The Beautiful and Damned

She began to read in a firm voice: "My adored one, I love you wildly. Since yesterday I have been suffering the tortures of the damned, haunted by our memory. I feel your lips against mine, your eyes in mine, your breast against mine. I love you, I love you! You have driven me mad. My arms open, I gasp, moved by a wild desire to hold you again. My whole soul and body cries out for…

Fitzgerald and Zelda were married within a week after the publication of the novel. Fitzgerald’s next novel “The Beautiful and the Damned” is about a young man and his wife, who gradually age into their middle age’s while they wait for the husband to inherit a large fortune. The downside of this novel is that they receive the inheritance too late. To remove themselves from…

What a pain for Hamlet to see his noble father in such pathetic condition. What a shame! His mother and uncle betrayed him and his father. Hamlet cries. Bitter tears flow of his beautiful, blue eyes. I cover this scene because very soon I will refer to it to argue those scholars interpretation who assert that Hamlet was “mad” craving for his mother’s sexual desire. “Unmanly grief” and “Oedipus” Hamlet or Gertrude’s sexual…

The Three Musketeers My father didn’t like me, my mother tried to make it seem like she didn’t like me. Though my mother put in effort in her attempt, my father did not as much. My father only put up with me because she put up with me. If she’d ever wanted me gone, he’d simply ask her when. I don’t think I was supposed to happen. Not for him, at least. Upon hearing of my mother’s pregnancy, he optioned for her to abort me. He asked her again two weeks later when she said she would but never did.…

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was high on life. He was an author, although not that famous, and wanted more. He had written many books and short stories including, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”and “The Beautiful and the Damned”. His most famous work, though, was written in 1924. The Great Gatsby lived up to its expectations and received high remarks later on in it’s career after Fitzgerald had passed. It’s narrated by a young man named Nick Carraway who just…

believes she knows more than others because she is well educated, but this know it all mentality goes back to her vulnerability. Her mother, Mrs. Hopewell was speaking on Joy-Hulga when she said “People who looked on the bright side of things would be beautiful even if they are not.” She said this because of her daughters’…

Tom confides to Nick that “I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else” than the East Egg (Fitzgerald 10). This statement reveals the deep divide that exists between the two factions, suggesting that an integration between the two is impossible. Gatsby's main goal is to win the affections of…

voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened, then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” (14)Fitzgerald decided that he would show very early that Daisy was very beautiful and that would help show Gatsby’s love for her. This set the tone for the rest of the book because the readers can see that Gatsby has this dream and he will be chasing it for the rest of the story. Later in the first chapter, Gatsby is…

it did not detach itself though. The silence that followed was reminiscent of being in a library. Mark finally broke the silence. “I guess I did create a mess.” His words are frightening. What happens if the dead feel guilty? Maybe they would be damned for eternity in hell, something my Christian upbringing was not clear about. He was my brother, and in spite of a mistake condemning him to hell was unthinkable. “We need a plan to fix everything,” I…

Pygmalion: Meant to Be Separate There're many discussions about the open ending of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. From a feminist perspective, Eliza Doolittle becomes a independent woman from a flower girl, and she seeks equality and respect in the play. However, Henry Higgins is indeed a typical sexist person, which means there're such differences between their values. This paper will analyzes these two main characters and discuss the purpose of Shaw setting a open ending in…