New Women--Written before March 8th

Stevie 2022-10-07 18:13:19

I thought that to understand American women, there are two books that I must read. One is "Gone with the Wind" and the other is "Little Women". Both novels have been adapted into movies, and the former seems to have a greater impact, so that there is no future, any sequel or remake is suspected of being a sequel. "Little Women" was filmed three times, and each time was not very successful, but I think the 33-year version is more in line with the spirit of the original, because it contains Catherine Hepburn, a real American woman.

It is interesting to compare these two works.
Although "Gone with the Wind" is based on grand historical events, it has a strong legendary and romantic spirit in terms of characterization and storyline. Not to mention Scarlett, a woman who has made men pursue for 12 years-I doubt whether there is such a thing in real life, Ritter, an American-style Mr. Darcy, Meilan, a model of moral perfection, even Ah Xili is also a gentleman who was born in the wrong era. The plot of the story is more dreamy. The romance and struggle history of a woman at least inspired our great literary and artistic standard-bearer, Comrade Jiang Qing. Perhaps in the heart of this literary and artistic young woman, she has regarded herself as a new Gone with the Wind. With wit, bravery and beauty, she started her adventurer career in another turbulent era and country. Of course, the ending was very miserable, but as a female colleague of mine said when she heard the news of her death back then-
this is a stout woman.

Margaret Mitchell is a woman with an old religious background in the South of the United States, so in her writing, the South is not the hell in the book of Madame Stowe, a northern woman, but a peaceful and peaceful pastoral, where people live ashes. The kind of classical and elegant life that I yearn for. Although she also realizes that this life is outdated, she inevitably reveals a trace of nostalgia and melancholy. This is also the lament of the collapse of the former manor aristocratic spirit in the works of Tennessee Williams. Yes, music, poetry, art, morality, and beauty will all be replaced by roaring machines. All sentimental, lyrical, ideal and romantic things will be crushed by the ruthless modern industrialized society. This era that has passed away is an era of loyal, dedicated, gentle, and temperate wives and mothers like Meilan and Ellen. Family and children are the center of their lives. Love is romantic - this is S. The only thing that Carrie brought from the old age was conservative and obedient to marriage. Scarlett’s marriage was a product of the new era, a utilitarian contract based on property, which created her spiritual and physical relationship. Opposition, there is no way to accept a man who loves him in reality, always infatuated with an illusory man, of course, is doomed to suffer a double failure.
Women are more likely to fall into inextricable fantasies than men. They have an overly idealistic appeal to love itself. She is always driven by her inner fantasies to pounce on a shadow or an empty shell. It is hard to say whether she loves the real person or her own heart. Sometimes it is simply because of satisfying a habit of love-Byron, and thinking that you are in love with someone, but the dream is broken and the person is gone. It seems impossible for a woman to have no illusions about love, and the more she is self-righteous, the more fantasies and complaints about men. Her mind is full of men from literature, but if these men really get out of the books, such as Mr. Rochester, I promise to scare away women who compare themselves to Jane Eyre---if you really like George Sco. That's not enough.


I like Katherine Hepburn.
She is the true Lady Liberty. With passionate red hair, blue eyes, indifferent to the freckles on her face, a pair of slender legs hidden in trousers and striding, she seems to be a Valkyrie, so heroic, and exudes an incomparable kind. Heroic and confident. The daughter of Doctor Connecticut and a feminist is a real legend. She does not belong to the dreamy, fragile, and somewhat neurotic beauty of the old world. She is from the new world, healthy, brave, and clear-headed. , A bit rough, she knows exactly what she wants and what she can do. She is no longer looking for the knight in the story, the perfect male protagonist, not beauty, status, or money. What she pursues is independent personality and spirituality. Communication, spiritual equality.
This is where a Protestant woman differs from a woman of Catholic background.
Protestant bourgeois women are calm, even cold, but it does not mean succumbing to the world. On the contrary, like Nora, she pursues her own dignity rather than expecting an ideal man. Because what her early education told her was not the medieval love story, but the truth about the world and human nature that the actual northern women told them. Of course, it may be a bit cruel for a girl to know these prematurely, which made them adopt an attitude towards feelings. This attitude of skepticism and restraint, no longer have romantic fantasies about men, but look for someone who fits in with his own soul, a person who is not too beautiful, not too rich, and not too unrestrained, but surely able to communicate with each other Independent tolerant man. What she asks is equal relationship, independent personality, respect and trust.

Professor Baja in the film is a somewhat funny German professor. He seems to be dull, unable to express, and has no appealing appearance. It is hard to imagine that our boyish Joe would like such a man. But just like Hepburn Equsser, George Guke knew that treating a dynamic woman like Hepburn must be balanced by a generous and quiet man. This man may be unsightly, may be flawed, and in some ways. Fragile, but he must have a charm that calms her down and no longer nervous. Most importantly, the Valkyrie needs a realistic soul mate to relax her nervous nerves, ease her impulses, and suppress her arrogance in some ways.
When Professor Baha played and sang Goethe's tunes, he immediately conquered the female talent.
Only those who understand my desire can understand my pain.
Joe showed a gentle expression in front of a man for the first time.
The stubborn, eager and talented woman succumbed to Goethe's verses.

Professor Baha’s actor is Paul Lucas, who plays Dr. Harz in "The Missing Woman", and the German officer in "Casablanca". Perhaps the director is attracted by his strong German accent. In Gu Ke, the woman is the protagonist, and only a mature and generous man like Qusay or Rex Harrison can contend with the heroine. Other actors are just a foil.

Our spirit is the same!
Only those who understand my desire can understand my pain.
This is my soul calling me. - Romeo

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  • Jo March: If wearing hair up means becoming a lady, I'll wear it down until I'm 100 years old.

  • Jo March: [about her short haircut] Well it's boyish, becoming and easy to maintain.