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    Dear Prince of Denmark‚ Words cannot explain how miserable I am‚ due to all the despairing events that have been occurring in my life. You may believe that the loss of your father‚ King Hamlet‚ and your mother’s hasty marriage may be all of end all. All of those events in your life aren’t compatible with all the sorrow I’ve received from Daisy‚ Tom‚ and everyone who I’ve been associated with throughout my entire life. All of the people I thought were my friends‚ never attended my funeral. It

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    Compare and contrast the presentation on the destructive nature of love and desire in The Tempest‚ The Great Gatsby and Rapture. (Word count 3081) The complexities of love and desire are repeatedly illustrated in all three texts. Shakespeare‚ Fitzgerald and Duffy depict the destructive nature of love and desire through the themes of greed‚ selfishness and obsession. These are conveyed through metaphors‚ similes and personification. The most prominent technique used by all the writers to demonstrate

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    The Great Gatsby – Study Guide Chapter 1 1. Why is Nick Carraway made the narrator? The device of giving Nick the function of narrator lends psychic distance from the story. Nick is part of the action‚ yet he is not one of the principals. He shares some of the emotions and is in a position to interpret those of the others. However‚ the happens are not center on him. 2. What kind of relationship exists between Nick and the Buchanans? It is completely superficial. He speaks of them

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    Rick Fei Mr. Ireland English III 1/10/2013 Take home test 1. Gatsby is a great guy‚ Gatsby is deeply fall in love with Daisy‚ compare to Tom’s love his love is selfless that he can put away everything he has for Daisy. Tom has a mistress outside and never care Daisy’s feeling‚ Gatsby is rich man who can get everything he want but he still deeply love Daisy. “There is always a halt there of at least a minute‚ and it was because of this that I

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    mean to be great? In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author introduces a character known as the‚ “GreatGatsby‚ but is this character truly great? I think that the character‚ the Great Gatsby truly is great because of the following reasons. The Great Gatsby’s born name is James Gatz. He was born poor‚ in poverty in which he knew he didn’t belong. He always knew he was destined for greatness and power beyond anyone’s imagination. However‚ despite his great poverty stricken

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    The Great Gatsby After reading "The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and watching the film directed by Jack Clayton‚ I noticed a few plot‚ character‚ and theme changes. As I was watching the movie I began to ask myself why did Jack Clayton take this event out or why did he add in this particular event? Was it for the sake of time or the fact that it was not an important part in the book? So I began to write notes and started to compare the great novel to the film. The novel The Great

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    The main characters in both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and William Shakespeare’s Macbeth appear stable and successful on the outside‚ but inside they are engaged in a constant struggle with their dreams. Gatsby tries to win back the girl of his dreams by becoming something he’s not‚ a member of high society; while Macbeth believes the prediction of the witches that he will be king and spends his life trying to make it come true. Both characters are willing to risk everything in pursuit

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    great gatsby Character |Behavior |Consequences | | |Jay Gatsby | He had a overzealous need for| He lost daisy because of his eagerness for money | | |money and would sacrifice | | | |anything to get it | | |Daisy Buchanan | Never attached her self to

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby completes a decline from his carefully crafted image of greatness to his exposed‚ unsightly‚ and lonely death. The story of the novel is really the deconstruction of this image‚ and the various ways in which the true “Jay Gatz” is uncovered. Hailing from a middle-class‚ rural family‚ Gatsby… The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby - The Great Gatsby: Nick vs Gatsby Mainframe computers analyze information and present it so that the observer is able

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    prude. Classes divided because some people had inherited wealth and other had work hard to earn their money. In The Great Gatsby‚ a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ these controversies that divided the generations of the 1920s included prohibition‚ and the right to personal freedoms and compares and contrast new money versus old money and modernism versus traditionalism. In The Great Gatsby‚ there is social dividing line that separates the aristocracy and those who are "would be" aristocracy. That diving

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