Gone With The Wind
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The Gone With The Wind women demonstrate not only historical accuracy when it comes to the Civil War period in history, but they also illustrate the roles that women played in society before and after the conflict. Ellen O’Hara (nee Robillard) of Savannah and Northern Georgia completely typifies the traditional role of women before the war. She is the epitome of the genteel, kindly, white matriarch of plantation lore. She is selfless in her charity to others to the point where Mammy criticizes her for helping “poor white trash” when she should be taking care of herself. She abruptly married Gerald O’Hara, even though her parents disapproved of his lack of “family name”, but that is as rebellious as she gets. Once married to Gerald, even though she is abruptly transplanted to the coarser, more extreme culture of Northern Georgia, she is loving towards and loved by one an all, “She became the best-loved neighbor in the County. She was a thrifty and kind mistress, a good mother and a devoted wife. The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to the service of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah” (Mitchell 52). This shows the typical concerns of women of the period-home, family, and neighbors. Even though the acrid odor of slavery allowed this genteel existence, such an existence was typical for white plantation matriarchs. As Elizabeth Cady
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llstone of tyranny and lust” (Unger 192).
Where the Gone With The Wind portrayal of soldier’s conditions and attitudes is concerned, the portrayal is historically quite accurate. We see many instances of the ragged, war-torn, under-equipped Confederate troops throughout the novel. As Scarlett relates while watching the bottom-of-the-barrel recruits pass in front of her, “Many of the men were totally unarmed, for the Confederacy had neither rifles nor ammunition to issue to them. These men hoped to equip themselves from killed and captured Yankees. Johnson had lost around ten thousand men in his retreat. He needed ten thousand more fresh troops, and this, thought Scarlett frightened, is what he is getting!” Of course, as Rhett warns early on the novel, the South will lose because the North is better equipped and will blockade crucial supply trading ports. This is why the South hoped Great Britain would intervene on its behalf, “The more violent are quite ready to meet all the world in arms, and they solace themselves too with the thought that Great Britain would be presented to the world as the patron and protector of slavery is she raised the blockade to Southern ports” (Beckett 42). To her historical credit, Great Br
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