The Marriage View of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind from the Perspective of Ecological Feminism

Xinle Chen

doi:10.54254/2753-7064/2025.HT30319

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The Marriage View of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind from the Perspective of Ecological Feminism

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The Marriage View of Scarlett in Gone with the Wind from the Perspective of Ecological Feminism

Xinle Chen ^1*

¹ City University of Hong Kong

^*Corresponding author: xinlechen5-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Published on 4 December 2025

CHR Vol.100

ISSN (Print): 2753-7072

ISSN (Online): 2753-7064

ISBN (Print): 978-1-80590-577-6

ISBN (Online): 978-1-80590-578-3

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Abstract

This research utilized Karen Warren's ecofeminist viewpoint to look into Scarlett O'Hara's marital concept in the setting of Gone with the Wind, after the collapse of the American South's plantation system at the end of the Civil War and throughout the Reconstruction period; the examination showed that Scarlett's three marital selections during the course of the story encompassed the contradictory essence of patriarchal systems, using marriage as a means of survival while at the same time upholding a strong female identity based on a land - centered morality with the Tara plantation being the ecological bedrock; this seeming contradiction illustrated the built - in inconsistencies in women's emancipation during times of social turmoil when the breaking down of repressive ideas was along with a battle to entirely escape from dominant ways of thinking; the article argued that by carefully analyzing the text and delving into theory, Scarlett's attitude towards marriage stood for not just a resistance to traditional gender norms but also an attempt to build one's own identity among ecological and patriarchal difficulties thus forming an example of ecofeminist activity.

Keywords:

Karen Warren, ecological feminism, marriage concept, subjectivity

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