New Historicism In The Great Gatsby
Sakti Aditama
English 201
August, 4 2014
Sister Lesuma
Jay Gatsby and His American Dream
The Great Gatsby novel is one of the famous books in the US. This book also have been made into the movie and became one of the greatest movies in 2013. But, this response paper will talk about the critical lens in the new historicism view from this novel. According to Merriam Webster online dictionary, new historicism is a method of literary criticism that emphasizes the historicity of a text by relating it to the configurations of powers, societies, events, or ideologies in a given time. The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story tells the reader of the American dream’s life after the first world war by showing the life of …show more content…
His choice also accompanied by government regulation about the prohibition of alcohol. Prohibition of alcohol in the United States started in 1920 by the constitutional to ban the production, consumption, sale, and import alcohol within the United States and export to another country. The ban of the alcohol inferred by the number of people who consume the alcohol that exceed the limit and caused the death. There are many people who intended to support the government policies to ban the alcohol, but there are more people who want the regulation is eliminated. But, there were people who act of getting the alcohol illegally in the novel, they called as a bootlegger. There is an example in the book that considering the reader how the people in the story drink the alcohol at the party, “in the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another” (Fitzgerald 32). The alcohol prohibition in the United States in the novel The Great Gatsby is directly referred in the novel, but the more luxurious and extravagant parties that Gatsby held almost always had alcohol and the party with alcohol were always attended by many people, from high class people to the lower class people. Much like the American society at the time, even though the alcohol was prohibited by the government to consume by the people, alcohol was freely drunk in the
English 201
August, 4 2014
Sister Lesuma
Jay Gatsby and His American Dream
The Great Gatsby novel is one of the famous books in the US. This book also have been made into the movie and became one of the greatest movies in 2013. But, this response paper will talk about the critical lens in the new historicism view from this novel. According to Merriam Webster online dictionary, new historicism is a method of literary criticism that emphasizes the historicity of a text by relating it to the configurations of powers, societies, events, or ideologies in a given time. The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story tells the reader of the American dream’s life after the first world war by showing the life of …show more content…
His choice also accompanied by government regulation about the prohibition of alcohol. Prohibition of alcohol in the United States started in 1920 by the constitutional to ban the production, consumption, sale, and import alcohol within the United States and export to another country. The ban of the alcohol inferred by the number of people who consume the alcohol that exceed the limit and caused the death. There are many people who intended to support the government policies to ban the alcohol, but there are more people who want the regulation is eliminated. But, there were people who act of getting the alcohol illegally in the novel, they called as a bootlegger. There is an example in the book that considering the reader how the people in the story drink the alcohol at the party, “in the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another” (Fitzgerald 32). The alcohol prohibition in the United States in the novel The Great Gatsby is directly referred in the novel, but the more luxurious and extravagant parties that Gatsby held almost always had alcohol and the party with alcohol were always attended by many people, from high class people to the lower class people. Much like the American society at the time, even though the alcohol was prohibited by the government to consume by the people, alcohol was freely drunk in the