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    adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the director uses several visual techniques to emphasize and heighten the illusion of the American dream. These visual techniques include: Framing‚ color‚ lighting & space. The most interesting type of framing repeated al throughout the film is the use of mirrors in trapping the characters in their surreal reflection. The director used this technique in more than one scenes‚ nevertheless this framing was used when Gatsby is about to meet a

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    words depict the atmosphere of the great expansion and hustle of society into the new age of the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby is a social commentary on American society in this golden age. His novel presents the betrayal of the "American Dream" through the illusion of money‚ materialism‚ and social status. Fitzgerald uses Jay Gatsby to show that The Dream of wealth and social acceptance can corrupt the most innocent of people‚ as Gatsby uses illegal means to obtain wealth

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    The Great Gatsby Do you ever sometimes wish you have everything in life? In fact‚ each and everyone in the world wish or want something. Like love‚ hope‚ wealth and etc. These topics are seen in the book called “The Great Gatsby.” In America‚ as a whole‚ they have this “American Dream” where they all want to be independent and being optimistic about their future‚ pretty much everything great in life. But not everyone in America achieves these dreams because of the distraction around‚ sometimes

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    The American Dream: dead or alive? In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ the theme can be separated into two major aspects. First‚ love versus money- criticizing the corruption of the American dream‚ and second‚ “sight and insight”-the perception that there is no all seeing presence (higher accountability) in the modern world. The American Dream is not dead it is‚ however‚ very corrupted. First‚ the issue of love versus money‚ the criticizing of the corruption of the American dream‚ to show this

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    In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby a classic twentieth-century story that talks about the quest and shows a vision of the American dream‚ there’s as well a lot of symbolism and a lot of depth. Even that most subtle thing can mean something huge. However‚ one of the least subtle themes in the Great Gatsby is the separation of social classes. There are different social classes that are represented in different ways which create distinct social classes; old money‚ the new money‚ and the no money

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    The Linguistic Style of F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby As The New Lexicon Webster ’s Dictionary of the English Language tells us‚ linguistics is the scientific study of language or languages whether from a historical and comparative (diachronic) or from a descriptive‚ structural (synchronic) point of view. Linguistics is concerned with the system of sounds of language; for example‚ sound change (phonology)‚ its inflections and word formation (morphology)‚ its sentence structure (syntax)

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    Published in 1925‚ The Great Gatsby became an immediate classic and propelled its author to fame. The novel captured the spirit of the "Jazz Age‚" a post−World War I era in upper−class America. However‚ Gatsby expresses more than the exuberance of the times. It depicts the restlessness and corruption that pervades the novel and "infects" the story and its hero too. Because the novel is not just about one man‚ James Gatz or Jay Gatsby‚ but about aspects of the human condition of an era‚ and themes

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    Gatsby is an irrepressible dreamer who lives an extravagant life style but this persona is completely his own invention. He actually grew up poor and even changed his name to get away from his past. As you read in the book‚ you will find that the one reason he goes and tries to prosper is because he wanted to marry a girl called daisy but he couldn’t because he was poor. That’s were his dream comes in. Because he was born into a poor life‚ his dream was that he could one day become rich.

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    unattainable; thus‚ one may often compromise or modify his dream in order for it to match or perhaps justify the practical. This imperfect reality generates an unattainable dream. Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby permits Gatsby to imagine that which will never exist. When his reality and fantasy collide in such a way‚ his fantasy perishes‚ and additional conflicted dreams and imperfect reality ensue. Gatsby’s passion is an exercise in futility because

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    In the novel the Great Gatsby‚ the character Jay Gatsby is defined and clarified by the way that he faces external forces. Gatsby’s goal was to get Daisy at all cost‚ so he did everything to do so and this corrupted him. A lot of people seen Gatsby as a mysterious wealthy guy that they just attend his parties. But when Gatsby was faced with the problem that Daisy might not have loved him. Or she onced loved another man‚ a lot was revealed about Gatsby. It was shown that Gatsby was just another

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