Despite texts being written in different eras, they can still reflect similar enduring values that can transcend their own contexts. These values are the subconscious ideals that influence the way all human beings behave and act. Such ideals are shaped by the sociocultural, economic and historical contexts. This idea is clearly seen through the comparison of the novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F Scott Fitzgerald and the Sonnets of the Portuguese, XIV and XXII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Regardless of the diverse contexts and perspectives of Browning and Fitzgerald, it is highly evident that their exploration of human nature 's value of love and hope are indeed shared between the texts.…
How many have ever encountered a time where we must decide whether or not to stay with a dearly loved one and end up poor; or instead accept an unhappy, but financially stable, marriage? This very issue is tackled in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. ☆A trope of many literary works is that an individual must choose between a financially volatile soul mate and an undesirable but stable spouse. In this case it’s Daisy’s struggle to choose between an exciting relationship with Gatsby and a stable marriage with Tom. ☆ Our star crossed lovers’ relationship being Daisy and Gatsby, and the unhappily married couple being Daisy and Tom.…
Love can take a person on an unforgettable and otherwise unattainable journey. Jay Gatsby, the love-stricken protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is pulled into this journey which brings back his past. Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s new neighbor and friend, narrates the situation he sees involving his married cousin, Daisy, who is caught between Gatsby and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom reveals to Nick the affair he is having with another married woman, Myrtle Wilson and relationships grow intense. With Nick’s assistance, Gatsby and Daisy reunite, followed by a rollercoaster of events, including murder and suicide.…
Love is a basic human ability and desire that can be easily be easily overridden in the midst of the lusting for wealth and social status. This disheartening concept is brought to life by Fitzgerald in his book The Great Gatsby. The narrator, Nick Carraway, goes to New York in the spring of 1922 in hopes of procuring his fortune has a bond man. He rents a small house in West Egg. His mysterious neighbor is known for his extravagant wild parties and is love with Nick’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan.…
In the hot and scorching summer of 1922, the impossible love story between Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby takes place. F. Scott Fitzgerald does a beautiful job of displaying the atrocious acts of the 20’s. The Great Gatsby captures it all from the sex, money, affairs, alcohol, and deaths. Through it all, Jay Gatsby was fighting for Daisy’s heart, though she was married to Tom Buchanan, it didn't seem to matter. Mr. Gatsby had a burning passion, fire and desire for Daisy.…
“Only fools fall in love” they say, yet so many people do. As beautiful and graceful love may seem, its ambiguity makes it a thin line between success, and failure. In both the Great Gatsby, and the Nightingale and the Rose, characters attempt to follow an ideal thought on what love is; in hopes to shape love in the way they want it to be. Since love cannot be restraint or conformed, characters setup their own demise, by trying to manipulate love as if it were a puppet. This produces a whirl wind of events that lead to failure, and in one case death.…
Money Doesn't Buy Everything In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes a story about a young man that has everything imaginable except one thing, true love. Gatsby is a wealthy young man with the imaginable, about thirty years of age living in West Egg. This man has fallen in love with a young lady named Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald writes about love’s fantasies and limits through the main character Jay Gatsby.…
In the case of Ethan Frome, the fictional protagonist highlighted in the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, life had never been able to live up to his expectations. Frome aspired to escape his dreary hometown of Starkfield, Massachusetts and distinguish himself in a big city as an engineer, but these dreams were put on hold when his mother fell ill and Frome was left to care for her. When Frome met Zeena, a fellow caregiver of his mother and his future wife, he saw that she could be the perfect tool to allow him to begin a new and exciting life. However, Zeena soon fell ill, and Frome fell out of love with her and into love, or rather infatuation, with the new caregiver, Mattie. Although Frome, like many individuals belonging to today’s society,…
Some heroes, such as Perseus, “live happily ever after” (Hamilton 206-207), like he did with Andromeda, but for others, love is the most difficult trial of all. Atalanta’s romance is tragic for her, as “She declare[s] that she would marry whoever could beat her in a foot race, knowing well that there was no such man alive” (Hamilton 249), at least without trickery. A clever man named Melanion challenges her to a race, but drops three irresistible golden apples along the course so she would be forced to stop and pick them up, allowing him to win the race and her hand, ending Atalanta’s “free days alone in the forest and her athletic victories” (Hamilton 251). Hercules’ love results in his death after his wife, Deianira, gives him what she thought was a love charm, but instead forces agony upon the hero, leading him to end his own…
True love. Does it cease to exist, or is it our imagination that blinds us in believing so? Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is drawn to one thing and one thing only, Daisy Buchanan. Every breath, every action taken is for her. Gatsby is struck senseless by the aspect of the past.…
I recently read the book Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. A summary of the book is two bestfriends that are trying to stay together. Ellen is jewish and Annemarie isn't. Annemarie and her family are trying to keep them together so the nazi officers don’t separate them. Keep reading to find out more...…
Gatsby’s hero journey Jay Gatsby from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a remarkable character in American literature. Gatsby refuses to accept his fate and creates his fortune with his determinism. Many also fantasize over Gatsby’s sincere love for his first lover, Daisy Buchanan. Some published reviews of Fitzgerald’s protagonist claim that Jay Gatsby is a “romantic hero”; my argument is that Jay Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy turns romanticism into a distortion.…
The distortion of love and its existence can be deceitful. This is seen in the idealization of love within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night. It is a significant theme portrayed throughout the novel and helps to showcase the faults in misconceiving this particular affection. The main characters, Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, and Rosemary Hoyt, each express this phenomenon with their intertwining relationships. They each seek their own quintessential version of happiness and hope to achieve this by seeking partners who exemplify these qualities.…
In Athens, traditions and the law overbear the idea of true love. Helena’s father did not allow her to be with Lysander in Athens because he preferred her to be with Demetrius. On the other hand, the forest is meant to represent love and the power of imagination. There, Helena and Lysander could express their love freely.…
I chose to do my novel project on The Fault In Our Stars. The major characters in this book are Hazel and Augustus. Hazel is a sixteen- year-old cancer patient who loves to read and is very shy but has a great sense of humor. Due to complications with her lungs she is forced to carry around an oxygen tank. Augustus is a seventeen-year-old cancer survivor who also likes to read but is very outgoing.…