Gone with the Wind Research Paper
Gone With The Wind:
The Evolution Of Sex And Race In The 1930’s
Taylor Reed
English 101
Professor Reynoso
7 June 2010
How the 1930’s could have turned out to be positive instead of a negative. The difficult decade for many Americans was the 1930s. Knol Beta stated that “the Great Depression plagued citizens throughout the country because of lost jobs and a poor economy.” Although there wasn’t very much money left to be spent on nice items, Americans still turned to entertainment to remind themselves life is only what you make it. One of the greatest things to come out of the Great Depression was the film titled, Gone with the Wind. The movie Gone with the Wind falls into classic Hollywood story structure where “an initially reluctant protagonist who is drawn into a world of challenges faces various crises, gets to point where all seems lost, but ultimately arrives at a climax where the hero and the situation could have possibly changed forever.” The story had taken place before, during, and after the American Civil War and had a main focus on the life of a Southern Belle named Scarlett O’Hara. According to Wikipedia, the leading role of Scarlett O’Hara was played by Vivien Leigh. There were over 1,400 women who auditioned for the part. Several other big name actresses such as Lucille Ball and Katherine Hepburn all tried to get the leading female role. The story line nearly describes Scarlett’s life challenges to mark. She’s faced with such tragedies like the death of her husband and that causing her to leave Atlanta because of the invasion of the Yankees. Then she had found out her mother had passed and her homestead plantation in near ruins. When she’s at her lowest point in her life, she manages to overcome all odds and starts to rebuild her life to the point where she has become a prominent businesswoman. Such another tragic thing to occur is that in the end she loses her child and husband and is left to figure out what she can possibly do next.
The Evolution Of Sex And Race In The 1930’s
Taylor Reed
English 101
Professor Reynoso
7 June 2010
How the 1930’s could have turned out to be positive instead of a negative. The difficult decade for many Americans was the 1930s. Knol Beta stated that “the Great Depression plagued citizens throughout the country because of lost jobs and a poor economy.” Although there wasn’t very much money left to be spent on nice items, Americans still turned to entertainment to remind themselves life is only what you make it. One of the greatest things to come out of the Great Depression was the film titled, Gone with the Wind. The movie Gone with the Wind falls into classic Hollywood story structure where “an initially reluctant protagonist who is drawn into a world of challenges faces various crises, gets to point where all seems lost, but ultimately arrives at a climax where the hero and the situation could have possibly changed forever.” The story had taken place before, during, and after the American Civil War and had a main focus on the life of a Southern Belle named Scarlett O’Hara. According to Wikipedia, the leading role of Scarlett O’Hara was played by Vivien Leigh. There were over 1,400 women who auditioned for the part. Several other big name actresses such as Lucille Ball and Katherine Hepburn all tried to get the leading female role. The story line nearly describes Scarlett’s life challenges to mark. She’s faced with such tragedies like the death of her husband and that causing her to leave Atlanta because of the invasion of the Yankees. Then she had found out her mother had passed and her homestead plantation in near ruins. When she’s at her lowest point in her life, she manages to overcome all odds and starts to rebuild her life to the point where she has become a prominent businesswoman. Such another tragic thing to occur is that in the end she loses her child and husband and is left to figure out what she can possibly do next.
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