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    Macbeth that no man born from woman can harm him and Macbeth thinks that he is safe and that no one can overthrow him. The third and final apparition is a Child crowned‚ with a tree in his hand that said "Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against

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    American dream on the Great Gatsby - What can we learn from the Great Gatsby? References Nick Carraway  Novel’s narrator‚ from Minnesota  Educated at Yale  Fought in W.W.I  Learns bond business.  Honest‚ tolerant  Gatsby’s neighbor Nick Carraway by Tobey Maguire‚ the Great Gatsby movie 2013 Jay Gatsby  Protagonist  Fabulously wealthy  Has opulent mansion on Long Island 

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    Summer Project 2012- “The Great Gatsby”: FULL SUMMARY OF “THE GREAT GATSBY”: During the 1920’s era‚ within the various movements of prohibition‚ women’s rights‚ and the Jazz Age‚ F Scott Fitzgerald bore a timeless novel by the name of “The Great Gatsby.” The predominant character‚ Nick‚ who duals as narrator‚ is indecisive but thoughtful. He lives in West Egg on Long Island Sound‚ amidst the aristocratic air and luxurious titles. Gatsby‚ Nick’s neighbor‚ whose affairs apart from his parts

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    The Great Gatsby: Prohibition The Great Gatsby is set in 1920’s which is the heart of the gangster era in America. Along with gangsters comes organized crime specifically bootlegging alcohol during prohibition. Prohibition was brought about in 1920 by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution‚ and it ended in 1933‚ it was ratified by the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution. Bootlegging in the 1920’s is the way many people got rich‚ including the main character in The Great Gatsby‚ Jay

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    influencing the plot of The Great Gatsby. The first relationship introduced in the novel is Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Tom is a very powerful domineering man‚ very self-centered and self-absorbed. While Daisy is a charming‚ beautiful lady‚ with a thrilling voice‚ she is very self-centered as well. Tom and Daisy’s relationship is undergoing stress. When Daisy notices that her finger is hurt she says‚ "You did it‚ Tom… That’s what I get for marrying a brut of a man‚ a great big hulking physical specimen

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    Ebb and the Great Gatsby

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    1925 American‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in 1922‚ a time period commonly referred to as the ‘the Roaring twenties’ or the ‘jazz age’. This period in American history reflects the extremities of both romanticism and materialism‚ as well as a time of prosperity and the classic ‘American dream’ due to the conclusion of world war one. Love‚ hope and morality are reflected through the naivety of the time. Although a time of great societal change‚ 1840’s England still held traditional

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    In this article‚ Barry Gross talks about The Great Gatsby as one of the colossal disastrous works of American writing. He trusts that the durable advance of Gatsby lies‚ partially‚ in the American peruser’s ready response to the novel’s disastrous legend. The Great Gatsby was distributed in 1925 and has turned into a social archive. Gross incorporates into the paper that Nick perceives everything in telling the story from his discernment and how Gatsby is a disastrous legend in the novel. A collection

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    to do." supercilious (adj) - arrogant‚ contemptous "Wilson’s mother which hoveblue like an ectoplasm on the wall. His wife was shrill‚ languid‚ handsome‚ and horrible. She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundblue and twenty-seven times since they had been married. " -Pg. 30 ectoplasm (n) - a gel substance held to produce spirit materialization "I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight‚ but each time I tried to go I became entangled

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus‚ The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence‚ idealism‚ resistance to change‚ social upheaval‚ and excess‚ creating a

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    Nick Carraway says “Dishonesty in a woman is never a thing you can blame deeply” In light of this comment‚ discuss how Fitzgerald presents the female characters in The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses the characters of Daisy Buchanan‚ Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson in his novel‚ ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ to portray his view on the changing morals and nature of women in 1920’s America. At a time surrounding the height of decadence and hedonism after the First World War‚ it is inevitable that the females

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