Dark side

The American Dream is what everyone was striving for in the novel was about gaining wealth and material possessions to find happiness. The life of the roaring twenties was full of parties, laughter, and entertainment. In this time period, Tom and Daisy were more worried about their image and possessions than having a healthy marriage. In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel of the restrained love between a man and a woman , Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Jay…

In chapter 13 of the Disappearing Spoon titled "Elements as Money" The author Kien talks about the value of the elements in terms of money and says the difference between the items that are sold more or less because of the value of it uses. It tells a myth of Midas, the king of what is now called Turkey, Phrygia and how he had kept the ability of being able to convert anything that would touch in gold. He was not able to control this power of his and eventually turned his own daughter into gold…

The Jazz Age, illustrious with ideals of prosperity, is reminisced for the backfire of the Prohibition, which lead to the materialistic gains of bootleggers and parties roaring with alcohol. Speakeasys and surreptitious parties created a sort of underground culture that lurked in the shadows of high society. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald overlooked the glittering and shiny objects to unveil the moral corruptness present amongst the wealthy. Describing frivolous details of…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by the American writer Francis Scat Fitzgerald, first published in 1925. It is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman, and it is one of the greatest literary documents dating back to the 1920s Roaring Twenties, a pivotal period that marked a turning point in Americans' lives, morally, materially and socially (Shen, 2012). This classic American novel is one of the finest pieces of American literature. It is such because F. Scott Fitzgerald has…

Hopes and dreams play a role of great importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. The author, John Steinbeck, uses the motivation provided by the dreams of characters to keep the novel progressing. In many ways, the individual dreams of the characters and the so-called “American Dream” provides the basis for the novel. Towards the end of the novel, many dreams are crushed when the characters were actually finding real hope. George and Lennie are two men who dream of having their own land with a…

This is most evident in the hypnopaedic phrase “progress is lovely.” The World State constantly moves forward with no regard for what side effects may happen. Progress does not always mean that society is getting better. Huxley warns against the constant forward motion of the world at the time. The idea of a perfect or advanced world might not be the best. Despite Aldous Huxley writing…

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “money often costs too much” (Berger). The world seems to revolve around money, and it often distracts people from the joys of life that bring them fulfillment. This is shown in almost every main character of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although on the surface the characters of The Great Gatsby seem to live glamourous and joyous lives due to the riches they have, when they are examined more closely, it is evident that their money actually does not…

Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878. He was born from a poor, migrant Swedish family who struggled when they first arrived in America. He loved all different sort of things and later discovered that the fine arts and sports appealed to him. As a younger child he experienced many injustices of laborers, which later shaped his socialist beliefs. He worked from the time that he was a young boy and quit school in the eighth grade. As he grew up he bounced from job to job trying to make a…

family and given the name of a dead son but lacked a surname which would prove he belonged. Throughout the novel Heathcliff battled with himself and many others which gave off the impression that he was a violent individual but according to Brontë this side of Heathcliff was merely due to the fact that his upbringing lacked the characteristics needed to fulfil a wholesome human being, “Emily Bronte keeps telling us that he has been victimized and that his viciousness arises from his misery.”…

An Analysis on Jay Gatsby as the Epitome of the American society in the 1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby is a novel that focuses on the lives of Americans who belong to the upper class in society in New York set in the 1920s. The 1920s, better known as the Roaring Twenties, was the era characterized by a number of positive and negative outcomes that highly influenced the United States of America. This was the era of economic prosperity, the rise of consumerism, the popularization of Jazz…