Compare And Contrast Gone With The Wind

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Gone with the wind

„Gone with the wind” by Margaret Mitchell was first published in 1936, it has received Pulitzer Prize and Academy price for Best picture, it is one of the best-loved novels on the BBC`s The Big Read inquiry. The film “Gone with the wind” was released in 1939, it has received 10 Oscars and is the highest grossing film of all the time. Both book and film are awarded and beloved by the audience and the readers. The main character is Scarlett O`Hara – daughter of a plantation (Tara) owner, she is beautiful, vivid, shrewd and used to have everything she wants and she wants money mostly – during the story she understood that the money for her is the thing which really matters. She thinks different than others and gets stricture from society, but it does not bother her. Scarlett is head over heels in love
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There are also what has been portrayed in book better than in film – the glitter of the times before the war, the book reflects Scarlett`s thoughts and feeling and they are more complex as in the film. The special, majestic atmosphere of the film brings the ouverture and few composition during the film like in opera in book the some does beautifully and vividly written descriptions.
The film is in complete set with the book. Watching film without reading a book could make a delusion of the story, despite the book which is independent from the film. The book as well as film is not for everyone, but only for those who enjoy love stories, for those who are interested in history, for the well described Civil War and Reconstruction and those who like challenge, because of more than thousand pages in the book and nearly four hours long film. The book as well as film is unforgettable experience, it may not be able to stop reading the

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