Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Fahrenheit 451

During the course of the semester, I covered many topics during this class. These topics consist of; The Great Gatsby, The topic of Rationalism, Romanticism/transcendentalism, The crucible, and Fahrenheit 451. In this assignment, I was asked to summarise each topic with a single thing I could use to describe the meaning of the topic. I chose to summarise each topic in terms of a single quote. I chose quotes because of the open-mindedness of quotes. Everyone sees quotes differently, and they have different meanings for everyone. They are often used to express opinions, or public knowledge led to educate and inspire others.

The Great Gatsby: "They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think

They want to live their own lives and find themselves away from what they believe is the social tyranny of cities, and society altogether. To add to that, they also believe they can find themselves among nature and find what they were meant to do with their life. These people are called Transcendentalists.

The Crucible: “They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.” (-Angel Cox, A Day in the Dark) The rumors of witches among the town forced a investigation into witches. People began to abuse that power, and falsely accusing people of witchcraft, and got people killed because of whatever it was they did to them. There was no way to actually prove that they were not involved in witchcraft, so it was one person's word against the others. They set to rid the town of witchcraft, but the entire town was scared for their lives as an end