Ashley Wilkes

contact if you attempted to carry a meaningful conversation with him. He was a plastic preacher in plastic church, blinding people’s sense of truth just because he could quote from the book of Ruth. "You know, I was thinking, since my son Ashley and your daughter Kimmy are the same age, maybe she could be a good influence on him and eventually lead him to christ!" She said ecstatically. I hated my name! My mother justified her actions of bestowing…

Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…

In Gone with the Wind, Mitchell portrays some Southern female stereotypes – especially that of week and docile woman, such as Scarlett’s sisters and Ashley’s sister, India Wilkes – and then undermines them by delimiting their roles. Despite the severe gender inequality of that time, females in Gone with the Wind show strength and ability that equals the strength and ability of males. The chief focus of the conflict between…

Kyarah Rogers Gone With the Wind was historically inaccurate in its portrayal of the role of convicts, recognition of events, race relations, and the practice of slavery during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. To begin, the cinema falsely presented the role of post-Civil War workers known as convicts (History is Elementary). At the end of the war, Scarlett found herself struggling to pay her taxes, so she decided to start a lumber business. Of course, she needed men…

Children tend to choose a certain person in their life or a character to be their role model. As they grow older their views change and things happen in their life that they change who they want their role model to be. A lot of people choose their mothers or a certain person or character that has achieved a lot in life and stand for a specific cause to be their new role model. Films that have been viewed in class that have good strong female role models are: alone yet not alone, gone with the…