Moral Integrity “I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles‚ the character of an honest man.” ~George Washington. The Oxford dictionary states that moral integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. Our moral principles are the values that influence the decisions we make‚ the actions we carry out‚ and form our character. To have good character and be a good person someone must have moral integrity
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Ifeanyi Onwuazo August 30‚ 2013 Mrs. Ballard P.6 Letter from Anne Bradstreet Dear mom I am contacting you to inform you about how I have had a misstep in the road. One summer night while I was sleeping I was wakened by a thunderous boom. I ran downstairs to check what was going on when all of a sudden I feel an immediate rise in temperature and light that almost blinded me. Before I could even turn on my house lights on I saw my living room on fire. I next saw the roof beginning to cave
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Demoniac Servant? Is there a specific reasoning for this? Compare and contrast Tom and Gatsby. Who do you think is a better man? If neither‚ explain why. Literary Device: Climax The climax of this novel is when the secret relationships are publicly revealed and addressed. Mr. Wilson finds out
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To start with‚ she thinks Gatsby is wealthy and falls in love with him. But realizing the fact that Gatsby can’t give her a luxurious life‚ she chooses Tom as her husband without any doubt. However‚ Gatsby’s appearing with historic fortune and his true love to her seems to make her moved‚ then she tries to recover the
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The Great Gatsby as a Satire Satire is an implement used by authors to point out a flaw of society or group of people in general. There are different levels of satire that the author can use. For example‚ the author may employ a type a formal satire known as Juvenalian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with anger and contempt for it in a bitter fashion. There is also the contrasting form of Juvenalian satire called Horatian satire. Here‚ the writer points out a subject with
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current‚ borne back ceaselessly into the past” The ending line in The Great Gatsby‚ spoken by the narrator Nick Carraway‚ who reflects upon Gatsby’s life‚ likening him unto a boat against the current of the times. Nick’s avid description of the hardships Gatsby faced has more dimension than the utter surface it surmises. Nick’s farewell is infused with Gatsby as a character that further examination pinpoints the underlying meaning that Fitzgerald clearly wrote. Gatsby’s life‚ his dreams‚ and his failures;
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Symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols‚ or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. Fitzgerald uses symbolism throughout The Great Gatsby to show many ideas of the 1920’s life and who Jay Gatsby and the other characters really are. The symbols that are most present are colors‚ the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg‚ and Gatsby’s books. Fitzgerald uses the symbols; colors‚ The billboard‚ and Gatsby’s book to show America its idea of money and people. Colors such as green
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For Jay Gatsby to turn out all right at the end as the narrator promises‚ he must first be erased of his obscenity and indeterminacy. Barbara Will‚ the author of The Great Gatsby and The Obscene Word‚ argues in her criticism that only then can Gatsby come to stand as the vision of Americanism and‚ inevitably‚ America itself. The sociological criticism discusses the novel as the product of its time period‚ focusing on the American isolationist movement of the early 1920s and how‚ through the characters
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to greed‚ similar to the characters in the Great Gatsby. Essentially the idea of an American Dream seems to promise that through hard work‚ anyone can succeed and live a happy life; however this dream can mean different things to different people. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ shows that not all American Dreams are ideal and can lead to corruption in one’s life. Through the characters of George Wilson‚ Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald symbolizes that chasing hollow
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Themes The American Dream On first glance‚ The Great Gatsby is about a romance between Gatsby and Daisy. The true theme behind this wonderful novel is not merely romance‚ but is also a very skeptical view of the extinction of the American dream in the prosperous 19s. This loss of the American dream is shown by Fitzgerald’s display of this decade as a morally deficient one. He shows its incredible decadence in Gatsby’s lavish and ostentatious parties. This materialistic attitude toward life
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