Decadence

Fitzgerald’s critiques the true value of wealth during the 1920s by portraying how the characters use their fortune to shapes how one must live their everyday lives. Throughout the entire novel, Gatsby strived to upgrade his impoverished lifestyle to gain acceptance from Daisy. Though he achieved his success, it was still not enough to win Daisy over. Gatsby’s had not changed his true identity, he was influenced by his wealth to do things he normally would not do; “Gatsby had turned out alright…

about by the rapid urbanization and immigration of the previous decades. Women developed new roles within society and the economy flourished. However some writers looked past the vibrant and youthful facade into the darker issues of the time such as decadence and materialism. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of these writers and his novel The Great Gatsby explores the gap that had formed between pre and post-war society. The namesake of the novel Jay Gatsby is a successful businessman who has…

The wide spread of practicing the worship of spiritual beings helped expose early societies to communicate in other forms of expression besides language and writing. Art, storytelling, production of precious metals such as silver and gold, starting being highly sought after and thus helping the progression of trade between civilizations from different areas around the known world. Another trend in earlier civilizations was creating monuments and temples in honoring their Gods. Wonders of…

Teenage years are the most important years in human development, these are the years human goes through extreme changes and experiences the new-found freedom. Idea, imagination, fantasy, and reality often entangle during these years – they often create the confusion between the perception and the reality. Inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s “Spirit In The Night “, T.C. Boyle gave us an insight experience in the life of teenagers in the 1960s through his short story, “Greasy Lake”. It’s an insightful…

Two female characters, Marji from Persepolis, and Tambu from Nervous Conditions, go through struggles to overcome entrapment and ultimately escape. Throughout these two novels, Marji and Tambu both embody most of the ten characteristics of an archetypal female hero. Marji and Tambu both experience gender expectations, become an outcast, and go on a journey to create a better life. Also, in the beginning of both novels, Marji and Tambu live an ordinary life, then confront gender oppression,…

Contrasting to the ‘good’ values, Belasco (2008) argued that convenience is seen to be ‘decadences’ including laziness, neglect, apathy, obesity and moral disrepute (Degreef, 2015).In addition to values and material of convenience, advertising as the communication attributes in convenience works as the guidance of what is good to eat and how does it taste, as people believed more on the advertising, rather than their own palate (Vileisis, 2008). Botonaki&Mattas (2010) also stated that the…

‘Carpe diem.’ These words depict the main idea of the film ‘Dead Poets’ Society’’. The drama film, released in 1989, was set in the US in 1959 at the most conservative and aristocratic at that time Wellton academy. The script was written by Tom Schulman and it accounts of his experience at the Montgomery Bell-academy. The motto of the film – ‘seize the day’ - has been perfectly illustrated by the talents and commitment of the actors. The story is told from the perspective of Robin Williams in…

Diana Vreeland, a known “empress of fashion”, once said, “Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes” (LeTrent 19). Fashion is generally defined as the clothing and accessories that are worn by individuals. Even though fashion seems like a simple and insignificant topic, fashion impacts almost every aspect of our society. Fashion reveals not only cultural changes that are occurring in society, but…

their ideals. Laws were just words on a page; people were morally demoralised; the whole society was damaged. The history of human illustrates that the rise of an age is always followed by the fall. There is neither permanent prosperity, nor enteral decadence and the age in the novel happened to be the time America was going to fell. The broken of the society could be regarded as an inevitable process of the history. Gatsby believed that he was great enough to reverse the past, but how could…

culture: First, the literary historical view initiated and advanced through the Literary Return Movement is solidified and inscribed on the cultural space: Persian poetry is seen as having gone through a golden age followed by a period of decline and decadence. Second, this perception is combined with the one initiated and advanced by the new intellectuals, namely, that in Europe literature has played an important part in the steady march of modern civilization. The contrast that thus emerges…