Gone with the Wind... (2)
to read is like to meditate... it brings profound insight.
'Gone With the Wind' brought out in me a person who is understanding, someone who felt the hardships of Ms. Scarlett. seeing her make her way through the pre-war times, surviving the war and struggling in the post war world helps one understand her. her marriages, each of the three, are a journey in their own rights. each reveal an important facet of her persona.
many a readers have idealized Ms. O'Hara and her struggles. i'd certainly add myself among those. i do feel inspired by Scarlett's instincts and practicality and her obstinate desire to live according her own ways. however, in my own opinion may be Scarlett is over-rated. (omg! blasphemous statement!)
the other principals and secondary characters are also just as important.. each of them aid in fleshing out Scarlett's character and also explain the themes of the novel (love, war, survival, post-war, slavery). Rhett Butler, Melanie Wilkes, Ashley, Mammy, Ellen and Gerald O'Hara, aunt Pitty, Frank Kennedy, Belle Watling, Uncle Peter, India Wilkies, Charles Hamilton, Big Sam, Brent and Stuart Tarleton, Will Benteen, Suellen, Careen and others. the children of the principals are also instrumental. Melanie and Ashley's son Beau, Scarlett and Charles's son Wade, Scar and Frank's lil girl Ella and Rhett and Scar's Bonnie - each child has a substantial role to play. Like her parents, Bonnie Blue Butler plays an important role.
Scarlett is the soul of the novel, yet as a reader her character often made me wonder if she was way too much of a misfit or was she just a hedonist who failed to realize the importance of her present while pondering about the future and the past. one may let go of the previous husbands. she married Charles in rage/envy, and Frank out of necessity of money. but her blind and obsessive infatuation with Ashley Wilkies and her confusion between liking and love results in the fading away of Rhett's love for her. Rhett was only man to love her what she was, a 'rascal' to quote him.
Ellen and Melanie were her anchors, her towers of strength, and she loses both. after the demise of the each of the 'great ladies', Scar learns of her love for Tara, the plantation and Rhett her husband and her only love.
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to read is like to meditate... it brings profound insight.
'Gone With the Wind' brought out in me a person who is understanding, someone who felt the hardships of Ms. Scarlett. seeing her make her way through the pre-war times, surviving the war and struggling in the post war world helps one understand her. her marriages, each of the three, are a journey in their own rights. each reveal an important facet of her persona.
many a readers have idealized Ms. O'Hara and her struggles. i'd certainly add myself among those. i do feel inspired by Scarlett's instincts and practicality and her obstinate desire to live according her own ways. however, in my own opinion may be Scarlett is over-rated. (omg! blasphemous statement!)
the other principals and secondary characters are also just as important.. each of them aid in fleshing out Scarlett's character and also explain the themes of the novel (love, war, survival, post-war, slavery). Rhett Butler, Melanie Wilkes, Ashley, Mammy, Ellen and Gerald O'Hara, aunt Pitty, Frank Kennedy, Belle Watling, Uncle Peter, India Wilkies, Charles Hamilton, Big Sam, Brent and Stuart Tarleton, Will Benteen, Suellen, Careen and others. the children of the principals are also instrumental. Melanie and Ashley's son Beau, Scarlett and Charles's son Wade, Scar and Frank's lil girl Ella and Rhett and Scar's Bonnie - each child has a substantial role to play. Like her parents, Bonnie Blue Butler plays an important role.
Scarlett is the soul of the novel, yet as a reader her character often made me wonder if she was way too much of a misfit or was she just a hedonist who failed to realize the importance of her present while pondering about the future and the past. one may let go of the previous husbands. she married Charles in rage/envy, and Frank out of necessity of money. but her blind and obsessive infatuation with Ashley Wilkies and her confusion between liking and love results in the fading away of Rhett's love for her. Rhett was only man to love her what she was, a 'rascal' to quote him.
Ellen and Melanie were her anchors, her towers of strength, and she loses both. after the demise of the each of the 'great ladies', Scar learns of her love for Tara, the plantation and Rhett her husband and her only love.
Cont...
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