The profession and art of love is a timeless study yet differs significantly according to time and textual features employed. Composers select their particular form to best express their ideas on significant issues such as love and emotion, which must be inherently influenced by their own context. The ‘Sonnets of the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barret Browning (EBB) were initially private, personal reflections and a poetic documentation of her courtship with Robert Browning during the Victorian period. ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a longer text where the characters are strongly developed and falsely striving to live and accomplish the American Dream. Love is deliberately portrayed by each composer to reflect their varying contexts, opinions and forms.
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The textual form of the novel allows for the love between the characters to be developed. In the novel there is no respect, value and personal connections in the marital relationships between Daisy and Tom, and Myrtle and George. This parallels Fitzgerald’s relationship with his wife, Zelda, a contextual concept. Daisy is so absorbed with her love and affection for Gatsby that she does not notice Tom’s reactions and feelings, “[Daisy] had told him that she loved [Gatsby], and Tom Buchanan saw.” Tom is desperate to introduce Myrtle to Nick, to publicise his relationship with her. He states in front of Gatsby, Jordan, Nick and Daisy, “Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” The form allows the reader to identify that the marriages consist of adultery, deception and dissatisfaction through the character development. These conjugal relationships reflect the 1920s American context where values and morals were disregarded, unlike in EBB where she expresses meaningful values, reflecting her respect towards Robert, coinciding with her
The desire for …show more content…
The textual form of the novel allows for the love between the characters to be developed. In the novel there is no respect, value and personal connections in the marital relationships between Daisy and Tom, and Myrtle and George. This parallels Fitzgerald’s relationship with his wife, Zelda, a contextual concept. Daisy is so absorbed with her love and affection for Gatsby that she does not notice Tom’s reactions and feelings, “[Daisy] had told him that she loved [Gatsby], and Tom Buchanan saw.” Tom is desperate to introduce Myrtle to Nick, to publicise his relationship with her. He states in front of Gatsby, Jordan, Nick and Daisy, “Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.” The form allows the reader to identify that the marriages consist of adultery, deception and dissatisfaction through the character development. These conjugal relationships reflect the 1920s American context where values and morals were disregarded, unlike in EBB where she expresses meaningful values, reflecting her respect towards Robert, coinciding with her