Giela Tehrani English Period 2 11/24/12 The Great Gatsby Prompt 1 Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is not your ordinary love story. The Merriam- Webster dictionary defines love as the object of attachment‚ devotion‚ or admiration. In many cases two people might think they are in love‚ but they may just be in love with the idea of each other. An obsession with an idea about someone could feel just as intense as actually being in love with him or her. The novel seems to be a tragic story of
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A&E’s The Great Gatsby film study guide (Answer on a separate sheet in complete sentences) Pre-Viewing 1. How was the 1920’s a reaction to WWI? 2. Some people think that having money leads to happiness. Do you agree? Why or why not? What are the advantages or disadvantages of being wealthy. 3. What is the "American Dream"? Where did it originate‚ and how has it changed over the centuries? 4. Describe a situation when you wanted to relive a moment from your past‚ to redo it? How
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Cristian Lugo P.6 9/18/12 The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ has been celebrated as one of the greatest‚ if not the greatest American novel. Yet this is ironic for the society which has so hailed the book is precisely that which is criticized throughout it. Politically‚ the American dream was a foundation of ideals and hopes for any and every American individual. Specifically‚ one of the ideals was an American dream free of class distinction; that every person has the opportunity
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Scott Fitzgerald ‚ referred to his own experience‚ wrote his masterpiece-The Great Gatsby. Through abundant symbols‚ Fitzgerald profoundly depicted the society of Jazz Age and successfully displayed the disillusionment of American Dream‚ which existed in the majority of American in 1920s. To describe the restlessness of the “lost generation” in the “roaring twenties”‚ the author created several typical tragic characters. This paper‚ based on some symbolic theories‚ focuses on how the author brought
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The Great Gatsby Connecting Device to Meaning Grid Activity [Major Grade] |Ch |Device/ Strategy [2] |Passage/p. # [2] |Connect to Meaning [8] | |1 |Juxtaposition |“There’s a bird on the lawn that I think must be a | | | | |nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He’s |
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Chapter 7 1. Look up Trimalchio and decide whether that is an appropriate comparison for Gatsby. Trimalchio was the protagonist in Satyricon‚ by Petronius. He was a freedman who gained prestige and power through sheer tenacity and hard work. Once he attained his wealth‚ he enjoyed throwing lavish parties that were meant to impress his variety of guests. The comparison of Gatsby and Trimalchio is obvious. Both were newly rich‚ and trying to get the right attention. Fitzgerald’s early version
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Final project The paper chooses two characters from the famous work The Great Gatsby‚ who are Daisy and Gatsby respectively. The paper will analyze the two characters from following points of comparison: dreamer or realist‚ desire for what‚ motivations‚ origins and their fates. The paper will respectively choose “A beautiful kite with the string in the sky” and “A beautiful kite without the string in the sky” as symbols of two characters. In the whole novel‚ it is easy to find that Daisy is
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Ernest Hemingway create strong female characters in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises that have contrasting personalities but both destroy the hope of love for the men that surround them. In Fitzgerald’s novel Daisy is a rich young woman who is soft spoken yet self-destructive because of her constant need for security. Brett is a strong‚ out-spoken woman in The Sun Also Rises‚ who has destructive affairs with many men and ultimately leaves them. Both characters are different in the way they behave
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in Shakespeare’s tragic plays. In these movingly charged plots‚ the characters often possess great power and appear invincible when‚ due to inherent character flaws‚ fall from grace and inevitably pay dearly with their own life. After reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ it is abundantly clear that at least three of its character invite the catastrophes that they ultimately experience. In this play‚ Macbeth is an archetypal character who meets the definition of Aristotelian tragic hero. Lady Macbeth also
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make the right decisions. How does a man determine truth from rumor? How does he react to information that is against his moral standards? How does he remain fair and just in the face of suspicion and doubt? There has to be‚ within the man ’s character‚ a set of values and principles that enables him to draw the right conclusions and act with clarity‚ which will ensure results that are minimally damaging to those involved. This assignment‚ being a topic of my own choosing focusing primarily
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