Wednesday 6 May 2015

Gone With The Wind by Margret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind by Margret Mitchell was written over 60 years ago  in 1936, and was written through the eyes of the slaveholder at the break of the American Civil War, it was based around Scarlet O'Hara who after certain events found herself a survivalist. Mitchell writes O’Hara as a woman who makes chooses and decisions to keep her home running and to keep the man she secretly loves and his family safe, however she marries three men, one being the beau Captain Rhett Butler who is the only man who sees her for what she really is and the cloak she hides behinds. Mitchell depicts the way society worked at the time of the war and the reconstruction brilliantly and shows that the line between true love and love lust is a thin one and that telling the difference at the wrong moment can be the worst mistake one can make. By the end after the anger, love and sadness you feel more for Scarlett and even more for Rhett but as it goes, tomorrow is another day