Morality in The Great Gatsby Essay

In Ray Bradbury’s short story The Pedestrian, the portrayal of the main character Leonard Mead and his love for irrelevant, bygone practices, such as writing and going on walks, locked in conflict with the futuristic civilization that he lives in, who are all obsessed with anything that appears on their screens, symbolizes the unsightly truths of the corrupting nature of and flaws of society. Mead lives amongst a population that is solely focused upon the consumption of technology. Unimaginable…

Menagerie. Durang showed the true story in my opinion. I love parodies of things they are always funny, but I have never enjoyed a parody more than the actual story (or most of the time song) before. It is a valid parody to me, it is funny and does a great job of making fun of the story and making a mockery of it. Durang takes the small things from Williams’ story that you can read in between the lines and blows them up and makes them huge ordeals that also have some humor to them. I enjoy how…

Severus Snape is a complicated and well written character in the Harry Potter series but contrary to popular opinion he is not some valiant hero nor is he the persecuted martyr that the a majority of the fandom perceives him to be it is quite clear when you look at the bigger picture that Snape is actually a petty bully with deplorable morals who does not deserve Albus Potters middle name during his teen years at Hogwarts young Snape lusted after his childhood friend Lily Evans Snape tried to…

Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, money is the cause for the character’s actions and attributes, and this, in turn, affects the events of the novel. During the 1920’s, when The Great Gatsby took place, wealth was one of the most dominant influences in their society. This was because everyone had the same dream of acquiring the status of “rich.” Money was an astronomically immense influence on the way people acted, especially the main character’s in The Great Gatsby, but everyone was impacted…

America has been influenced by many different ethnicities and cultures. “Latinas Make Sweet 16-ish Their Own” by Lizette Alvarez states that the traditional quinceanera party is over done in this generation. Journalist Alvarez’s purpose is to inform the readers that birthday party is a waste of money because many people treat sweet 16th birthday party like weddings; therefore, this statement is a categorical truth. The idea of a quinceanera birthday party started from the Spanish culture. The…

The color white is typically associated with purity and light. White is typically predominant in circumstances regarding elegance and symbolizes cleanliness. In “The Great Gatsby”, the color white is utilized to allude to the same ideas but in an ironic fashion. For example, Daisy and Jordan are said to be wearing white multiple times in the novel. When they are first introduced, Nick tells the reader that, “They are both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had…

In the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, most of the main characters are very wealthy people. They live in the most enormous homes, in the richest of areas of New York, in other words East and West Egg. Obtaining their sophisticated reputations is the key factor to becoming the richest and most powerful people in their society. Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby are described as the most opulent people in the novel, which means they are always in the spotlight. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald…

The Devil and Tom Walker In Society greed and hypocrisy rule over the aspects of the human mind lending to the ultimate misfortune a trip to hell. In the story “The Devil and Tom Walker” folktale by Washington Irving message was about greed and hypocrisy. Tom Walker enticement of easy money in exchange for his soul. The devil collects his souls and this story ends with Tom being take away to hell on the back of a black horse. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but to those practice it…

A Hypebeast is defined by Urban Dictionary as an individual who buys “clothing, shoes, and accessories for the sole purpose of impressing others” (Urban Dictionary, 2006). Though the definition was posted in 2006, the idea of buying things to achieve social status is not new. 1950’s post-war suburbia was filled with middle-class families spending their money on expensive cars and bigger homes, in an effort to increase their image (The Student Movement, 2017). This phenomenon still exists in…

In Mark Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn, one major conflict he uses is nature versus civilization. Most of the people in this extraordinary tale do not show any respect for nature. Huck, on the other hand, shows deep respect for it. Throughout the story, the people show a lack of good morals. Twain portrays them as the “evil” of humanity. Several events in nature takes place out in the woods, on a river, and even on an island in this book. Huck and Jim refer to nature as being their…