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    preference for the leisure of the past‚ conveying the message that the rushed leisure of her time is hardly leisure at all. She accomplishes this by using several stylistic devices‚ including personification‚ imagery‚ and diction. <br> <br>The most obvious stylistic device used by Eliot is that of personification. She uses this device to create two people from her thoughts on old and new leisure. The fist person is New Leisure‚ who we can infer to be part of the growth of industry in the 19th century

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    Hope In the novel “The Great Gatsby”‚ written by Fitzgerald‚ hopefulness plays an immense role. Hope is something that Fitzgerald utilizes as what transfers characters and allows them to have the will to keep searching for their dreams and ambitions. What Fitzgerald shows that helps Jay Gatsby gain all his hope is the love he has for Daisy Buchanan and The Green Light. Fitzgerald reveals many obstacles Gatsby has to face in order to pursue his ambitions and also shows how he stays hopeful in order

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    The Great Gatsby Analysis

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    The subliminal collapse of self-morals is evident in The Great Gatsby through several of its characters and is mirrored in the east coast society of the twenties. The characters in The Great Gatsby though spoiled with riches‚ do not stray far from their self-serving goals to do anything other that to look out for their own self-interests. It seems as if no character in the book‚ besides Nick‚ ever give thought to the results of their actions beyond their own initial perceptions of the situation.

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    Some the literary elements that Poe uses in the bells are onomatopoeia‚ alliteration‚ assonance‚ repetition‚ and rhythm. Onomatopoeia which is the formation of word by imitation of a sound made or associated with its referent‚ it is used in line 3 with the phrase tinkle tinkle‚ tinkle. Alliteration is the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group‚ used in verse 2 lines 10 and 12 “frantic fire” and “desperate desire.” Assonance

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    Baker‚ who becomes a romantic interest. Later in the summer‚ Nick and Jordan meet over tea‚ and Jordan tells him that Jay Gatsby had met and fallen in love with Daisy before World War I‚ and soon the two fall in love again. On the drive home from a hotel‚ everyone but Gatsby and Daisy stumble upon a car accident in which Myrtle‚ Tom’s mistress‚ had been killed. Tom believes Gatsby had been driving‚ but Nick learns it was Daisy. Sometime later‚ Nick finds Gatsby’s body in his pool after being shot to

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    Past In The Great Gatsby

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    In the novel of the Great Gatsby the past come and hunt the characters that are present on the book. Many of them want to change the past‚ or they think that they can fight the present to change the past. In everyone’s life the past is a big problem because is something that you can not change‚ it can have a positive or a negative outcome‚ and in the Great Gatsby was a negative outcome. In the novel there is a character whose name is James Gatsby‚ he lives a healthy life in the West Egg‚ where next

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    The Geography and Setting of The Great Gatsby The geography in The Great Gatsby contribute to the setting‚ character development‚ and the tone of critical events. The setting is important because Fitzgerald uses setting to reveal character. Where people live determines what they do‚ telling the reader the kind of person they are. Weather often matches the emotional tone of events. The setting of The Great Gatsby is divided into four major areas: West and East Egg‚ the valley of ashes‚ and

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    destroying their own dreams. When Gatsby was trying to remake his past with Daisy‚ He messed up his own American-Dream‚ which was being successful. In Scott F. Fitzgerald’s Novel The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby past created an obsessive illusion‚ a vision of himself and Daisy living in a perfect world‚ in which lead him to destroy his own life. It is Gatsby’s ideas and illusions created by his past that blind him to reality. The authors use betrayal in the Great Gatsby to describe the characters to get

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    been unable to do so. Whitman wrote in an epic like proportions; he developed his own rhythmic structure‚ creating complex lines and stanzas. Whitman’s style of free verse becomes synonymous with his name and works‚ and helped distinguish him as a great American poet. By using free verse poetry‚ Whitman tore down the boundary and structure of traditional poetry with the rhythm of cadence‚ allowing all types of people to use poetry as a form of expression. Whitman’s poems tend to run on and on; there

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    novel The Great Gatsby the main character‚ Jay Gatsby is portrayed as a religious Saviour. The Saviour has to fall in a novel and Gatsby does. Gatsby is a model figure in the novel. He is considered royal. Jay Gatsby was born into a less wealthy family and had to make himself into something. In The Great Gatsby Judgement plays a big part. The novel shows the part of everyone that has spiritual emptiness. This novel portrays a lot of religious imagery. The savior in the story is Jay Gatsby‚ he is a

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