Elizabeth Barret-Browning’s ’Sonnets from the Portuguese’ and F. Scott. Fitzgerald’s ’The Great Gatsby’ both reflect‚ in abstract style and varying contexts and elements‚ the experience of idealised love‚ hope and mortality. The elements employed by Barret-Browning and Fitzgerald‚ differ in their depictions of these themes through various literary devices‚ two of which are ’points of view’ and ’motifs/symbols’. Barret-Browning’s sonnet sequence illustrates a complex evolution of emotions as the poet
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The descriptions of individual characters and settings convey ethical and moral judgments of a society. In the Great Gatsby‚ the descriptions of the Eggs‚ the “valley of ashes”‚ Gatsby‚ and the Buchanans all convey the judgment that the upper class of the society are shallow‚ empty and hollow and therefore‚ lacking morals and ethics and because of this‚ that the American dream has failed as citizens have become obsessed with the material aspect of the American dream rather than the spiritual aspect
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real; suggesting that he is aware that most aspects of Gatsby’s life are a lie. Further examples of this are when Nick writes that ‘Jay Gatsby…sprang from a platonic conception of himself’‚ highlighting to the reader that Gatsby tried to make himself the ideal man and then attempted to make
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Daisy symbolizes Gatsby’s ideals‚ while the “green light” represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. Also Gatsby is in love with Daisy‚ and all he wants is Daisy to be with him so he can be happy. This novel also includes the American Dream. FItzgerald used a lot of symbolism‚ to represent the characters. To begin with‚ Daisy Buchanan is a beautiful woman but she is also very selfish. Also since Jay Gatsby is in love with her‚ she is a very important character. The relationship Gatsby and Daisy have is
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Jordan Baker reveals that Jay Gatsby fell in love with Daisy some years before. He’d like Nick to invite Daisy to tea so he can see her. Nick helps reunite the two former lovers. Now we’ve got the conflict of Tom’s violence‚ conflict with Daisy and Gatsby’s love‚ and some potential conflict between Nick and
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Isabel Sendra Mrs. Marullo English I 17 January 2011 The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the social rejection of the Prohibition in the 1920s. Prohibition‚ the ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol‚ made millionaires out of bootleggers like Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald was driven to write many novels because of his love for Zelda. Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by Fitzgerald‚ portrayed the lavish lifestyle of the rich in
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full aspect of the meaning is lost. White is the first color the Fitzgerald symbolizes through his writing. A strong contrast between light and dark shows whites in accordance with other colors (Schneider 1). The white represents the purity of Gatsby’s dream that mingles with darkness in the form of such people as Tom and Daisy. The Valley of the Ashes shows this contrast. In a world that is so grand‚ the American Dream is left to wallow in the true nature of humanity (Schneider 4). In the first
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F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts Jay Gatsby as hopeful who throughout the novel always pursues one individual‚ his lover Daisy from five years ago. The green light exemplifies Gatsby’s single goal and dream. Considering Gatsby has spent the last five years being a very successful bootlegger‚ to get Daisy to be his would be Gatsby’s American Dream and his token to his success. The American Dream for Daisy however consists of having a materialistic lifestyle and wealth. Fitzgerald uses the motif of the
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Gatsby’s wealth is represented when the narrator talks about some of his possessions and his famous parties: “On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus‚ bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight‚ while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains” (39). It is not particularly normal to own a “Rolls-Royce‚” which is solely a symbol of Gatsby’s wealth. The readers can believe that though
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Coming from a farm in North Dakota‚ Gatsby’s had not been taught by his parents much about proper dress or given much of an education. Gatsby had eventually gone to St. Olaf college‚ but had dropped out after two weeks in the institution. But once Gatsby had met Dan Cody and had gone on the
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