The Beautiful and Damned

Many classical pieces of literature do not become famous until after their author has far deceased. For F. Scott Fitzgerald this is more true. Kenneth Eble was assiduous to Fitzgerald's work saying, “It took critics a long time to recognize that a writer like Fitzgerald could be more than superficially romantic, an even longer time to realize that he was, as a novelist, intuitively historical” (Eble, 3). While Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” pervades under many high school student’s…

on a tree and since nobody can either reach heaven or the apple she called it hopelessly. Emily Dickinson goes on to explain people who believe in the idea of heaven will also be a trick by the notion of paradise. The poem also mentions that the beautiful purple skyline in the evening makes a person become gullible to the idea that there is a heaven “Her teasing Purples—Afternoons—the credulous—decoy”…

of the main characters in The Great Gatsby, refuses to marry Gatsby because he is not rich enough for her taste. After his first novel is published, Zelda accepts his proposal and they get married. Scott’s second novel is published (“The Beautiful and The Damned”, 1922), after their only child is born. Zelda wrote a review claiming that her personal journal entries were included, and their marriage starts to go downhill. In the year of 1925, The Great Gatsby is published. The Great Gatsby’s…

get through and out onto the outside. His house A burning Inferno raging behind him smoke reaching up to the sky kissing the moon a beautiful burning canvas filled with memories and joy, his home burning Down to the ground the fire dancing to the winds, the Meadow where filled with beautiful flowers what were dancing in breeze with the raging fire behind a beautiful sadness indeed. Orchids and berry bushes: Heavens gemstones, glisten were shining brightly in the moonlight against the throned…

There that he met and fell in love with a beautiful eighteen year old girl named Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The war ended before he was ever deployed, and when he was discharged he moved to New York City and got a job there in hopes of marrying Zelda. After a while…

Through the course of the epic, he transitions from the most beautiful to the ugliest, but this degradation is all his own fault. The Satan of the first two books is a spirited commander who rallies his defeated troops, restores them to military discipline, and oversees the construction of a new capital. He alone plotted…

Sisyphus was the King of Corinth that was damned to an eternity of repetitiveness in moving a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down the hill just to repeat the process. The gods thought this was an appropriate punishment due to his chronic defiance of the gods’ wishes by defying their wishes and literally locking death in chains. Due to this unique punishment, Camus has termed Sisyphus the absurd hero and claims that his punishment is symbolic of the human condition of strife and…

The Roaring Twenties was a dramatic time period that will go down in history for the vast trends that it brought about. It came at the conclusion of World War I, when patriotism was at an all-time high, along with the heights of new buildings and economic prosperity. Unfortunately, these were not the only trends that grew to new heights, as sin, also, grew to an unforeseen everyday norm, especially for the wealthy. Author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fictionalizes these record-setting norms for sin,…

Would you feast on my companions? Puny, am I? In a cave man’s hand? How do you like the beating that we gave you, you damned cannibal? Eater of guests under your roof! Zeus and the gods have paid you.” (Homer 435) The epic story “The Odyssey” written by Homer, a young man with the name of Odysseus and his men decide to go to war, for 10 years. Later on Odysseus and his…

In the film “A Streetcar Named Desire” there are multiple scenes that have conflict between appearance and reality. The plot of the film is ambiguous and it ends without a resolution. The incredible camera work and techniques that Elia Kazan did, created a feeling of confusion and misjudgment, making the audience want to see more. On the other hand, Kazan’s film main character Blanche DuBois, is played by Vivien Leigh. Furthermore, Vivien Leigh, creates a divergent character in the film who…