Both Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1924) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s (EBB) Sonnets from the Portuguese (1846) explore the concept of human aspirations; dealing with aspects of the desire to be loved, spiritual and physical fulfillment and disillusionment against mortality. These elements establish and affect the identities of individuals against different social contexts. Although The Great Gatsby develops a pessimistic and cynical viewpoint regarding to the nature of human aspirations which impacts our identity; Elizabeth Browning’s Sonnets juxtaposingly expose a more idealistic and optimistic side of aspirations where it is something that people can approach with sincerity and courage. In the Sonnets from the Portuguese, EBB writes a real and sincere love affair story; exploring the growing love for Robert Browning and reveals a personal, spiritualised illustration of her aspirations for what love should be. She idealised love …show more content…
The perception of love being portrayed as timeless is sustained throughout as in Sonnet LXIII ‘and if god choose, I shall but love thee better after my death,’ illustrating that love transcend into her spiritual realm. However, from the experience of loving, she understands that earthly love is mortal in Sonnet XIV ‘Do not say I love her for her smile - her look...for these things maybe changed,’ and that these human traits based on physical attraction are perishable, as conveyed in Sonnet XXII ‘with darkness and the death hour rounding it’. This negative imagery has provided experience and understanding for EBB, allowing her to shape her identity and accept the reality. Her realisation that love cannot be idealised, but a spiritual understanding that transcends the mortal realm allows the growth of the persona as she learn from her own experiences about the complex nature of
Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald, two different beings, one a book character, the other a human being but both are the same person. Jay Gatsby, as evinced by the the title, is the main character in The Great Gatsby. His goals and achievements is what the novel revolves around. Gatsby is the most interesting character which is why he leaves something to think about in everything he does in the book, but what makes him amazing are the parallels between him and Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby as a catalyst of his life in the novel.
Although both forms of poetry came about at the same time, they focus on different things. Allen Ginsberg focuses on social change as a beats writer while Robert Lowell, a confessional poet, is more descriptive about himself and the particular mind frame he is in.
The past and future to people are the most frightening thing. The past is what makes your future, or helps you fix your future and make it better. People sometimes stay in their past because they are too scared of the future and what their future is going to be like. The past is usually when all the good things happened to people, so they try and stay in the past but the point of the past is to have a plan for the future, and plan that will make your life better. The novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the film Chicago directed by Rob Marshall takes place in the 1920s and shows us how different we see life now, then how people saw life back then. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Gatsby wants to forget his past except for the fact that he still loves daisy, While Gatsby longs to re-create his past romance with Daisy and build a new future together. He tries to hide his past with non credible facts about his past in order to help his future become more successful. The Film Chicago which is very similar to The Great Gatsby because Roxie, has a bad past that puts her in a bad position, That finally put her on the new paper. Roxie only cares about fame and money and attempts to break free from her marriage to build a future for herself.
The Great Gatsby is one of the most known novel and movie in the United States. Fitzgerald is the creator of the novel The Great Gatsby; many want to recreate his vision in their own works. Being in a rewrite of the novel or transforming literature in cinema. Luhrmann is the most current director that tried to transform this novel into cinema. However, this is something many directors have tried to do but have not succeeded. Luhrmann has made a good triumph creating this movie. Both Fitzgerald’s and Luhrmann’s approach to The Great Gatsby either by using diction, symbolism, transitions from one scene to another, and color symbolism usage in both the text and the movies; illustrate how Daisy and Gatsby still have an attraction for one another, and how they might want to rekindle their love.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was known as an American short story writer and novelist. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He made his first successful novel, which made him famous and later married the woman that he loved. Shortly after, he constantly began to drink and his wife had a mental breakdown. In 1922, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in order to become a scriptwriter. He passed away due to a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 44, before he passed, he was in the process of finishing his final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, which was never completed. One of his well-known novels, The Great Gatsby, had a variety of different themes and similarities to his life that he included in his novel. He wrote The Great Gatsby to express themes with illusion and deceptions.
Often times, films are depicted differently from the detailed and very explicit writing of authors in most novels. “The Great Gatsby”, whether referring to the novel or the film, is a story which depicts themes of love and lust, dishonesty, persistence, and prosperity. These overarching themes are exhibited in both the film and the novel through the words and actions of the main/essential characters. On the contrary, some of the key elements in the story can be illustrated in different fashion when comparing the film to the novel. These differences and also similarities can be shown through the character analysis, the T.J. Eckleburg billboard, and the third party thrown by Gatsby.
Socialite parties are extravagant, as they are often full of famous people, dancing, drinking, and a lack of worries. This is why the attendees of Jay Gatsby’s parties always had fun, because they could live larger than life without the fear of consequence. This theme is greatly explored in the movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby. But this was not the intended theme in the novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Due to the different capabilities of film and literature, the themes of the novel and movie versions of The Great Gatsby differ.
The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which takes place in the roaring 20’s. This novel is about Jay Gatsby and his love for a beautiful woman named Daisy. In the novel and the movie the story is being narrated by Nick Carraway, a friend to Gatsby and a cousin to Daisy. I will be comparing the similarities and differences between the novel and the movie.
Love is the ubiquitous force that drives all people in life. If people did not want, give, or receive love, they would never experience life because it is the force that completes a person. Although it often seems absent, people constantly strive for this ever-present force as a means of acceptance. Elizabeth Barrett Browning is an influential poet who describes the necessity of love in her book of poems Sonnets from the Portuguese. In her poems, she writes about love based on her relationship with her husband – a relationship shared by a pure, passionate love. Browning centers her life and happiness around her husband and her love for him. This life and pure happiness is dependent on their love, and she expresses this outpouring and reliance of her love through her poetry. She uses imaginative literary devices to strengthen her argument for the necessity of love in one’s life. The necessity of love is a major theme in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” and “Sonnet 29.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed exemplify the desire for one to aspire to the unreliable expectations of love and desire, equality and opportunity, and desire and wealth set by the American Dream in order to combat the reality of one’s past to build his or her future.
In the novel, the Great Gatsby and the short story, America and I, the American Dream is portrayed as constructive. In the Great Gatsby, the American Dream is symbolized as being a successful businessman and having lots of money. On a similar note, the story America and I shows the American Dream as a chance to come to the land of the free and the brave to work for your money while also have rights as a citizen. Both of these literature pieces offer the same view of the American Dream while following two different stories as they discover America. The American Dream is portrayed as constructive in three key ways which are working hard for money, being happy, and being able to build a life from nothing.
As an American citizen we seem to make presumption that all cultures are different from ours, and some might even call those cultures weird. Americans fail to realize just how similar we are to these “weird” cultures. By reading Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe and The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald , it makes the reader realize how similar the African culture is from the American culture. There 's those obvious differences we already knew about with the two cultures, but readers can learn that not just American culture value men and give them advantages, but many cultures including 1900 's African culture. In both books we come across two main characters that is portrayed as being more superior compared to others. Okonkwo, main
Essay 4: Comparative Analysis of Two Texts When comparing two texts, one must look at the characters and themes to find similarities and differences and we see a similarity with the theme of accepting reality in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby. There are differences in both texts with the way the characters fight reality, but the outcome is the same. The power of love in both texts is looked at as more important than social priorities and the main characters will do anything to get what they want and it results in death. One might come to conclusions to say that F. Scott Fitzgerald based the relationship of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan on Romeo and Juliet, seeing that both stories have characters who do not accept the reality and in their minds, love overpowers everything. When looking at these two texts side to side, one would notice many similarities in the actions of the main characters.
In “Sonnet XVII,” the text begins by expressing the ways in which the narrator does not love, superficially. The narrator is captivated by his object of affection, and her inner beauty is of the upmost significance. The poem shows the narrator’s utter helplessness and vulnerability because it is characterized by raw emotions rather than logic. It then sculpts the image that the love created is so personal that the narrator is alone in his enchantment. Therefore, he is ultimately isolated because no one can fathom the love he is encountering. The narrator unveils his private thoughts, leaving him exposed and susceptible to ridicule and speculation. However, as the sonnet advances toward an end, it displays the true heartfelt description of love and finally shows how two people unite as one in an overwhelming intimacy.
During the course of Edmund Spencer’s Amoretti, the “Petrarchan beloved certainly underwent a transformation” (Lever 98); the speaker depicts the beloved as merciless and is not content with being an “unrequited lover” (Roche 1) as present in a Petrarchan sonnet. Throughout Sonnet 37 and Sonnet 54, the speaker provides insight into the beloved not seen within the Petrarchan sonnets; though the speaker does present his uncontrollable love for the beloved, he does so through his dissatisfaction with his position and lack of control. In Sonnet 37, the speaker describes the beloved as an enchantress who artfully captures the lover in her “golden snare” (Spencer, 6) and attempts to warn men of the beloved’s nature. Sonnet 54, the speaker is anguished by the beloved’s ignorance towards his pain and finally denies her humanity. Spencer allows the speaker to display the adversarial nature of his relationship with the beloved through the speaker’s negative description of the beloved, the presentation of hope of escaping from this love, and his discontent with his powerlessness. Spencer presents a power struggle and inverted gender roles between the lover and the beloved causing ultimate frustration for the speaker during his fight for control.