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    ‘A deeper understanding of aspirations and identity emerges from considering the parallels between the Great Gatsby and Browning’s poetry’. Compare how these texts explore aspirations and identity? Both the texts ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F.Scott Fitzgerald and ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning explore the ideas of aspirations and identity developing a deeper understanding of the texts. Both texts share these ideas through the characters and the values of idealism and hope

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    contradictory to his or her actions‚ thoughts and speech. For the essay question‚ we will be looking at mainly two books: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The River Between by Ngūgī wa Thiong’o. In these works‚ we will be focusing on two characters from each book: Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Nyambura and Waiyaki from The River Between. Daisy Buchanan is an example of a character that is very contradictory by nature because she is easily influenced by what other people

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    kills his brother‚ Hamlet Sr.‚ in the heat of desire to attain the throne and its associated privileges. The Roaring 20s inspired The Great Gatsby shows F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s take on self-interest as Jay Gatsby throws massive parties. While the guests and narrator think that the millionaire does so to entertain guests‚ he truly desires to selfishly attract Daisy Buchanan from across

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    that Gatsby fellow was killed. He was murdered. Rain and grey‚ I tell you. His life was taken by one Mr Wilson with a gun. Right in his pool‚ too! He died floating on the bright blue water of the extravagant pool in his back garden. Now the weather was not the same rain and grey… but the feeling that consumed me after I learnt of his unexpected demise. That feeling. That was exactly what one would call‚ “rain and grey.” Since that day five years ago‚ I have not spoken a word of that Gatsby. I did

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    Othello and Gatsby are both driven to make themselves heroic Othello was a reputable general in Venice Italy. His war s stories were heroic which his wife Desdemona used to love hearing. It was hard for Othello to accomplish these extraordinary difficult goals‚ because the people of Venice did not accept him for he was black. Desdemona’s father Brabantio could not withstand the fact she secretly married to a black man‚ but Iago is a character that could not stand Othello’s standing at all. Gatsby on the

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    The movie and the novel The Great Gatsby surprisingly contrast in many ways. This is surprising because with small changes between the two can cause some confusion to the audience. Small changes can have a huge effect on how the audience perceives both the novel and the movie. Although most of the time there is a purpose as to why the writer decides to make these subtle changes. While reading the novel and watching the movie The Great Gatsby one will notice they have differences concerning the beginning

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    There is a very fine line between nostalgia and obsessing on the past. Many people argue that one should not waste today reliving yesterday. Unfortunately‚ the human psyche is delicate and we need to process our past in order to move forward. For example‚ when mourning the loss of a loved one‚ most of us tend to be paralyzed or stuck in the past because we have to process what happened. How long it takes to move through the negative and positive events of the past is highly dependent on the individual

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    These are the cases in the novels The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This is the case with the main characters in each novel. Although everyone’s dreams may be a little different‚ there is one strong theme in each and every one. Hope. In The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men‚ every character has hope‚ whether it’s to get with the girl of his dreams‚ or live on a property with colorful rabbits. In The Great Gatsby‚ The main character Nick‚ and

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    Both the main characters in “The Painted Door” and The Great Gatsby have very eventful pasts. These characters falsely rely on the past to motivate them in their future actions.“The Painted Door” tells a story about a married couple named John and Ann‚ they live in an isolated farmhouse where they have minimum contact with other individuals besides themselves. A bad winter storm came upon the couple and John went to visit his father. As the day progresses Ann has many hours to be alone and think

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    Contrast: Daisy and Myrtle The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel features Jay Gatsby‚ George Wilson‚ Nick Carraway‚ Jordan Baker and Tom Buchanan along with many others to show the hopes‚ the struggles and the romance the characters went through each and every day. Due to the mixing of the two social classes: the rich and the poor‚ we learn about the causes and effects of what they face. In the book‚ two major characters that greatly influenced this story were Daisy Buchanan

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