Similarities Between Othello And The Great Gatsby

Othello and Gatsby are both driven to make themselves heroic Othello was a reputable general in Venice Italy. His war s stories were heroic which his wife Desdemona used to love hearing. It was hard for Othello to accomplish these extraordinary difficult goals, because the people of Venice did not accept him for he was black. Desdemona’s father Brabantio could not withstand the fact she secretly married to a black man, but Iago is a character that could not stand Othello’s standing at all. Gatsby on the other hand, is man who came from an impoverished childhood in North Dokata. His long term goal was to overcome poverty and become beyond wealthy. By the time he was thirty years old, he owned a customized Royce Royce and lived in a Mansion that everyone could see from hundreds of miles away. In the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and
Othello and Gatsby both start at the bottom of society and through their self-devotion they have heroically risen to the top. Gatsby’s heroic ambition of self-empowerment comes from his reinvention of his name from James Gatz to The Great Gatsby and his determination to be heroically elite. His epic downfall is due to the hatred for himself and the jealousy of others. For instance, James Gatz finalized realized that he could not accept being with farm people and, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end”(Fitzgerald 98). Fitzgerald demonstrates that Gatsby was man who driven to reinvent himself. He wanted to explore his dreams and go beyond his limits. Gatsby had the ambition to self-empowering himself by making his own choices and own