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The Birth Of The Nation Essay

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The film “The Birth of the Nation 1915” consists of two parts. The first tells about the fate of two families, Cameron and Stonemen in the middle of the XIX century. They are friends, who visit each other and plan to become relatives. However, the war between the North and the South begins; Stonemen family is the supporter of the North and Cameron family belongs to the South. The North wins and the first part ends with the murder of Lincoln. The second part is devoted to the arbitrariness of blacks, terrorizing white population. Cameron becomes a head of the Ku Klux Klan organization, which scares black people and consists of the soldiers from the South. Stonemen are fighting against Silas Lynch, the head of the Afro-Americans, and when black seemed to have already won, the Ku Klux Klan came to their aid and smote the black people. There comes peace between the North and the South. Citizens of the state will henceforth seek compromises and try to stop …show more content…

The central heroes of the film-romance are representatives of two families with children, who fall in love with each other, but their union is hampered by the war that has begun.
Most of all I was amazed about how the Civil War in America is shown. Friends are on the opposite sides of the barricade. Some are fighting for the North, others for the South. But there is no antagonism between them. There are no “good and wise liberators” among the northerners, there are no “evil and corrupt scoundrels” among the southerners. Instead, it is the tragedy of a terrible fratricidal war. Friendship and love are tested by the tribulations of war. To my mind, if there is a need to highlight the main idea of the film, then it consists in the fact that aggression generates only a new

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