Arnold Rothstein

The main character Truman Burbank lives happily in a small town, surrounded by water called Seahaven. He lives in happy life with a good job and kind wife until he starts to suspect that his life is a fake. The town Seahaven is a extremely big hollywood studio, which can be seen from space, where the world’s most famous reality show is recorded, The Truman Show is broadcasted to the entire world all the time. The main character of the show is Truman, who doesn’t know that his life is fake and…

The Great Gatsby is a sad story about the unattainable American Dream. A story about love, sadness, and destruction. Which if you ask me that's what all great stories have in common. And what they all have in common with the American dream. Destruction is a common theme it seems by trying to get more of something they want they must destroy something else. Either happiness or money two thing everyone tries to get but only ended up getting one or the other successfully. For instance Tom and…

Gatsby set himself on a self-destructive crusade to destroy yet recreate the past. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about Jay Gatsby who uproots his entire life to around his personal quest to be reunited with his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s mission takes him from poverty to wealth, to a reunion with his beloved, and to his tragic death. The story of Gatsby is the story of a man who is pinned between an ever-consuming shame and immense guilt. Gatsby is ashamed of the fact that…

Lady Macbeth is a character who self destructed on the road of her metaphorical success. She strived for her desires with a one-route journey, forgetting to stop at a gas station. At the beginning she had no second thoughts, complete droopiness, only forces to pick up the scrapes of her very much ambitious yet soft-minded husband, Macbeth. She reached to the point where she sacrificed her feminism only to reach her outrageous intentions. Without considering her feminine aspect plays a big part…

The Real Life Message An Analysis of Three Messages from the Great Gatsby The “The Great Gatsby” is an amazing book written in 1925 that depicts the life of the people living in the 1920’s. This time was a time of a love of money, drugs, partying, drinking, and sex. This time period took place right after war and a time of depression and it led to the rise of billionaires and economic wealth. One interesting thing is that no drugs were illegal at this time and doctors actually prescribed…

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…

Many times in 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…

< What does Jonathan swift criticize in Gulliver’s Travels?> Today, I have studied the article about dystopia which is the opposite of ideal world. It also means ‘ the not good place’ and ‘no place’. As 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…

“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…

Have you ever lied about something to boost success or earn something valuable? Certain characters in the novel, The Great Gatsby tend to lie in order to achieve something as well. The themes, the nature of lies and deceit and the fallacy of the American Dream, pertain to the novel as a whole due to the actions the characters create or participate in. The author, Fitzgerald, includes certain behavior that his characters do that applies to the theme the nature of lying, that can affect the…