Essays on The Great Gatsby

The well-known American Dream results from the desire to work hard in order to gain prosperity, freedom, or even a better life than one lives. In The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, set in the roaring twenties, a man named Jay Gatsby proves…

Tragic Heroes in The Great Gatsby and King Lear A tragic hero is doomed to misfortune not by moral corruption, but by a tragic error in their judgment. Every human, in some way, have their own tragic weaknesses or limitations in their personality. While Shakespeare’s…

Throughout the course we have touched on many topics that are within many famous works such as The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Lisa Bu’s Ted Talk demonstrates a relation to our course through dreams as dreams are…

How did Fitzgerald raise tension throughout the Chapter 7 of ‘The Great Gatsby’? Generally considered one of the finest novels by Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby explores the theme of roaring twenties and demonstrates the lack of morals in a superficially glittering world. Throughout the chapter…

Money, alcohol and power are aspects of the American Dream in the 1920’s, The Great Gatsby a fictional novel by, F. Scott Fitzgerald and the film by Baz Luhrmann depict, what life is like having all three. The novel and movie take place in New…

Introduction John Stoltenberg once said, ‘Finally, the dirty little secret about sexual objectification is that it is an act that cannot be performed with any attention to its ethical meaning.’ This quotation proves that even males can value women’s rights because women’s rights should be…

According to Aristotle, a Tragic hero is an exceptional being who possesses hamartia, a tragic flaw, which leads the hero to make fatal mistakes causing the hero to suffer which then ultimately leads to their own downfall. Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby,…

Tragic death of the millionaire Jay Gatsby Long island’s socialite got shot at in his swimming pool 23 July 1922 Clara Jones New York- The biggest socialite and businessman, Jay Gatsby died yesterday evening in his swimming pool at his mansion located in the East…

For The Great Gatsby, written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald and adapted in 2013 for the screen by Baz Luhrmann, fidelity and medium specificity play an important role. Thus, within this example, it can be seen that, by breaking from thematic fidelity and focusing…

Not everything is what it seems, and often we are fooled by the outside appearance of people, things or places. Authors often use contrast in their works such as white/black or good/bad to convey a meaning. Fitzgerald used the contrast between reality and illusion in…