“随风而去”还是“挥之不去”——《飘》与《冷山》中的南方情结比较分析

“Gone with the wind” or “Never Disappear”——Comparison of South Complex between Gone with the Wind and Cold Mountain

《冷山》是与《飘》齐名的美国南方小说,这两部作品作有着诸多相似之处:都以南北战争为背景,以战争和爱情为主线,两个女主角都在乱世中找到真爱,然后分别,重逢,再分别,从上层社会的淑女变成勇敢坚强的成熟女人。两部小说中都充满了浓厚的南方情结。就其中的家园意识和回归思想进行比较分析,探讨南方特殊的历史文化传统和人们对土地的眷恋在小说中的反映,以及战争的残酷和对生活的执着等这些互相交织的因素对主人公的内心世界的影响。

Cold Mountain and Gone with the Wind are both famous southern novels, there are many similarities in two fictions：background is civil war; the mainlines of stories are war and love; two heroines both find true love in the wartime, and departed,reunited and departed again.They become mature women and find hope of the life.At the same time, these two novels are full filled with south complex.The essay will analyses home consciousness and return thought, discuss the special south cultural tradition and people＇s love for earth, the cruelty of the war and love for life in the two novels.