Theme of Transformative Nature of Love in Sonnets from the Portuguese and The Great Gatsby
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Texts are cultural snapshots representing their era – they reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Two texts, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s (EBB) suite of Petrarchan form sonnet’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel “The Great Gatsby” explore the…