--I would rather remember what it was like when it was still intact than fix it and look at the broken place in my lifetime. ”
After Red leaves, Scarlett utters the classic line "Tomorrow is another day." Years later, the phrase "Tomorrow is another day" is not a way for Scarlett to throw the problem to tomorrow.
Wei Xili's cowardice is the deepest, and Melanie's hidden patience takes into account the overall situation
Scarlett's obsession with Wesley's love stemmed from a 16-year-old girl's fantasy of love. She put a beautiful dress on Wei Xili, who was riding a white horse, but forgot whether the dress fit or not.
Wesley's cowardice makes him not know how to reject Scarlett, hovering between the beloved Melanie and Scarlett. Cowardly people do the most evil, so that people on both sides are hurt.
And Melanie, a woman who was respected by Brad. When they face the Yankees, she is a close friend who can fight for Scarlett at any time, and the one who stands up for scarlett when all atLanta does not accept Scarlett.
Did Melanie really not realize that Scarlett was in love with Wesley? She knows everything, but she is patient, let Melanie take care of the overall situation, and when she is dying, she is still thinking about others.
Li Meihua, the translator of Gone with the Wind, wrote in the preface: "No matter how much the war has turned out to be a good life, no matter what changes have taken place in society, she still has to survive at all costs, and she must do everything in her power to preserve Tara, the land that will give her strength when she is in trouble." ”
Land is the source of all the strength that gives Scarlett Holsgath.
War is not the most cruel, and the aggression of values after war is the most cruel reality, because those original ways of life have long since passed away with the wind.
No matter how strong the persistence and persistence, they will become fragile with the passage of time, just like books.
But the characters in the books and their spirits never die with the wind.
*Caption, illustration | Stills from "Gone with the Wind", from the Internet