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    Gatsby Analytical Essay F. Scott Fitzgerald presents many themes in this novel‚ The Great Gatsby. One of the themes is that a person’s lies and deceitful actions expose each person’s disposition. This theme is developed throughout the book by Fitzgerald implementing deceptive natures of characters in the time period 1920’s. The motif of cheating represents the shallow quality of the character’s lives‚ indicating the emptiness of the American Dream. The first reference demonstrating the link between

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    and every one serves a purpose and is extremely important to the concept of the story. They are not only used to tell the story‚ but to represent certain ideas and themes the author is trying to portray. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ he uses a variety of character types to do just that. The characters in The Great Gatsby give the novel diversity and help show Fitzgerald’s prominent ideas about the sinfulness‚ and the integrity of human nature in their own ways. A few characters

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    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920s‚ a time of glamour and exuberance in which Fitzgerald has cleverly weaved the theme of deception into with the wiring of this novel. Many of the characters in this work lie‚ but one character specifically brings this theme into importance: Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s very blatant lies are told for his purposes of self-improvement and wooing Daisy Buchanan‚ two noteworthy motives of the deceptions that form the basis of this novel. Gatsby’s

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    Great Expectations Essay Are Great Expectations and ambitions always destined for everyone? In Great Expectations‚ the central recurring theme is that affection‚ loyalty‚ and inner worth is more important than a progressive increase in wealth and social status. Dickens makes this theme evident through the interactions of the characters‚ and by discovering the idea of wealth and self-improvement (specifically in social classes). The thesis can be discovered in situations such as Pip’s awareness

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    The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of Motif Many themes were shown by F. Scott Fitzgerald from the novel‚ The Great Gatsby. One of the themes is that some of the people aren’t satisfied with the way they live. The motif of cheating provides a different viewpoint of the character and the way they think about themselves. The way a person acts is the way they are. The motif represents the differences between the characters social status‚ how they treat others and act around them tells the

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    The Great Gatsby can be condensed into the creation‚ the attaining and the loss of a man’s dream. But it delves into the roaring twenties and falls into a era with an almost dreamlike quality‚ where the parties are loud‚ the people fickle and the falls from grace are brutal. The Great Gatsby contains characters who we never truly meet‚ instead we meet their masks‚ masks which in turn are all either the source or object of one of the fatal flaws: love‚ lust and greed. Although the main theme of The

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ’gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters‚ such as Joe‚ Estella‚ and Magwitch provide Pip with a very important lesson; Your true friends will love and care for you no matter what happens or how much wrong you do to them. This life lesson Pip learns is one of the most important themes

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    A central revolving theme in The Great Gatsby is the virtue of honesty‚ at one point in the book Nick says "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known". Whether this statement is true or not is slightly questionable. There is no substantial evidence that convicts Nick of being a dishonest person and he seems to be pretty straight forward throughout the book. Towards his associates Nick is an honest person just trying to figure out this mystery of Gatsby‚ but in his need to figure out

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    The Great Gatsby was written by American Author in 1925 one of the literature’s most read book. Moreover‚ we see the lives of Nick Caraway a young man from Minnesota who moves to New York City to learn the bond business. Then meets Gatsby the man whose name is in the title a fabulously wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. Tom‚ Daisy‚ George‚ Myrtle‚ and many more characters are introduced. In the book‚ the author glamorizes the American dream by writing about Gatsby and how he

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    Gatsby Analytical Essay The Great Gatsby had many themes in this book. One of the themes is that a person’s social Determines on the weather of the day. This theme is shown during the book‚ showing the moods of each character. The motif shows how the character’s mood base of the weather. Weather is a motif that can be frequently and fundamentally used over the course of a novel. In many instances‚ weather can be a pace setter for the emotional tone of a certain time‚ such as on a rainy day the

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