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Twilight of the Old South

Scarlett O'Hara is the anti-heroine of Gone with the Wind, a character who breaks the conventions of a romance novel from the first line of the book "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it." A spoiled, high-tempered, and strong-willed sixteen-year-old Southern belle, Scarlett is the eldest of three O'Hara daughters who live an idyllic life on a North Georgian plantation called Tara. In the opening scenes, the O'Haras prepare to entertain their neighbors with a barbecue, and Scarlett plots to capture the man she loves-Ashley Wilkes-from her friend, Melanie. However, Ashley rejects her, and Scarlett's nemesis, Rhett Butler, overhears her humiliation. Rhett, a wealthy outcast from high society who "looks like one of the Borgias," is both amused by and interested in Scarlett.

The Civil War

News of the war reaches Tara, and Scarlett's life and the lives of everyone around her are immediately and irrevocably altered. Frustrated... View more of the Gone with the Wind Summary

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Gone with the Wind

2,015 words, approx. 7 pages

Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind, the epic Civil War-era novel and film, described as "the romance of a baggage and a bounder," has no peer in literary history when its longevity an... Read more

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 1936

8,978 words, approx. 30 pages

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 1936 Introduction Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind is an epic tale of the American Civil War. It is the story of Scarlett O'Hara... Read more

Gone with the Wind

4,042 words, approx. 14 pages

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Born in 1900, Margaret Mitchell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. More than thirty years before her birth, Atlanta had been burned to the ground by the Union army... Read more

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Margaret Mitchell

2,634 words, approx. 9 pages

Biography EssayMargaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived her entire life. The daughter of Eugene Mitchell, an attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society, ... Read more

Margaret Mitchell

971 words, approx. 4 pages

Author of Gone With the Wind, the most popular novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) was born on November 8 in Atlanta, Georgia, the burning of which became a spectacular scene in the imme... Read more

Margaret Mitchell

5,862 words, approx. 20 pages

You do not have to have read Margaret Mitchell's Civil War epic Gone With the Wind (all 1,037 pages of it) to know of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. You do not even have to have seen Gone With the ... Read more

Margaret (Munnerlyn) Mitchell

1,541 words, approx. 6 pages

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was to live her entire life. The daughter of Eugene Mitchell, an attorney and president of the Atlanta Historical Society, she grew ... Read more

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The Theme of Nationalism in "Pan Tadeusz" and "Gone with the Wind"

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Nationalism is defined as "loyalty and devotion to a nation; a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interes... Read more

A Continuation to "Gone with the Wind"

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With Rhett on his way to Charleston to spend time with his mother, Scarlett drags herself through the doors of Tara. "Suellen, Careen...I'm home." "Prissy go on and make my bed up, I need to rest" "Po... Read more

Gone with the Wind

1,121 words, approx. 4 pages

Gone With the Wind was an epic story that examined the adversity and predicaments during 19th century after the Civil War had taken place. Margaret Mitchell put characters in intense situations in ord... Read more

Feminism in Gone With the Wind

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In times of war, we find that all though out the history of America, there is some sense of a change. This holds true to time when the Civil War that was being fought in 1861, when the South was again... Read more

"Gone with the Wind" Should not be Banned

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Gone With the Wind The Middle Ages is also known as Dark Ages. It is so called because of restrictions placed on the freedom of thought and with aberrations punished as `heresy', and ideas away from... Read more

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