Dr. Eckleburg of The Great Gatsby
Throughout the course of events in The Great Gatsby, the watchful eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg stare into the depths of each character, while the Doctor serves as a god of conscience from his middle ground between two worlds. As the creations of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the characters whose stories unwind before us live twisted webs of lives in which there is a distorted view of a greater force outside their worlds. Dr. Eckleburg merely watches over the "grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it" at the spot where "when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour" (27-8). This is where Dr. Eckleburg reigns; this is the site of a final...
Doctor Eckleburg of The Great Gatsby. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Reading through the novel The Great Gatsby, it becomes evident that Dr. Eckelberg symbolizes God and oversees events that occur. The characters in the novel often refer to "the eyes of Dr. Eckelberg". Doctor T.J. Eckleburg symbolizes three things. He symbolizes the corruption of society; his eyes represent the eyes of an omnipotent God, and he implies carelessness and mistreatment. & nbsp; The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
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Who was King Arthur? Most people would tell of a great King; a devoted circle of heroic knights; mighty castles and mightier deeds; a time of chivalry and courtly love; of Lancelot and Guinevere; of triumph and death. Historians and archaeologists, especially Leslie Alcock, point to shadowy evidence of a man who is not a king, but a commander of an army, who lived during the late fifth to early sixth century who may perhaps be the basis for Arthur. By looking at the context in which the stories of King Arthur survived, and the evidence pertaining to his castle Camelot and the Battle of Badon Hill, we can begin to see that Arthur is probably not a king as the legend holds.
Fiehn, Terry, and Chris Corin. Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin. London: John Murray, 2002. Print.
After Vladimir Lenin, a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist, died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals and won the control of the Communist Party. In the tardy 1920’s he became dictator of the Soviet Cumulation. Then he wanted to industrialize the country because at the time the economic was farming. Millions of farmers reluctant to be apart of Stalin’s orders and were killed as penalization. The civilization led a widespread famine across the Soviet Coalescence and killed millions of people. Stalin wanted to kill anyone who opposed him of his orders. He engendered an army of secret police, and inspirited citizens to spy on others which had many people killed or sent to a labor camp. Virtually everyone around Stalin was considered a threat to him, even the Communist Party, the military, and components of the Soviet Coalescence society, s...
Malory, Thomas, and Keith Baines.Malory's Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table. 1962. Reprint, New York: New American Library, 2010.
The Great Gatsby is Not The novel has no plot to mention. . The book is sensational, loud, blatant, ugly, pointless. There seems to be no reason for its existence: Harvey Eagleton (Dallas Morning News, May 10, 1925). F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered a romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.
Some of the scholars from today believe that Nefertiti died but there are others that believe that she became a Pharaoh after her husband died because her husband always made her his equal, so when he died people of that time assumed that she became the Pharaoh Smenkhkare (Nefertiti Biography). Nefertiti’s name means that of “a beautiful woman has come” (Nefertiti Biography) and later on when her husband changed Egypt’s God Amon to Aten she added the name Neferneferuaten and her whole name meant, “Beautiful are the beauties of Aten, a Beautiful Woman has come” (Nefertiti). She was very powerful and people read about her in history books and when they go places they can learn about her in museums and in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin they have an entire room set aside for Nefertiti (Society for the Promotion). Her bust has her own room in the Egyptian Berlin Museum but its’ only company is by James Simon because he was the one that funded the excavations of Amarna, even though Ludwig Borchardt was the one that found the bust, and he divided the artifacts that his people found un Egypt. Some of the artifacts that were found in excavation were divided between Egypt and Germany so Nefertiti’s bust was then sent to Berlin (Society for the
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an extremely symbolic book with many various symbols, however the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are the most symbolic element. F. Scott Fitzgerald never makes a point of what the eyes symbolize, however, throughout the novel, he suggests that the eyes have a different meaning to everybody and have many different embodiments. The eyes embody the growth of commercialism, God, and show the corruption of people along with their recklessness.
Joseph Stalin is a polarizing figure. Decades after his death his legacy still continues to create debate about his tumultuous years as the leader of the Soviet Union. This is evident throughout the four documents while some praise Stalin as impeccable others criticize his policies and lack of political, economic, and social progress during his regime. Even though Stalin was behind various violations of human rights he was able to maintain the Soviet Union during a time of turmoil both domestically and internationally as a result he has earned notoriety as a great leader and advocate for Marxist ideology.
Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin were similar in what they claimed to be, but in actuality they were very different people. Although Stalin claimed that he followed Leninism, the philosophy that Lenin developed from Marxism, he often distorted it to follow what he wanted to do. While Lenin wanted to make a unified society without classes, with production in the hands of the people, while Stalin wanted to make Russia into a modern industrial powerhouse by using the government to control production. Lenin accomplished his goals through violence, because he thought achieving Communist revolution was worth using violence, with a ‘The ends justify the means’ mentality. Stalin also used violence to accomplish his goals, however Stalin used much more violence than was often necessary to accomplish his goals. Stalin continued even once he was successful in accomplishing those goals, as he did not stop hurting people, but if anything it gave him more power to hurt people even more. But, at the end of the day, although Lenin ruled for only a very short time, he did raise the standard of living, though there maintained a large amount of hardship. Stalin, however, transformed the USSR from a peasantry to an industrialized nation in less than a decade, he did it on the backs of his millions of victims, who died because of his harsh policies and many purges.
In brief, the world of The Great Gatsby can seem as sordid, loveless, commercial, and dead as the ash heaps presided over by the eyes of dr. T.J. Eckleburg. Indeed, this atmosphere is so essential that one of the alternate titles Fitzgerald considered was Among the Ash-Heaps and Millionaires.
The improvement of the economy was Stalin’s biggest priority. He intended to transform the soviet union into a superpower, equipping it with a huge industrial base. This radical change began in 1929 and continued until his death in 1953. The previous policy introduced by Lenin (NEP) allowed peasantry to attain a plot of land under licence, this policy had gained widespread support. However, a handful of people supported the idea of collectivisation particularly Trotsky. Stalin at first supported and favoured the continuation of the NEP. However by 1928 Stalin had reversed the policy, associating socialism in one country with collectivisation and industrialization.
According to most historians, “history is told by the victors”, which would explain why most people equate communism with Vladimir Lenin. He was the backbone of Russia’s communist revolution, and the first leader of history’s largest communist government. It is not known, or discussed by most, that Lenin made many reforms to the original ideals possessed by many communists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He revised Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles’ theories to fit the so-called ‘backwardness’ of the Russian Empire. Lenin’s reforms were necessary to carry out a socialist revolution in Russia, and the contributions he made drastically changed the course of history. It can be assumed that, the Soviet Union would not have been as powerful if it was not for Lenin’s initial advocacy of violence and tight organization.
Many people believe that King Arthur was a myth. Most people believe that King Arthur was a legend that was wrote down and was never a real person. “The reality, according to new research by a British academic, is that the legendary British figure of the 5th and early 6th century did exist but was a general rather than a monarch, fought all his battles in southern Scotland and Northumberland – and lived most of his life in Strathclyde.” This quote is from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-arthur-legendary-figure-was-real-and-lived-most-of-his-life-in-strathclyde-academic-claims-10483364.html. In this quote, they stated that there was never a person named Arthur who was a powerful king, but there was a famous general who helped lead to the rise of Britain.There were many people helped to the rise of Britain, but none of them were as powerful as the legend of King