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    Daisy in the great gatsby

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    VNU‚ Hanoi English Literature Mid-Term Assignment Daisy Buchanan: A selfish‚ greedy and hurtful woman of a noble social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Winter 2014 Ha T.T. Nguyen hanguyenyeume94@gmail.com One of the reasons contributing to the success of F.Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby is that the author cleverly builds a network of diverse and profound characters. One of those is Daisy Buchanan‚ who is round and dynamic with various aspects

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    who were neglected‚ oppressed and socially unaccepted by the elite community. The era of 1900’s‚ Societies expectations towards women‚ are to express their beauty‚ and were objects towards society. F.Scott Fitzgerald supports this statement with his set piece novel‚ The Great Gatsby which was written during 1925 that signified as the Roaring Twenties. The 1900’s came with great economic prosperity‚ which lead to people living luxurious lives‚ and throwing lavish parties. That specific time period‚

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    In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald describes numerous messages that are vital to the novel. In The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is this mysterious character that spends his entire life trying to win over the love of his life Daisy Fay. But‚ Gatsby fails and his dreams are crushed which leads to a series of disastrous events. Because of characters’ tragic deaths‚ Fitzgerald makes it prominent that the American Dream is unachievable and it can ultimately lead to one’s destruction. Jay

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    say in relationships and as citizens. The sources The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ “Our Deportment‚ or the Manners‚ Conduct‚ and Dress of Refined Society‚” by John H. Young‚ and‚ “HeForShe: Gender Equality is Your Issue‚ Too‚” by Emma Watson emphasize differences in gender roles and stereotypes as time has progressed. Based on the novel‚ essay‚ and speech‚ genders are stereotyped differently and their

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    "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a widely considered masterpiece of American literature. Set in Long island‚ 1922‚ The Great Gatsby portrays a time in which massive war-born wealth and cheap liquor give birth to the great American party period‚ where booze and bobbed hair reign supreme in newly rich New York. This sets the scene for the tragic love story between " The golden girl"‚ Daisy Buchanan and war hero‚ James Gatz (Gatsby). The Great Gatsby is an interesting novel due to the ideas

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    Flaws In The Great Gatsby

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    thinking and attitude. So‚ what are the great flaws in the character of main characters and how this lead Gatsby walk into the depths of despair? Let’s start from Gatsby. Gatsby is a typical representative who tries all his life to pursue “the American dream”. First of all‚ what he followed is not “reality principle” but “pleasure principle”. That means ephemeral and harmful pleasant sensation and satisfaction happened in front of him is the only thing which he lays emphasis on. The root of his pleasant

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    men‚ for they may act on their dreams with open eyes‚ to make them possible.” In The Great Gatsby‚ the central theme is realizing that creating your own dreams and living in your reality is extremely different. Myrtle dreamt of having money‚ yet knew Tom would never leave Daisy‚ Gatsby dreamt of being with the Daisy he created‚ but realized she had changed‚ and Daisy dreamt of being in love and being with Gatsby‚ but would NEVER leave Tom. Myrtle Wilson desires one thing in life‚ money. She lives

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    The Great Gatsby Theme

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    Calves In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald the characters idolize one another’s images and social class; which in part is determined by one’s education. The main character Gatsby is critiqued by many different people throughout the novel for who he is‚ where he came from‚ what he owns‚ and how he managed to obtain it. The Golden Calves in the lives of the people in west pertain to an image one must uphold. Education is an idol worshipped by the characters in The Great Gatsby. The people

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    In many times‚ directors chose to translate a novel to movie; some of great novels are already a great story for the film. One of the famous novel in last century about the fall of American Dream was The Great Gatsby. And as other novels‚ hollywood had produced two recently translated movies. The older version was directed by Jack Clayton on 1974 and the newer version by Baz Luhrmann on 2013. Though they had produced with a gap of 39 years‚ both were able to compared each other and with novel.

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    The Great Gatsby Metaphors

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    autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever.” His choice of this particular metaphor suggests how he relates the situation to a military base. Explain the two conflicting attitudes the narrator has

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