King Philip's War

Between Daisy and Gatsby or even Wilson and Myrtle. During Daisy and Gatsby’s love timeline, before he left for the war when she was merely a teenager. “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometimes” (Fitzgerald 75). Daisy was mesmerized by Gatsby, she was in love, true love. Now when Nick moves in…

Throughout history, colors have been used symbolically in most forms of literature, and this color symbolism can be found in almost any famous novel. The reason for this is that colors are the universal language of emotion. Colors, in literature, can show so many traits about people places and objects such as emotional state, social class, and even their meaning in the theme of the story. For this reason, color symbolism is an extremely important part of literature, especial in F. Scott…

Pablo Picasso, a famous artist throughout the 20th century, once proclaimed, “Colors, like features, follow the changes of emotion.” Pablo Picasso, a painter who used colors in his works to convey emotions, explains to us that colors can often be used to reflect different emotions. Artists, authors, painters, graphic designers, and many more people like Picasso have used the technique of color symbolism to portray different points, emotions, or symbols that they wish to express to their viewers.…

In society people judge others on appearance before they judge their actions. The beautiful and wealthy Daisy Buchanan is Jay Gatsby’s one true love. Unfortunately when Gatsby was away in the war Daisy didn’t want to wait for him she selfishly married Tom Buchanan. As time went on Tom and Daisy’s marriage wasn’t doing well since both were having affairs behind each other’s back. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby”, Daisy is behind the deaths of both Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson.…

made by some force – of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality – that was close at hand.” (Fitzgerald 151). Gatsby had none of these. Daisy knew that Gatsby wasn’t extremely wealthy so didn’t feel the need to wait for him to return from the war. Instead she married the wealthiest man that she could find, Tom Buchanan, so that she would be safe. When Daisy meets Gatsby again she questions whether or not she would be happier with Gatsby but she realized that, “She is unable to leave Tom…

been to one of Gatsby’s parties, and she already has believed some of the rumors she heard. She did not get information directly from Gatsby, but yet she believes that he is the nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm’s who was the ruler of Germany during World War I. Another example of ignorance in chapter two comes from Myrtle. Myrtle tells Nick how she first met Tom. She first fell for him on a train because of how well dressed he was. At the party in chapter two, Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose with a punch…

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…

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…

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…

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…