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    The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald conveys a strong message about how some people want to reach their dreams so badly that they don’t think of the consequences that could occur. Fitzgerald indicates how Gatsby believes excessively in his dreams with Daisy that it leads him to his death. This is shown when Nick is at Gatsby’s house and they’re talking about Daisy but then all of a sudden Gatsby starts looking around and acting different‚ “He looked around him wildly‚ as if the past were lurking here

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    How do the settings and sound portray the characters thoughts and feelings in ‘The Great Gatsby’‚ ‘King Lear’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’? Fitzgerald‚ Shakespeare and Miller explore both setting and sound within their writing to mirror the current thoughts and feelings of the character which then allows the audience to understand and sympathise the characters. It could be argued that through the use of setting and sound‚ the authors dramatically present the extent to which the protagonists have

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    In The Great Gatsby – The Death of the American Dream the uncredited author presents the idea that Fitzgerald aimed for his novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ to symbolise the death of the American Dream. I would however disagree with this statement‚ as I believe Fitzgerald wished to convey that the American Dream did not die during the 1920s: It never existed in the first place. The 1920s were just the era in which this became clear. Decadence‚ luxury‚ and extravagance are just three of the words used to

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    Failure From Unrealistic Desire In Death of a Salesman‚ an unrealistic desire for success and materialistic goods only has a negative impact in attitude. Willy buys new modern devices in order to find happiness through luxury‚ but these new objects only incite anger from Willy because of payments he has to make. Willy has a false idea of how to become successful through charisma‚ and he is crestfallen to see that Biff is unable to live out Willy’s successful ideal. Even Biff and Happy‚ Willy’s sons

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    Fatherhood Willy Loman‚ the main character in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller‚ has a powerful father role in the lives of his two sons‚ Biff and Happy.Willy‚ a man in his mid sixties‚ has not only strived to become a successful salesman‚ but also acts the successful father role‚ something that was lacked in his own childhood. Willy’s own actions and mistakes in his everyday lifestyle‚ influence Biff to believe that he has become a failure at the age of thirty-four. Happy‚ the younger of the

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel‚ however‚ encompasses a much larger‚ less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island‚ New York‚ The Great Gatsby is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole‚ in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an

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    Gatsby and the Complexity of the American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American dream in modern society‚ in which money and prosperity are significant factors and it may not be as simple as you think; and the movie Citizen Kane is another example of the complex issues relating to the American dream. First‚ we will explore the American dream‚ in which it is to make a great deal of money because it provides for a comfortable living‚ and characters in the novel

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    the American dream. According to the Author‚ the dream of Americans is dead .It is through his narration that the audience comes to terms with how modern values have AuthorLastName3 transformed the American dream’s pure deals into a scheme for gaining materialistic power‚ moreover‚ lack of any sense of morals by the society clearly comes up. Fitzgerald has presented the original aspects of the American dream together with its modern face in his bid to showing how the once impervious dream has vanished

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    A man who had a dream of becoming reunited with his true love‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ Jay Gatsby was determined to make this dream a reality no matter the trials and tribulations. He achieved all of his goals through hard work and determination with his love for Daisy being the driving force behind his motivation. The title “The Great Gatsby” is very suitable because Gatsby’s power to make his dreams a reality is what makes him “great”. Gatsby began as James Gatz‚ a young seventeen year old boy from North

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    you. I believe if you stick to a goal and fail‚ than you learn from your mistakes and do better the next time‚ and if you go after a goal and succeed‚ well that’s just the best feeling ever. 8.3.8 


At the start of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman‚ Biff is a very confused man who does not know what he has done with his life; but towards the end of it Miller shows that Biff has developed at the climax by having the outburst with Willy‚ and realizing not only who he is‚ but what he wants

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