Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

The individuals we surround ourselves with in our life often have an influential sway on our behaviour and motivations. Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is no exception to the impact others have on our lives, however the people in Willy’s life do not influence him positively, but rather act as people for him to blame despite his faults being only his own. The people in his life, the secondary characters to his tragedy, all work to provide better depth and perception of Willy…

Since the 1970s, the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on Britain's cultural identity and its current influence on the country is one of the most beloved topic for contemporary British authors. Zadie Smith is not an exception. In White Teeth, we discover the lives of diverse characters, all sharing this non-Britishness in a cosmopolitan London. From the very beginning, this novel deals with multiculturalism. However, one can wonder if White Teeth is more a novel about multicultural…

The book “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is a great book to analyze. The narrator of the book is the main character whose name is Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy, his brothers, and their close friends are greasers and their enemies are the socs. They are divided by their socioeconomic status. Ponyboy is a 14-year old boy whose life has been turned upside-down after the death of his parents and having to live with his oldest brother, Darry, who is 20 years old. His life turned even worse when he ran away…

Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tom Ripley is the main character and this story revolves around his adventure. Analyzing the story, Ripley imitates somebody to change his own personality to avoid his shameful and unwanted past so that he does not return. This is an attempt to steal a new personality, where he is more successful and affluent, such as his friend Dickie Greenleaf. Ripley feels the need to mimic people because he has the need to escape from his actual life and identify…

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writing authors will use symbolism so they can convey different aspects to the reader. Symbolic elements in writing could be anything from an object, a color, or even a person. In the short story “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich, there is a great deal of symbolism. The story is about two brothers of Native American descent who live on a reserve in North Dakota. The two brothers buy a Red Oldsmobile with the money they earned from their jobs and go on many adventures together in the car.…

Trump’s cabinet appeared, the old novels about dystopia begun to best sellers. The most famous work is Jonathan Sift’s “Gulliver’s Travels.” I wondered what the author criticizes in each country. According to S. N. Gillani, Gulliver’s Travels is a great work of social satire. There is a satire on politics, human physiognomy, which is the assessment of character or personality from a person's appearance, especially the face, intellect, manners etc. In the age of Swift, corruption was rampant and…

power relations among interlocutors, whether superior–subordinate or balanced (Ayres 2009; Gligor, 2011). Before language features in Betrayal are examined, it is crucial to, first of all, demonstrate that applying a single pause or silence can make a great…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, and be respectable.” (Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray). This is a light-hearted and humorous musing of the appeal to be young again, which summarizes the hedonistic worldview of Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray that may ring true to others. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that is set in Victorian era London; a society in which appearance and wealth are held at an extremely high…