The Beautiful and Damned

A wise man once stated “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies,” According to Webster, betrayal involves the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals. William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all critically follow this trend by developing characters whose acts of betrayal lead to disastrous outcomes for themselves and those…

Growing up, F Scott Fitzgerald didn 't live life the way he wanted. He had many problems with school. Making money was also another problem that he faced even though he wrote many books. He was in debt to many people. He also had a problem with alcohol drinking. He put what he wanted to be in some of his characters. The one I have chosen to go into more depth about was Jay Gatsby. As Jay Gatsby was an almost perfect character in the story. In the story "The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald…

cultural stigma was present. The Tempest is a play about a former Duke, named Prospero, with magical powers on a mostly uninhabited island who uses his powers to shipwreck the person who stole his dukedom, Antonio. Prospero lives on the island with his beautiful daughter, Miranda, the spirit Ariel, and the bastard son of the…

In our reading of Huckleberry Finn, the titular character thinks about his consequences for freeing an enslaved man named Jim Huck would be shunned upon, be made a shame of, and damned, but he resolves to save Jim by making a significant sacrifice when he declares “all right, then, I’ll go to hell” (345). Similarly, Elizabeth makes a powerful and final statement that would set the course for her rule: “I am married... to England…

Wittenberg serves as the catalyst for action within the bard’s arguably most famous play. From the moment Hamlet witnesses the ghost of his father, his clearly defined views of the world and his faith are shaken. The world around him does not seem so beautiful or simple as he once thought; in seeing his father’s spirit, Hamlet takes the proverbial bite of the forbidden fruit and suddenly Denmark no longer appears as a veritable Garden of Eden. From his claims that the world “[is] an unweeded…

My Ticket Out Have you ever felt like you needed to pack up your bags and leave? Or craved a change of scenery? Maybe, meet new people? Have you ever feel such a strong longing for a clean slate? I know I do. My mindset about getting out of North Dakota has yet to change, although many said it would by the time things start getting “real.” I never understood what people meant by saying that. Is being “real” staying 30 miles from home in the same place you have lived your whole life? If so, that…

I had a pretty typical life before it happened. I lived with my father and my 7-year old brother in the suburbs. The only interesting thing that has happened to me was my mother’s disappearance. It happened a few years ago, we all just woke up one day and she was gone without a trace. Nobody, not even the police, could figure out what had happened. It was a strange coincidence, because the same thing had happened to my grandmother as well. I had an idea of where she went, though. It all…

The Great Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant author who’s writing captured aura of the 1920’s and the hearts of millions of people around the world. Although Fitzgerald failed in more things than he succeeded in, and let that get the best of him, he’s still managed to bring his own story to the jazz age. He stole the heart of his wife and got his name in English books everywhere. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, named after a well-known author and cousin who wrote the “Star- Spangled…

The Vampire: Enemy Invader Literature is ordinarily written in a manner that represents the thoughts and ideals of a society during a certain time period. Since literary vampires were the simplest and most effective scapegoats used by authors in order to convey a message of fear to their audience. However, while vampires represent the fears of a society, they simultaneously provide some insight on society’s hopes and desires. Despite the fact that Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872) and Bram…

friendships and relationships, for a chance to become part of the higher class (“This Side of Paradise” britannica, 3/15/16). As opposed to Fitzgerald’s more imaginative work, he also had his time having a more naturalistic approach. The Beautiful and the Damned, is a novel that depicts the dissipative lives of Anthony and Gloria Patch. In this novel, Fitzgerald was mirroring his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, which was not a very pleasant marriage after a few years. A later novel, Tender is…