The ‘American Dream’ in The Great Gatsby It has been said that “people are so busy dreaming the American Dream‚ fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be‚ that they’re all asleep at the switch‚ [the American man has lost his focus]” <www.thinkexist.com>. What exists behind the vision of the American Dream is a paralleled unreality. Humans are dreamers‚ and desires often create beliefs in people’s minds that lead them to strongly believe in a successful outcome. Unfortunately
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The Great Awakening was one of the events that led up to the American Revolution. The Great Awakening was a religious revival swept through the British American colonies in the 1730’s. it starts with Jonathan Edwards who refused to convert to the church of England‚ and when George Whitefield‚ a minister from Britain‚ toured the American colonies shouting the word of god. George Whitefield converted slaves‚ even a Native American and many more to the church of England‚ which caused America to divided
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“The American Dream” is an idea that fills the minds of individuals seeking the “orgastic future”- a struggle to transform dreams into reality (www.americansc.org.uk). As the American Dream becomes tangible‚ the aspirations and taste for possible wealth in a new world begins to corrupt minds; people have fallen into a fantasy‚ confusing idealism with realism. This “Pursuit of Happiness”‚ once a solid symbol of equality‚ freedom and possibilities‚ has mutated into a materialistic monster of distrust
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Blue Gold This is a documentary about the ever increasing water crisis in our world today; what is causing it‚ the consequences‚ and how to stop it. Ecologists everywhere began to take notice of the “desertification” of our planet and the dire consequences ahead if it is not stopped. The urgency of this issue is one that cannot be brushed off because it is not us destroying solely the planet we live on‚ but destroying our chances of survival on it. Desertification of the earth is caused
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affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders‚” said F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the author of The Great Gatsby. After the World War I‚ abnormal economical success dominated over Americans‚ and caused amorality over the society. At that time‚ people pursued cheap pleasure and full of entertainments: parties‚ extravagance‚ and dissipation. The Great Gatsby describes that the Jazz Age through the protagonist‚ Jay Gatsby‚ who was in the lower class‚ struggles with Tom Buchanan
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the Pursuit of Happiness." This sentiment can be considered the foundation of the American Dream‚ the dream that everyone has the ability to become what he or she desires to be. While many people work to attain their American dream‚ others believe that the dream is seemingly impossible to reach‚ like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby examines the "Jazz-Age" generation’s search for the elusive American Dream of wealth and happiness and scrutinizes the consequences of that generation’s
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The Death of the American Dream in the Great Gatsby World War I brought out the deepest‚ darkest‚ most malignant tendencies of human nature. Young men died in the thousands on the battlefield‚ martyrs of a wanton cause. 1920’s American society mirrored the Great War’s atmosphere of excess. The newly wealthy class‚ in onslaught‚ threw lavish parties and indulged in sexual promiscuity as exorbitance became the new state religion. Traditional values‚ including that of the American Dream‚ seemed to
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The Gold Rush Of 1849 Would you travel‚ live‚ and work under harsh conditions for months to fulfill a dream? Thousands of gold hunters from all corners of the world did so in hopes of striking rich after a brief discovery of gold in the American territory of California. This huge worldwide flock of people became known as the California Gold Rush of 1849. The Gold Rush granted riches to and a handful of miners‚ but provided Americans as well as many foreigners a new homeland and life. At the start
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The American dream can be seen as what others not from America see commercialized as being great and everyone has money and no matter what they will be successful in the U.S. In the Great Gatsby we see a prime example of what this is in real life and what it really takes to become successful and gain money in the corrupt world. We see this in such situations of when Gatsby himself has become so successful and later in the book dies. This brings the idea of that Gatsby was able to achieve everything
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The American Dream in The Great Gatsby The American dream in The Great Gatsby seems at first to be just about money and material things‚ but the meaning becomes deeper when the clear meaning is the love that Gatsby has for Daisy and his quest to get her back. Gatsby has the life that most people would dream of‚ but he doesn’t have the only true thing that he wants. He uses material things and wealth to hopefully win his way back into daisy’s heart as he did once before. Gatsby has a house in West
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