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    Does money truly buy happiness? Many people don’t believe that it does, but in The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan lives her life searching for money that she can hide all of her problems in. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, A wealthy man named Gatsby throws outrageous parties to attract his old love, Daisy Buchanan, who lives across the New York Sound with her wealthy and arrogant husband Tom. The novel revolves around a group of affairs and lies told by all of the characters in…

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    Imagine having to attend a party in which all the guests know information about a person’s affair against their spouse. In this situation, most people would want to share this information with the victim of the marriage, but in the second chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway does the complete opposite. Nick Carraway was forced to go to a party of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson’s, where he gains insight on their relationship. Nick remains a silent bystander and does not tell Daisy about…

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    In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote an American classic, The Great Gatsby. Then, in 2013, Baz Luhrmann directed an adaptation starring Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio. Of course, they have similarities except they also have striking differences. Things such as characters and settings of the book have changed in the movie. The characters differ from the book to the movie. In the movie, it showed that Nick wrote the novel while in an institution, something like a hospital, and had describing to…

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    How Is Jay Gatsby Selfish

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    In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a multidimensional character that F. Scott Fitzgerald creates to be the center of conflict, in the book. He is a wealthy man living in West Egg, New York who throws extremely extravagant parties in his gargantuan house. Gatsby’s mysterious past and hard to believe track record makes people interested in him. Gatsby is a hopeless romantic trying to obtain his one and only love, a lavish man who wants everyone to know so, and is so mysterious, people wonder if…

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    Morals In Antigone

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    Sophocles, the Greek author of Antigone, used his work to relay messages about the many issues implanted within society. In his play Antigone, the tragic heroine faces the consequences of defying the law. She goes against her uncle, the king, and questions his authorities. Throughout the text, the reader is exposed to many different situations in which Antigone tries to justify and defend what she did. In the play Antigone, Sophocles uses the characters and the plot to show the consequences of…

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    audience as in this moment in time Macbeth wants to protect his King and his country from evil when later on, he will be the cause of evil. The author must’ve wanted to show that in the beginning of the play Macbeth is a loyal righteous member of the King’s trusted people but later on he will be the person who commits regicide. Committing regicide is a very heinous sin as it is an offence to God, if you alter the position of the Kings, and goes to…

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    In society color has many meanings such as red and blue symbolizing hot and cold. Also, in society colors represent many different things, yellow represents warmth but also represent caution. The meanings of colors throughout history have changed too, today in society blue portrays sadness but in the Middle Ages it portrayed devotion. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the luxurious 1920s are precisely depicted. During this prosperous age there were many key factors that shaped…

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    There was a time in history called the Jazz Age, which took place during the “Roaring Twenties”. This novel’s setting is based in the time era of the Jazz Age and the “Roaring Twenties”. The Jazz Age was a time period in the 1920’s where new music and dances became popular in the United States and even Britain. Everyone started being more rebellious by going to more parties, and always drinking and having a good time. The “Roaring Twenties” are when more people decided to live in cities instead…

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    Gatsby Color Symbolism

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    Color has many different meanings in our everyday lives, from a simple go at a green traffic light to stop and pull over to a flashing blue light. Everywhere you look you see simple colors that mean different things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway is bombarded with colorful people and their very colorful array of possessions and places as he adapts to the New York way of life in the 1920’s. Nick meets a man named Gatsby and helps him get the girl of his dreams…

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    In life and in literature, colors are often used to symbolize things of a deeper meaning. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, color symbolism is used extensively throughout the plot to represent issues and feelings of the characters. The colors that were used most often for symbolism were green, blue, red, white, and yellow. First off, green is a symbol for extraordinary hope. Next, blue symbolizes sadness and poverty. In addition, red stands for love and rage. Also, white…

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