Scarlett and Melanie: Red Roses and White Roses
Huang Zihong
Whether it is the original book or the movie, most of the world remembers Hao Sijia, and Vivien Leigh, who played her, is regarded as a classic, but not many people miss Melanie.
Melanie, in today's parlance, is called Our Lady (though I really have no ill will, it's a positive evaluation), because she is too kind and tolerant of spiritual beauty, and seems so unreal, more like a character in a novel than Scarlett's wayward rebellion. She is the most popular person in the township who is regarded as a good friend by every family, she loves her husband, loves her children, her wife and mother, pours out her heart to others, and bravely guards the weak. Yes, she was also brave, though a little weaker. There's only one thing she's stubborn about, and that's love me, love my dog, accept me, just accept my friend, best friend, Scarlett Hao. Scarlett was dismissive of that. In the end, she died, in order to have one more girl, 囧.
Ashley realizes at this point that what he loves most is not Scarlett but his wife, and Scarlett realizes that this is her only best and sincere friend.
Many people with traditional ideas, when they first read the novel, were super fond of Melanie. I can't even understand, where is the beauty of Scarlett Hao? Now that I think about it, the charm of a masterpiece is that years can teach you to read it.
Hao Scarlett's willful rebellion and at the same time burst out of brave tenacity, even today, few women will appreciate from the bottom of their hearts, let alone to be such a person.
So what else did her tenacity and bravery have besides robbing her sister's fiancé to guard the manor?
What impressed me most was that the enemy army was approaching, the war was raging, Esley's wife Melanie was about to die, Scarlett endured jealousy and cursed her not to die, but did not leave, and finally Brad drove a carriage to save a group of orphans and widows. So Melanie regards Scarlett As a savior, a best friend, and even if there are gossip about her and her husband Ashley in the end, she chooses to trust and maintain Scarlett.
Scarlett Hao is a wayward and rebellious little girl. If today, she would have infinite possibilities, she could start a business (and even in that era, she later started a business), she could be an actress, she could... But in an era when women were going to marry at the age of 16, she didn't really have so many possibilities.
But she still makes people see a different kind of feminine beauty, that is, to be a wayward and rebellious little girl forever!
Men love me, I take care of it, men don't love me, I gamble, I think the right thing, I must do, I want to buy, I don't care how the villagers see me, I want to remarry, even if it is to marry my brother-in-law, even if it is to marry the notorious Brad.