Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The perspectives of love and reason in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, ‘Sonnet’s from the Portuguese’ are shaped through their historical, social and personal context. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Barrett Browning accentuate the perceptions of reason through the transformative and obsessive love within the Victorian Era and the Post War Jazz Age.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry, ‘Sonnet’s from the Portuguese’ explores the spirituality and transformative nature of love within the religious and traditional society of the Victorian Era. Through Barrett Browning’s work, her heroic and feminine voice is established within the Petrarchan sonnet form which reveals her transformative

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