Abstract
- Scarlett’s views on marriage are cynical, viewing it as a way to an finish moderately than a supply of happiness and love.
- Rhett values Scarlett’s power and dedication, however their fixed bickering and lack of help for one another damages their relationship.
- The characters in Gone With The Wind wrestle with loss, harship, and the altering occasions, however in the end, they’re resilient and able to development.
Whereas it may not be thought-about a blockbuster at present, Gone With The Wind was a part of 1939’s largest field workplace competitors, and its quotes are nonetheless as insightful, romantic, and witty as they had been over 80 years in the past. Primarily based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, it follows feisty Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Lee) earlier than, throughout, and after the Civil Battle shakes the foundations of the antebellum South. Whereas attempting to safe her future as her property, Tara, crumbles round her, she engages in a passionate love affair with the rakish Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).
Scarlett pines for the dashing and delicate Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), however he loves the pure-hearted Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), and whereas Rhett is not the person of her goals, his pragmatism helps the Southern belle via struggle, famine, and poverty. Regardless of shedding her sense of identification because the aristocratic and sheltered world she’s recognized crumbles round her, Scarlett rises from the ashes a modified lady. Sadly, it is too late to restore her relationship with Rhett, who has come to see her as spoiled and spiteful.
30 “Marriage, Enjoyable? Fiddle-Dee-Dee. Enjoyable For Males You Imply.”
Scarlett makes her emotions about dedication and marriage recognized early in Gone With The Wind when Rhett presses her on the topic. She treats it as a joke, however her humor belies her wrestle to just accept that whereas he could courtroom her, Ashley does not view her as marriage materials. She views marriage as a way to an finish when her hope for real love dies.
29 “No matter Occurs, I am going to Love You Simply As I Do Now Till I Die.”
This quote by Melanie Hamilton is an instance of unfettered affection between her and Ashley. The place Rhett and Scarlett’s romance is tempestuous and passionate, Melanie and Ashley’s is fixed and enduring. Her capability to be sincere is without doubt one of the explanation why Ashley marries her moderately than Scarlett, whose tendency to view love as transactional prevents her from discovering it.
28 “And, You, Miss, Are No Woman.”
Rhett Butler snaps this reply after Scarlett declares, “Sir, you’re no gentleman.” Rhett would favor that Scarlett drop the pretenses she hides behind so as to be thought-about extra ladylike, however she clings to society’s edifice so as to be popular with others. Rhett finds her finest qualities emerge when she’s authentically herself, moderately than a female archetype.
27 “I’ve By no means Heard Of Such Dangerous Style.”
That is Scarlett’s response to Rhett Butler’s proposal of marriage. Rhett by no means matches into Scarlett’s rigorously constructed expectations, however that does not cease him from attempting to win her coronary heart. Actually, the trouble emboldens him, till after years of attempting to show himself, the trouble wears him out.
26 “I Appear To Be Spoiling Everyone’s Brandy, And Cigars, And Goals Of Victory.”
When Rhett discusses the approaching Civil Battle with Ashley Wilkes and Melanie’s brother (Scarlett’s future husband), they imagine he is talking treason when he appropriately deduces that the North is healthier geared up. They belittle his character, however Rhett is characteristically unphased. He mentions this quote, which reduces their outrage to nothing greater than petty bickering.
25 “It Like To Flip My Blood Chilly, The Issues They Say To One One other.”
Mammy is a problematic character so far as illustration goes in Gone With the Wind. That being stated, she’s all the time candid about what is going on on round her, and she or he states what the viewers is pondering. She acknowledges that although Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara share an awesome love, in addition they reduce one another down excess of they construct one another up, which is extremely unhealthy.
24 “If You Do not Care What Of us Say About This Household, I Does!”
Mammy’s position in Gone With The Wind is vital to maintain the occasions of the primary characters in perspective. She all the time reminds Scarlett about what’s a very powerful to deal with, together with maintaining appearances it doesn’t matter what state her life is in. As this quote proves, she takes pleasure in her family and the household she helps, even when she usually operates thanklessly unseen.
23 “Hardships Make Or Break Folks.”
Ever the realist, Rhett Butler understands that transformation and development come from tackling troublesome issues. After almost shedding her house and her dignity, Scarlett O’Hara proves that she will not break. Sadly, Ashley’s determination to marry Melanie Hamilton after courting her is the inciting incident in Scarlett’s life that makes her continuously validate herself via males’s eyes as an alternative of her personal.
22 “If I Mentioned I Was Madly In Love With You, I’d Be Mendacity And What’s Extra, You’d Know It.”
Scarlett declares this to Rhett Butler when he questions her emotions for him. The place he is in a position to be effusive about his feelings, she will not dignify his affections with a response apart from being coy. Sadly, her reservations solely make her extra of a problem for somebody like Rhett, who finds profitable her love as his highest precedence.
21 “You are Like The Thief Who Is not The Least Bit Sorry He Stole, However Is Terribly Sorry He is Going To Jail.”
Rhett makes this statement of Scarlett primarily based on her lack of ability to ever admit her half in any coercion. Whether or not it is attempting to stay her nostril into different folks’s skilled or private enterprise, she all the time begs forgiveness moderately than asking permission. Rhett finds the standard amusing at first, however this aware refusal to see Scarlett’s true character will result in plenty of ache for him.
20 “Tomorrow, I’ll Assume Of Some Method To Get Him Again.”
Scarlett O’Hara is perhaps certainly one of literature’s most vivid characters for her intrepid fortitude within the face of adversity, nevertheless it’s rooted in her perpetual optimism. Sadly, this optimism comes from a certain quantity of delusion and denial. Each new day brings a brand new alternative, even when it means attempting to get her erstwhile lover again.
19 “I am Very Drunk And I Intend On Getting Nonetheless Drunker Earlier than The Night’s Over.”
Rhett Butler is taken into account certainly one of literature’s most rakish heroes, and as performed by Clark Gable in Gone With The Wind, really comes throughout as a Nineteenth-century Han Solo combined with a little bit James Bond. This line completely exemplifies his cheeky humorousness in addition to his penchant for imbibing. His Bohemian habits is in sharp distinction to Scarlett’s must be in management on a regular basis.
18 “I’d Minimize Up My Coronary heart For You To Put on If You Wished It.”
Rhett is so determined for Scarlett’s love that he’ll say and do something to get it. In the identical manner she thinks Ashley’s love with make her higher, so Rhett believes that incomes Scarlett’s love will change his private price as nicely. Making an attempt to get happiness from exterior validation solely locations them extra at odds with one another.
17 “I Need The Previous Days Again Once more And They’ll By no means Come Again.”
After the struggle, Ashley Wilkes struggles to work the land at Scarlett’s property, Tara. He pines for the times when life was less complicated, earlier than households had been break up aside, and loss of life and illness hadn’t ravaged the South. Sadly, his light sensitivity is examined by the realities of his scenario, and the truth that he has to rely on Scarlett to supply for his household.
16 “I Am Haunted By The Reminiscence Of Them And Of The World Falling About My Ears.”
Ashley represents a lack of innocence for the South, and along with his sophomoric phrases about its previous, showcases the truth that its future will not embrace cotillions and sipping positive wine whereas indentured folks of shade work the cotton fields. Issues weren’t laborious for Ashley and the folks in his class, and now he should face the brunt candor of hopelessness and humiliation.
15 “Pricey Scarlett! You Aren’t Helpless. Anybody As Egocentric And Decided As You Are Is By no means Helpless.”
Certainly one of Rhett’s virtues all through Gone With The Wind is his unwavering perception in Scarlett’s spirit and her capability to persevere when she places her thoughts to one thing. Whereas her ends do not all the time justify the means, Rhett does not purchase any time she feigns helplessness. He values her power and dedication, however the way in which she disregards others’ emotions to get what she needs makes her an advanced heroine.
14 “Actually, Scarlett, I Can’t Go All My Life Ready To Catch You Between Husbands.”
In Gone With The Wind, Scarlett has been married twice, to Melanie’s brother Charles and to her sister Suellen’s husband Frank, by the point Rhett will get his likelihood to suggest. This crack at her marriage file highlights the his character’s appeal and wit. It is debatable whether or not Scarlett ever married out of affection or safety.
13 “Life’s Below No Obligation To Give Us What We Count on.”
Ashley Wilkes was usually the voice of cause in Scarlett’s life, in a position to reduce via her vapidity with this form of preponderance. This line is especially prescient when Ashley returns from the struggle after being captured and positioned in a jail camp. His life, like the remainder of the characters in Gone With The Wind does not prove like he’d hoped.
12 “You Ought to Have Instructed Me Years In the past That You Cherished Me.”
Scarlett confronts Ashley about his emotions for her, as evidenced by this gutsy quote. She needed to settle for that he married Melanie as an alternative of her, and whether or not he made it out of responsibility or out of affection, he continued to string Scarlett alongside. Ashley by no means had the heart to inform Scarlett that he liked her to her face, if he ever actually did.
11 “Loss of life, Taxes And Childbirth! There’s By no means Any Handy Time For Any Of Them.”
For many of Gone With The Wind, Scarlett does not must encounter life’s harsh truths. The flippancy of this line proves that she does not worth severe occasions like loss of life, taxes, or childbirth, issues that can almost break her later. Scarlett makes use of humor to deflect the truth that she’s secretly terrified.