Rhetorical Analysis Of The Great Gatsby
The film, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, offers an exceptionally unique insight into a consumer culture driven society. It showcases a world where having everything imaginable is still not nearly enough to fill the void of every growing desires. The principle theme of comparing exceptional extravagance to poverty is explored throughout the film. Furthermore, the film implicates that having things offers no sense of fulfillment, rather only exponentially exasperates the need to buy and consume more things. Fitzgerald, also attempts to shed light on the social structure in America at that time, especially how it relates to gender and racial and economic inequality.
All these factors play a crucial role in creating the luscious background for the story, however the story of the Great Gatsby is essential a love story, with love at the center of the whole story. With themes of loyalty, reputation, friendship and secrecy playing key underlining roles. Both the director Baz Luhrmann and the author F. Scott Fitzgerald have spectacularly …show more content…
This created unprecedented levels of prosperity in metropolitan America, which directly affected social life. “The tempo of the city had changed sharply. The buildings were higher. The parties were bigger. The morals were looser and the liquor was cheaper.” (Fitzgerald) Additionally the Prohibition as set forth by the 18th amendment, which were essentially supposed to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, backfired and led to creating of a large underground network. This nova rich underground network along with economic prosperity lead to a culture of extravagance with sprawling private parties and strong political connections that overlooked everything. In this glamorous underbelly of New
The film, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, offers an exceptionally unique insight into a consumer culture driven society. It showcases a world where having everything imaginable is still not nearly enough to fill the void of every growing desires. The principle theme of comparing exceptional extravagance to poverty is explored throughout the film. Furthermore, the film implicates that having things offers no sense of fulfillment, rather only exponentially exasperates the need to buy and consume more things. Fitzgerald, also attempts to shed light on the social structure in America at that time, especially how it relates to gender and racial and economic inequality.
All these factors play a crucial role in creating the luscious background for the story, however the story of the Great Gatsby is essential a love story, with love at the center of the whole story. With themes of loyalty, reputation, friendship and secrecy playing key underlining roles. Both the director Baz Luhrmann and the author F. Scott Fitzgerald have spectacularly …show more content…
This created unprecedented levels of prosperity in metropolitan America, which directly affected social life. “The tempo of the city had changed sharply. The buildings were higher. The parties were bigger. The morals were looser and the liquor was cheaper.” (Fitzgerald) Additionally the Prohibition as set forth by the 18th amendment, which were essentially supposed to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, backfired and led to creating of a large underground network. This nova rich underground network along with economic prosperity lead to a culture of extravagance with sprawling private parties and strong political connections that overlooked everything. In this glamorous underbelly of New