Essays on Gone With The Wind

I have always worshiped Margaret Mitchell and her masterpiece “Gone With the Wind” has been my favorite book for years. Therefore I have decided to visit Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta. On 11 June 2016 I with my best friend, who is also Margaret Mitchell’s fan, attended the house, where great writer wrote her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. We approached the museum in 12 a.m., bought tickets and started our tour with the first exhibition, Crescent Avenue apartment. In 1925, she settled in this house where the famous novel was written, together with her second husband. Their family occupied ...

Based on the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the production of a film with the same name is world-famous. With its release date falling in 1939, the movie starred Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland and went on to win multiple academy awards for its apparent ability to capture the Old South as it was before the coming of the American Civil War. Presently, the movie has become one of the classic romantic renditions of turbulent love affairs, with a particular emphasis on Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara, who, as they ...

The Gender and Race Inequality

Gender and race equality is a foundation stone of any democratic society and state that strive to social justice and respect for human rights. Historically women have been fighting for equality and its implementation. Guarantees to ensure equal opportunities for women in public life and in other areas at the legal level are recognized in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women [Un.org]. However, the world still faces overt and covert discrimination of the female half of the population. And this is an international problem. Despite the broad legal framework, many researchers note that ...

There are a number of differences between the eastern and western cultures. These differences have always existed in eastern and western cultures. The differences in both cultures are clearly visible in terms of lifestyle, thinking, dressing, eating and even expressing emotions and love to each other. There are also differences in the power of love between Eastern and Western Culture and the same has been reflected in various films and novels. This paper proposes a discussion on how eastern and western cultures have different power of love because of three main reasons: firstly, because family is considered as the ...

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Introduction The role of matrimonial relationships of individuals is very essential for the comprehensive development of the human community and its progression towards the future generations. Even though the concept of marriage maintains the cultural prominence and traditional values of the societies, conjugal bond between two individuals rely on the intimacy they hold with each other. Hence courtship is an integral part of married life, and when the chemistry between the partners starts fading away, they end the relationship by means of divorce or separation. Art and literature have immensely provided for the discussion of ...

Part 1 Movie cast, release and recognitions

Gone with the wind is one among the best-loved movies of Hollywood ever. It is a grand adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by famed film maker David O. Selznick. Hailed till date as the greatest romance movies of all time, Gone with the wind was released in 1939. For the movie premiere on December 15, 1939 in Atlanta, a holiday was declared by the state governor even as the tickets were sold at prices 40 times higher than that of the original price. David O. Selznick purchased the movie rights of the book ...

1. PERSEPOLIS (2007) & GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). *How does the theme of survival and having a female protagonist relate in these two films? In the film gone with the wind, Scarlet O’Hara, the daughter of Gerald O’Hara is the major character, and she carries most of the burden of the characters, who are related to her in one way or the other. Scarlet struggles with marriage throughout the film since she cannot find her ideal man. In the beginning, she is surrounded by many admirers. On the contrary, she is not interested in these men ...

How has the role that African Americans in films developed over time? Beginning with the 1939 period through the modern period, this essay will utilize past films to illustrate the African American actor and how the racism and roles have changed. In the end, this work will have considered past practice, modern policy and future potential for the African American in the film industry. A film heralded as a portrayal of Southern life, that portrayed the African American in a very racist regard, has been argued to be Gone with the Wind of 1939 (Filmslatemagazine.com 2). This cultural film celebrated ...

Gone With The Wind is a movie that was released in the year 1939, this movie has a novel version with the same name written by Margaret Mitchell that came prior the movie release. The story in this movie shadows the life of a rich man’s daughter (Scarlett O'Hara) who owns a plantation at Georgia, in essence the movie depicts or rather shows the struggles and sufferings the girl goes through in the antebellum and antibellum South. As the movie proceeds, the viewer sees Scarlett transform from an ordinary girl to an independent woman while experiencing the pre-war lifestyle of the south ...

Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping epic about the Civil War has been called many things since its publication. Admirers have classified Gone With the Wind as an elegy for a lost and noble civilization, others as nothing more than cheap melodrama. Ultimately, it stands as a remarkable literary achievement in American myth-making, an idealized saga about a way of life that relied on the enslavement and exploitation of human beings. As a Southern writer, Mitchell can hardly be classified among the likes of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Rather, Gone With the Wind exists in its own territory, partly by virtue of its ...

The movie talks about a young girl named Dorothy who is lostin the land of OZ. The girl had been swept by cyclones from her original home within Kansas. The only help the girl can acquire in returning back home is looking for a wizard. Dorothy lived with her uncle and auntie who did not give her enough attention. The lack of attention from the relatives made the girl wish to get to a land where she would find peace. The arrival of Dorothy in the land of OZ is marked with tragedy because of the killing of the witch of the ...

The 1939 film Gone with the Wind is often considered an American classic - its epic scope and sweeping romance granted the film ten Academy Awards, also being nominated for Best Original Score. Despite being a representation of a historical setting, the film itself seems to romanticize the South in a way that real history reveals it does not warrant; the privilege that Scarlett receives as a rich white woman, and the ways in which she uses it (and how she is ultimately undermined by a powerful, masculine man) are not given the criticism this topic may deserve. I think the film should have ...

It is a remarkable phenomenon of American society that a film can transcend its own medium and establish a cultural crossroads where new aesthetic, historical, technological and philosophical sensibilities may at once converge. As such, a movie can capture Zeigeist and reflect the tenor of its era at a magnitude unmatched by any other creative form. Such is the case with the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind, a grand historical fiction that managed to simultaneously tap into the country’s psyche and sense of its own historical past while altering the notion of what was morally acceptable for a film to portray. No other film ...

In 1939, the film “Gone with the Wind” was released and became one of the top-grossing films of all times. The producers did not only try their best to satisfy the white Southerners and the Black slaves, but challenged the public point of view on gender roles, which were relatively unchanged since the Civil War. This duality of intentions made the film both interesting and controversial in its nature. The rhetorical question in the article by Naomi Wolf “A generation on, do women feel free?” is of particular for this paper (Wolf 487). This question might be a mystery for ...

The 1939 film Gone with the Wind is often considered an American classic - its epic scope and sweeping romance granted the film ten Academy Awards, also being nominated for Best Original Score. The orchestral score, composed by Max Steiner, is big and complex, with a lot of subtlety to it as well. The story of independent, passionate Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and how she works her way through Civil War-era America, while being tamed by the handsome Rhett Butler, is made all the more memorable by the use of Max Steiner's original score, which incorporates traditional folk songs, minstrel ...

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What is the thesis of your paper? The movie Gettysburg did have elements of the Lost Cause myth but the movie did make progress in teaching about Civil War through the movie.

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HOOK: What is interesting about this thesis? ‘Hook’ your readers with an interesting fact or angle. The Lost Cause myth has been the basis of a lot of movies, and the Union soldiers and leaders aren’t respected at all in the Lost Cause myth.

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Find a minimum of 7 sources (3 must be actual books) that relate to your thesis. (DON’T FORGET TO CONSIDER VISUAL ...

The novel “Jubilee” (1966) written by Margaret Walker and the novel “Gone With The Wind” (1936) written by Margaret Mitchell, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming, both tell different stories of slavery, the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. However both these novels are not just stories of a historical period, but stories of two women: the indomitable Scarlett O’Hara (“Gone With The Wind”) and the black slave woman Vyry (“Jubilee”).

One of the main themes in both novels is the transformation of the southern society.

The Civil War resulted in numerous new ideals that established the separation between the Southern societies and the Union. The traditional and prim ...

As a nation, America is populated by immigrants and as such, its culture is a mixed bag – a melting pot, if you will, of ethnicities, cultures, ideas and beliefs. As a result, it is difficult to define any one traditionally American aspect of culture as it is bastardised from a whole variety of European, African and Asian influences. However, America can boast its culture as having been affected by these various different influences and as being shaped accordingly. One such major influence is that brought to the table by the African American community who have influenced American culture for decades through music, film, literature ...