The Beautiful and Damned

According to the article " 'Gatsby ' Author Fitzgerald Rests In A D.C. Suburb” (2012), “Fitzgerald was the writer who defines the Jazz Age, with stories of carefree youth, flappers and millionaires. He became an emblem of the era, living out many of its excesses.” Fitzgerald wrote many famous stories that are still admired today. Some of these were praised so much that they have been turned into movies; however, what most people don’t know is that some of these books/movies were written based on…

Who doesn’t enjoy a nice party? Weather it’s a gathering of you and your close friends or the biggest house party you can only experience in theaters. Now picture yourself in the “Roaring Twenties”. Imagine luxurious mansions, hollow bottles of alcohol spread all around the side tables. Smoking, flirting, being drunk, letting go, this was the “Roaring Twenties”. The Roaring Twenties began in 1920’s. Three components made up this decade: Alcohol Prohibition, Flappers, and the Jazz Age. Each…

Only few American Authors could have one of their novels considered the greatest ever written and have five movie adaptations of it. This critically acclaimed author lived during America’s Jazz age, an era where the U.S was involved in cultural change and few authors could truly depict what was happening. Fitzgerald distinguished himself as an esteemed author through his unique writing style achieving his legendary fame within this era. Fitzgerald’s most unequivocal traits are in correlation…

They found Maurice Stanley’s decomposing body at the factory grounds. He’d been lynched, the media concluded. He must have deserved it, they whispered under their breaths, or said much louder. After all, a people as wretched as his kind did deserve no better fate…. but did they, really? Was their existence really so cursed, so pathetic, that mercy should skip them? That justice itself should forsake them? Or rather, did they have the curse thrust upon them? Like a leash of heavy brass that would…

never fade as they are not bound by time. Even though he will never be able to kiss her, he will forever be about to, which is arguably better than actually kissing her. As they are frozen in time, their love will never fade, nor will the piper’s beautiful song; they are “for ever young” which means that they are living in an ideal world in contrast to the real world which “old age shall (it) waste”. This idea of obstacles very much links with the “green light” that was “minute and far away,”…

His writings are: This Side of Paradise (1920), Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tale of Jazz Age (1922), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Vegetable or from President to Postman (1923), The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), Tender is the Night (1934), Taps at Reveille (1935), The Last Tycoon, an unfinished novel (1941), The Crack-up (1945), Afternoon of an Author (1957). In Short, the American dream of attaining fortune and happiness was the central idea in the minds…

Research Paper- Tragic character flaws in Oedipus the King and Othello, the Moor of Venice Oedipus the King and Othello, the Moor of Venice are both plays that explore character flaws that every common person possesses. Both poems tell stories about noble men (Oedipus and Othello respectively) who end up succumbing to their tragic character flaws. A tragic character flaw is accurately described in the Journal article “The Tragic Flaw: is it a Tragic error?” when it says: “ Distinct from this,…

Shakespeare uses several ways to present emotion in the character relationship in hamlet an example of this is hamlet having more power other the relationship and being more determined. Hamlet declares “no.”which is the technique “one sentence” showing that he making his own decisions, also being forceful. Therefore this affects the relationship between hamlet and Claudius as Claudius may be threatened by hamlet and conflict will happen. However Claudius does not have any knowledge making him…

This is the story of the demigods who die and live every day. Some of them are destined to do great things but their fate is usually twisted by the evils that lurk around every corner and they are killed before they even realize their true personality. Sometimes they meet their godly parent while sometimes not. The stronger a demigod is the more the chances are he will get caught by the monsters and will be killed. The same goes for the demigod who has a strong heritage. The demigods live hard…

The nineteen-twenties saw a great change in American society. With the recent upturn in the American economy, the United States became a “consumer society”. (History.com) This is the world of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who rose to great wealth in mysterious ways. Gatsby threw lavish parties, characteristic of the time, and lived a life of luxury. Through the novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald portrays his view of the era he lived in; the roaring twenties. Using a new historicism approach…