Gone With The Wind Theme

Gone with the Wind is a controversial movie due to its portrayals of slavery in the South and the existing "genteel Southern civilization" in the South being portrayed and blown out of proportion, and by the invasion and defeat of the South by "the dirty Yankees", during and after the Civil War. This portrayal is reasonable because slavery remains to this day a stain on the history of our great nation. The movie is based on the book of the same title written by Margaret Mitchell, a native of Georgia who gleaned her knowledge of the war from elderly surviving Civil War veterans.
The primary character of the film is Scarlett O 'Hara, an innocent, childish and naïve lady who believes she is in love with a man who is already in love. The drama mainly focuses on romance, not military conflicts. Soldiers are not shown marching into battle, continuing and dying from cannon shot and bullets from the other side. The movie does deal with the real genesis of war, which is Southern politicians reacted with panic and ignorance. Their reaction was caused by the election of President Abraham Lincoln in fear of the abolition of slavery. The movie, in fact never attempts to show both sides of the disagreement between President Lincoln and Southern politicians.
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The theme of the film to this day continues to be an excellent example of a historical movie that portrays life as it existed in the South during the American Civil War. It shows how the South’s beliefs were destroyed by the Civil War, and that they were forced to adjust for the future because of the results of the conflict between North and South. The story illustrates how the sharp contrasts between the two protagonists in this confrontation had the effect that one of them inevitably was “Gone with the