Gone with the Wind

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.…

There’s so much more to Gone With The Wind than cheesy, Civil War era, romance. There is race relations and female empowerment, but the book touches on the ugliness of war, the power of the land ownership and land itself, tradition, self reliance, and loss. Margaret Mitchell does a marvelous job of individually addressing separate real life issues of land, family and community, which affected the everyday lives of the characters. Gone With the Wind has a main theme of land possession and love…

Movies have been made over the years that have sparked public outcry for being too racist or portraying a certain ethnicity in a poor light. Some would say that the movies are strictly for entertainment and that racism is truly not felt in the films. Two films that have sparked a great deal of public outcry would be Birth of a Nation, which was filmed in 1915. A more surprising film that has upset some people would be Gone with the Wind, which was filmed in 1939. Many people would not assume…

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…

Our world today has become arrogant, sensitive, and critical. Books are being banned in result of the sensitivity of our nation, including the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The novel takes place in the south during the Civil War era and follows a young woman’s romantic life and her survival through the war. She pursues the love of her life while in doing so must fight for her survival in the war plagued south. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel, some believe the…

1. Summary: The film Gone with the Wind starts before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Scarlett lives at Tara with her parents and two sisters. She finds out Ashley, the man she loves, is engaged to Melanie. She decides to reveal her feeling to him in private, but he rejects her by pointing out their incompatibility. To her surprise, there is a third person present, Rhett Butler, who have heard all the conversation between them and her confession to him. Scarlett is irritated and starts…

Many people argue that love for family, a lover, or a career propels individuals forward in life by giving them a reason to succeed. However, this love may cause some people to become so obsessed that they lose sight of what transpires as truly important to them in life. Different types of love, such as romantic, family, and career, blind people from seeing clearly in life, and being able to obtain their goals and true purpose. Love for significant others acts as one of the most powerful forces…

It is extremely rare for someone to just write one book and be famous and important in the literary world. The author Mitchell Margret of Gone with the Wind did it, However. Since 1936, this book had been published, it has been translated into 29 different kinds of languages, and remains the most popular novel until today and has great impact on people. ( http://baike.haosou.com/doc/2611564-7572390.html ) This story contains many aspects of life: about attitudes, choices, relationship between…

The female lead in Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O’Hara played by Vivien Leigh was a highly emotional and overdramatic character. The actress contributed her strong and vain role through physical action and characterization. Throughout the film, Scarlett cries, yells and overdramatizes a multitude of conditions thrown her way. I believe it is the combination of cinematic techniques such as editing and sound that created an emotional impact among the film. Without the way Vivien’s character’s…

Ask most people what movie captures the classic Southern Belle, and most would answer, “Gone with the Wind”. Which is not surprising considering Hollywood’s role in perpetuating an idealized image of Southern white womanhood. However, while Gone with the Wind captures some aspects of the Southern Belle amid romanticized views of the Civil War South, filmgoers have a greater understanding of Southern womanhood when their repertoire is balanced out with the harsher aspects of Southern culture…