Gone With The Wind Accuracy

In Gone With The Wind the main characters were Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler, and Ashley Wilkes. These Characters were fully fictional she even tried not to name them after anyone in Atlanta. The main events in the movie were actual events such as the civil war happening ad them burning down Atlanta.

One of the social issues it showed as the increase of poverty during the war. They had to pay a certain amount to keep the house and land. There was also a scarcity on food and clothing. Scarlett became one of the nurses to help wounded soldiers. Making it to where Scarlett and the other girls help collect cotton and food.

Gone With The Wind is showing the difficulty people had throughout the Civil war such as people becoming ill and husbands in the war dying. The show the Yankees burning down cities in Atlanta. Leading panic to the Southern States as they fill the roads and try to escape. The scarcity resources start to become in cities as the war continues on. See the Yankees try to overtake peoples homes. The producer was showing how hard the Southerners had it during that time period.

The clothes in the movies do resemble how people during that time frame dressed. The women wore corsets and over that would be an elaborate gown. While men wore mostly suits. …show more content…
Though one thing that the movie showed that was inaccurate is how the slaves were treated. Even though there could be some slave owners that treated their slaves good, but majority of slave owners did not. Some slave back then was heavily beaten if they were rebellious or the owners just did not like what they did. In the movie the slaves looked happy and willing to do anything to help the family out. At this point slaves were mostly already rebelled and ran away. Since most of the slaves have rebelled and ran away there is no way that they signed up to join the army to fight against the