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    The Good Behind Gatsby

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    Jay Gatsby – The Gilded Man In an era made infamous for its displays of corruption and carelessness‚ the Upper Class of the 1920’s faced a degradation of character due in part both to their grand accumulations of wealth‚ and the materialism that had become associated with their prosperity and the life of excess. Within the pages of The Great Gatsby‚ a novel written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the oppressive powers of wealth are demonstrated through the corruption of many of the characters of

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    their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get what they want

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    American Dream The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ portrays a society of high social standings‚ immense wealth‚ and love. This can be classified as the American Dream. If an individual is determined‚ that individual has a reasonable chance and holds the hope for acquiring wealth‚ and the happiness and freedoms that go with it. In essence‚ the American Dream gives the chance to gain personal fulfillment‚ materially and spiritually. In The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts

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    through the setting‚ the characters words or actions‚ or a symbol. It usually implies a warning of something negative or even disastrous about to happen through clues interwoven into descriptive passages or the story line itself. In the Great Gatsby it occurs quite frequently in the novel to indicate what may happen. Fitzgerald uses colour‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ dialogue and pathetic fallacy to foreshadow Gatsbys fate. So today I am going to talk about the foreshadowing of Gatsbys fate (so his affair with

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    Great Gatsby Response

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    quote from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald completely encompases the entirety of the novel of which it concludes. The meaning behind it serves its purpose as a message for the Modernist novel’s audience as well as a lesson for the intricate characters trapped in their pasts. The quote ends the novel saying that people want to reclaim an idealistic past‚ or a pure moment or memory‚ but when this desire for the past turns into an obsession‚ it leads to destruction. Gatsby believes throughout

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    Written Task 2! IB English! Robby Burns! ! Outline! ! I have chosen to answer the prescribed question‚ “How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?”. The text that will be analyzed is The Great Gatsby and the part of the course that will be dealt with is literature and critical study. The task will focus on a few main themes of the book‚ mainly‚ the hollowness of the upper class. The social group that will be analyzed is the upper class but more specifically‚ the newly

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    The Great Gatsby

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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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    to achieve true love. One of the most iconic prices of literature displaying this is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The main protagonist of the book‚ Jay Gatsby is an iconic character for his bad relationships and involvements with different people. Such relationships include Gatsby and Tom‚ Gatsby and Nick and Gatsby and Mr Wolfshiem. Most notable

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    The Great Gatsby Analys

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis In this essay I will analyze how Nick Carraway is too deeply involved in events and relationships to be a reliable narrator. I intend to show how far and in what ways I agree with this view of “The Great Gatsby” . The story’s based on the main character Nick Carraway’s perspective. In the first chapter F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the reader that Nick goes to West Egg to visit his beloved cousin Daisy Buchannan‚ her husband Tom and their little baby Pammy. Through Nick

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    The Great Gatsby as a Satire Satire is an implement used by authors to point out a flaw of society or group of people in general. There are different levels of satire that the author can use. For example‚ the author may employ a type a formal satire known as Juvenalian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with anger and contempt for it in a bitter fashion. There is also the contrasting form of Juvenalian satire called Horatian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with

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