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    Macbeth is a very kind‚ noble man and is very polite to everyone especially to the king. In the play Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth undergoes a transformation which brings him the crown‚ for a short period of time‚ which leads to his death. There are three factors which led him to this tragedy. Firstly‚ the most minor situation are the three witches. Secondly‚ Macbeth’s ambition is a big factor which led to Macbeths downfall. There are a lot of things like soliloquies‚ characterization

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    “Is Tom most responsible for Gatsby’s death? Daisy? Myrtle? Gatsby himself? Give reasons why or why not each character is implicated in the murder.” Great Gatsby Essay There are five people that are responsible for Jay Gatsby’s death. One of them is directly to blame‚ since he pulled the trigger. The other three were involved in the murder. The one who pulled the trigger was George Wilson. He was in pain because of the murder of his wife. He loved her‚ and he was completely insane

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    Direct-Cameron Paul Good afternoon. Please state out your name and spell it out for the record. My name is Cameron Paul. P-A-U-L. What do you do for a living? I am a crime scene analyst with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory Service Division‚ also known as the State Laboratory. Currently‚ I conduct all ballistics and firearms analysis‚ in addition to my duties as a chief CSA. What is your relationship with this case? On May 22nd‚ I received a call from an

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    The Great Gatsby is a novel that is treasured as a renewable book in American literature collections. Read among a variety of age groups‚ it holds testament to its honorary title. The missive of the how the pursue of American dream can lead to consequences and decoration are not only evident in the star characters‚ but in the relevance of modernity‚ drama‚ and composition in F. Scott- Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is not a story about Jay Gatsby. It is a story about the green light

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    The settings and backdrops in The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ are essential elements to the formation of the characters‚ symbolic imagery and the overall plot development. Fitzgerald uses East and West Egg communities to portray two separate worlds and two classes of people that are technically the same their status‚ but fundamentally different in their ideals. The physical geography of the settings is representative of the distance between classes of the East and West Eggers. Every

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    while he is trying to get Daisy from Tom‚ Gatsby is so overly consumed by his want of her he cannot see her immoral character‚ which creates a strange scene especially after the argument that happened in New York and accident in the Valley of Ashes when Gatsby sits outside and watches Daisy’s home‚ exclaiming to Nick “I’m just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon” (145). This helps establish that Gatsby is blind to her by sitting outside watching

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    This book‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F Scott. Fitzgerald in 1925‚ is a novel dedicated to the inhabitants of wealth‚ power‚ and social status. It was mainly about this astonishingly wealthy man known as Jay Gatsby who dreamed of revitalizing the love that was once present between him and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald has written this story as a connection to his past life to show that acquiring the American Dream is not always accessible. Throughout the story‚ the author has embedded many symbolic

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    1. Agree or disagree: Nick‚ not Gatsby‚ is the hero of the story. The definition which you must use is as follows: A hero is a fictional character who is looked upon as having great strength and courage. I disagree with this statement because while Nick is the narrator of the story‚ he constantly addresses Gatsby as the better man and Gatsby was very courageous in trying to prevent people from getting hurt. Gatsby constantly tries to placate others when they get misfortune that is even remotely

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    In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald describes numerous messages that are vital to the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is this mysterious character that spends his entire life trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Fay. But‚ Gatsby fails and his dreams are crushed which leads to a series of disastrous events. Because of characters’ tragic deaths‚ Fitzgerald makes it prominent that the American Dream is unachievable and it can ultimately lead to one’s destruction. Jay

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    Ambition In The Great Gatsby

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    goals can have a series of destructive effects potentially leading to their demise. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ is a novel that depicts the consequences that relate to one’s obstinate devotion to their goal. Characters in the novel strive to achieve their individual goals‚ however they become blinded by their ambition in the process. Jay Gatsby‚ the protagonist in The Great Gatsby is an ideal representation of an individual whose ambition lies in his love for a woman he had lost long ago

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