Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has to a great extent explored the moral issues implicit in his 1920’s context. Fitzgerald explores the lack of religion, the corruption of the American dream, and the superficial values of his society in order to make his society reflect on their own illusory existence. In the 1920’s, it was a time of rebellion where people breaked away from society's boundaries and exploded with self-expression. Peoples' standard of living rose dramatically due to the economic prosperity and the era leaned toward the youthful glow of America. Fitzgerald in the novel uses a variety of literary techniques to show this.
F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has to a great extent explored the lack of religion prevalent in his society. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg on the billboard highlights lack of religion and is a symbol for God’s overlooking eyes emphasising the diction in the text "God sees everything," and, "You can’t fool God," by George Wilson, The colour imagery in ‘yellow spectacles’ denotes decay and immorality and thus reinforces the irony on how none of these people can see clearly due to the lack of spirituality in the society. The technique blasphomere is used in the speech ‘Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated’ by Daisy, and thus reinforces how religion is absent in the character’s lives as God’s name has been used in vain. The phrase ‘or any act of God’ spoken by Daisy is another example of this. The biblical reference in the phrase “She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." is moreover served as an excuse for Tom not marrying Myrtle and thus strongly indicates that religion is not evident in the character’s lives. Also, Gatsby’s worshipping of fake ideals reinforces the lack of religion and morality within the society. Intertextualism of the lyrical diction ‘I’m the Sheik of Araby…into your tent ill creep’ is inserted to emphasise Gatsby’s childish dreams of reclaiming Daisy. Gatsby worshipping false ideals
F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby has to a great extent explored the lack of religion prevalent in his society. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg on the billboard highlights lack of religion and is a symbol for God’s overlooking eyes emphasising the diction in the text "God sees everything," and, "You can’t fool God," by George Wilson, The colour imagery in ‘yellow spectacles’ denotes decay and immorality and thus reinforces the irony on how none of these people can see clearly due to the lack of spirituality in the society. The technique blasphomere is used in the speech ‘Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated’ by Daisy, and thus reinforces how religion is absent in the character’s lives as God’s name has been used in vain. The phrase ‘or any act of God’ spoken by Daisy is another example of this. The biblical reference in the phrase “She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." is moreover served as an excuse for Tom not marrying Myrtle and thus strongly indicates that religion is not evident in the character’s lives. Also, Gatsby’s worshipping of fake ideals reinforces the lack of religion and morality within the society. Intertextualism of the lyrical diction ‘I’m the Sheik of Araby…into your tent ill creep’ is inserted to emphasise Gatsby’s childish dreams of reclaiming Daisy. Gatsby worshipping false ideals