The Beautiful and Damned

autobiographical, taking place at Princeton, and includes “rebellious” characters, an aspect of literature that highly appealed to the readers of the Jazz Age. In its first year, This Side of Paradise sold more than forty-thousand copies. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald’s next novel, was a transitional novel at the time consisting of creative experimentation as far as plot, content, tone, and characters went (“Authors and Artists for Young Adults” 6). It is seen by far as the most…

treated as second-class citizens, they were required to be obedient, pure and ‘should they be beautiful everything is needless, for at least twenty years of their lives.’ This quote reinstates the idea that men objectify women in their appearance and praise them for keeping their virginity. Through both…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer who did not receive the credit he deserved during his lifetime. His personal life had an effect on the way he wrote. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s lifestyle and his book, The Great Gatsby, fit in perfectly with the Jazz Age during the roaring 20’s. He wrote in a traditional writing style, which also helped him fit into the Lost Generation. F. Scott Fitzgerald was influenced by his marriage and his problems with alcohol during his life. His figurative language and…

Blanche DuBois: Functioning through Fantasy “We 're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we 're not alone.” This statement from Orson Welles perfectly sums up Blanche’s philosophy about life in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche DuBois is a young woman from a formerly rich southern family. Her life has been full of mistakes and tragedies that she can’t get over. She creates a fantasy life full of millionaires…

This is the difficult part for Ocelot. Not the fingering Kaz, but ignoring that his dick is hard as hell and his body is yelling to fuck him, to ravage him and to make him see stars, no, scratch that, to see goddamn galaxies. He's so beautiful like this, brain vs. body, brain fighting to keep his dignity and not respond and to be stronger than this, but his body, oh, his body is winning the battle, hand gripping the sheets and a bead of blood on his lip from how hard he's biting, eyes lidded…

Piety, courage, and industry, were the Pilgrims’ most cherished values. They were thought such a necessity because of each values’ strong place in building a stable and prosperous community, as well as keeping a “morally” intact society, the “new Jerusalem.” But “paradise” is not to be gained without challenge and great effort against the “enemy of God” and they came in the form of hardship, privation, and fear. Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, and Edwards wrote of these hardships that they and…

He is fuming when he says, “Ay let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night; for she shall not live” (4.1.165). He goes on to state; “I will chop her to messes. Cuckold me!” (4.1.81). He is very insulted that she would disrespect him in such a way. Othello is also concerned with others seeing his wife is not faithful…

the brittle friendship of the great,” (69-70). She is talking straight about her husband and his affair with another woman, she joking again and using the tone of sarcasm, she was speaking based on a real station so it is more affecting. “Let me be damned by the censorious prude stupidly dull, or spiritually lewd)” (63-64). Here she is wishing her husband to be happy with his new woman and to be enjoy great moment with her so she wish if she can see her as a bride to him, again she is using a…

In the novel The Sun Also Rises the main focus is the lost generation. The way the modern woman acted was unacceptable to any traditional woman before this way of life. The modern woman during this time did almost whatever she wanted. A woman could smoke cigarettes, wear short skirts, wear her stockings short or not at all, and she could cut her hair as short as she wanted it. The modern woman was a representation of all that was lost consisting of the lost generation; manners, stability in a…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was in many ways, one of the most memorable writers of the twentieth century. His literary voice and style in his fiction novels have a deeper meaning, telling about the “jazz age” he was living in and the life situations he had been experiencing through fabricating his novels. Scott was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was named after his second cousin, Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the, “Star- Spangled Banner.” Scotts mother, Mary, was from…