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movie focuses on how the Civil War and Reconstruction were seen through southerners’ eyes. Gone with the Wind is about how life can go from luxurious to catastrophic. The main character was a woman named Scarlett O’Hara. She lived in Tara‚ Georgia on a plantation her father owned. One day‚ Scarlett went to a barbeque on the Wilkes plantation. While there‚ she confessed her love for a man named Ashley Wilkes‚ although the feeling was not mutual. He was already engaged to his cousin Melanie Hamilton
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the novel and saw the film as a young child. After listening to the synopsis‚ I was given a pamphlet and advised; it was a self-guided tour. As I began my journey down the mini ramp‚ I spotted four famous dresses to my right that were worn by Scarlett O’Hara in the novel
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her high-spirited and beautiful heroine‚ Scarlett O’Hara. The story is set around the time of the American Civil War (1861-1865)‚ when the Southern states went to war with the North to defend their way of life. It was a way of life in which rich gentry lived in large houses and owned huge areas of land‚ cultivated by black slaves. Scarlett O’Hara was born in one of those rich houses. But "Gone with the Wind" is also about a love triangle. While Scarlett loves the quiet‚ gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes
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Connection to APUSH Symbols: Ashley Wilkes Ashley symbolizes the old south Rhett Butler He represents a type of all who were ostracized from society because they didn’t conform to traditional expectations. Scarlett An early "women’s activist" Tara Home‚ Scarlett’s roots‚ the center of life which is worth fighting for. Mammy‚ Pork and Old Sam The types of the household slaves. Contrary to some beliefs‚ the slaves are a valued part of the family and
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of their characters. Gone With the Wind’s main character Scarlett O’Hara is a pretty southern belle whose first impression to the reader is as a spoiled girl who cares for nobody but herself. As the novel continues it’s shown that this isn’t exactly true‚ she has more passions in life. Gone With the Wind has a main theme of land possession and love for land as the book continues. As foreshadowed in Chapter 2‚ Gerald tells Scarlett that she doesn’t need love; land will be the only thing that
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her back straight? Have you seen that girl‚ fighting against the poverty and starvation with her heart hard and her promises kept? Have you seen that girl‚ goosing the public with her head up high and her eyes determined? That girl is named Scarlett O’Hara‚ the protagonist of Gone with the Wind‚ a dark-haired‚ green-eyed Georgia belle. She has all the charm a woman could ever dream‚ that no men would be able to resist. She has all the gallantry a fighter could ever possess that no battles in the
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upbraiding her white mistress‚ Scarlett; and indeed‚ she is yelling at Scarlett in her first scene. Mammy frequently derides other slaves on the plantation as "field hands"‚ implying that as a House Servant she is above the "less-refined" blacks. The character of Prissy played by Butterfly McQueen‚ is another black character in the film. Prissy is a dim-witted slave girl who gets slapped by Scarlett O’Hara when in Prissy’s most famous scene of the film she admits to Scarlett that she has lied to her
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is centered on a southern belle named Scarlett O’Hara. At the very beginning of the book Scarlett is a sixteen year old child that dreams only of a life of love and luxury. She is obsessed with a southern gentleman named Ashley Wilkes. He however‚ does not feel the depth of love he has for Scarlett is enough to break his engagement with his then fiancée‚ Melanie Hamilton. Ashley and Melanie are truly in love. Because of this Scarlett hates Melanie. There is another man who
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This film is set in Georgia the spring of 1861‚ and follows the life of a wealthy southern belle‚ Scarlett O’Hara. While the film focuses on the trial and tribulations of Scarlett’s love life‚ it also depicts life during the civil war‚ and after the civil war. Although the films depiction of southern life is somewhat reasonable‚ there are some historical inaccuracies. Because the movie is based in Scarlett O’Hara’s romances‚ the film romancitizes southern life and omits or twists details about the lives
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