Tara plantation (through Scarlett O’Hara)

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Tara plantation is the iconic family estate of Scarlett O’Hara in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind," symbolizing the Old South’s grandeur and decline.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional estate
fictional location
plantation
adaptedIn Gone with the Wind
surface form: Gone with the Wind (1939 film)
appearsIn Gone with the Wind
novel Gone with the Wind
surface form: Gone with the Wind (novel)
associatedWithQuote “I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara.”
“Tara! Home. I’ll go home.”
closelyAssociatedWith Scarlett O'Hara
surface form: Scarlett O’Hara
countryInFiction United States of America
surface form: United States
createdBy Margaret Mitchell
culturalImpact icon of romanticized plantation myth
subject of criticism for idealizing slaveholding South
economicBasis cotton plantation
slave labor (in fiction)
genreContext Southern literature
historical romance
hasFictionalArchitectureStyle Southern plantation house
hasThemeConnection American Civil War
Reconstruction era
homeOf O’Hara family
Scarlett O'Hara
surface form: Scarlett O’Hara
influenced popular imagery of the Old South
inspiredBy plantations in Georgia
locatedInFictionalState Georgia
locatedInFictionalUniverse Southern United States
surface form: American South
narrativeRole anchor for Scarlett O’Hara’s identity
central setting in Gone with the Wind
ownedBy Ellen O'Hara
surface form: Ellen O’Hara

Gerald O'Hara
surface form: Gerald O’Hara

O’Hara family
representedBy film set in Gone with the Wind (1939 film)
symbolizes American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
surface form: Old South

Scarlett O’Hara’s attachment to land
Southern aristocracy
agrarian wealth
endurance
the decline of the Old South
timePeriodInFiction Civil War era
Reconstruction era
antebellum South
undergoes devastation during the Civil War (in fiction)
postwar hardship (in fiction)

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Rhett Butler associatedWith Tara plantation (through Scarlett O’Hara)