Morality of Jay Gatsby
Unravelling the realities of the Jazz age, the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald unveils the limitless measures taken by Jay Gatsby to rekindle the dormant love between him and the archetype 1920’s golden girl Daisy Buchanan. The romantic tragedy, The Great Gatsby, delves into the lavish customs of the Roaring Twenties, while strategically exposing the lack of sound ethics and moral development. Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory on Moral Development compartmentalizes Jay Gatsby, a bombastic personality, as the least ethical persona of this specific 1920’s setting which centers around East Egg, West Egg and the Valley of Ashes. Living the 1920’s American grandiloquent lifestyle of the wealthy, Jay Gatsby’s motives, behind life decisions, consist largely of an adamant determination to gain peer appreciation, to gain the utmost reward for devoting his life to her, and to gain her love by sacrificing his reputation for hers
Playing a crucial role in Gatsby’s rationale, Daisy Buchanan’s approval magnetizes Gatsby to …show more content…
Consequently, with his “romantic readiness”, Gatsby drives Daisy into engaging into an affair, which society stigmatizes as unethical and immoral. Moreover, the aspiration of achieving the golden girl’s love blinds Jay Gatsby from the consequences of his pursuit of a love affair; the “great” Gatsby’s tunnel vision centering around Daisy propels him into an aggressive state, which leads Jay to inconsiderately confess to Tom “She never loved you. do you hear?” (). These outcries play as verification to Gatsby’s inconsideration to impacts of his selfish acts to destroy a relationship and “repeat the past” (). The immutable aim to “repeat the past” contributes as a motivation for Jay to focus on the reward of love rather that taking the ethical position of accepting the inevitable reality of Daisy’s unreciprocated
Unravelling the realities of the Jazz age, the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald unveils the limitless measures taken by Jay Gatsby to rekindle the dormant love between him and the archetype 1920’s golden girl Daisy Buchanan. The romantic tragedy, The Great Gatsby, delves into the lavish customs of the Roaring Twenties, while strategically exposing the lack of sound ethics and moral development. Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory on Moral Development compartmentalizes Jay Gatsby, a bombastic personality, as the least ethical persona of this specific 1920’s setting which centers around East Egg, West Egg and the Valley of Ashes. Living the 1920’s American grandiloquent lifestyle of the wealthy, Jay Gatsby’s motives, behind life decisions, consist largely of an adamant determination to gain peer appreciation, to gain the utmost reward for devoting his life to her, and to gain her love by sacrificing his reputation for hers
Playing a crucial role in Gatsby’s rationale, Daisy Buchanan’s approval magnetizes Gatsby to …show more content…
Consequently, with his “romantic readiness”, Gatsby drives Daisy into engaging into an affair, which society stigmatizes as unethical and immoral. Moreover, the aspiration of achieving the golden girl’s love blinds Jay Gatsby from the consequences of his pursuit of a love affair; the “great” Gatsby’s tunnel vision centering around Daisy propels him into an aggressive state, which leads Jay to inconsiderately confess to Tom “She never loved you. do you hear?” (). These outcries play as verification to Gatsby’s inconsideration to impacts of his selfish acts to destroy a relationship and “repeat the past” (). The immutable aim to “repeat the past” contributes as a motivation for Jay to focus on the reward of love rather that taking the ethical position of accepting the inevitable reality of Daisy’s unreciprocated