Essays on Margaret Mitchell

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 ...

Introduction

Downplaying and romanticizing of history Evident in works of fiction like "Gone With the Winds" Distortion of History History is sometimes distorted to serve certain goals and interests An example is the Turkish authorities' denial of the Armenian genocide This is an abuse of human rights to memory and dignity Critical History Critical history attempts to recast distorted history Including overlooked history like The Moors' is the main objective of critical history Foucault theorized the idea of critical history Conclusion It is important for people to understand history Critical history gives people the hope of saving both the present ...

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 ...

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 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 ...