Great Expectatons
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Great Gatsby
.... is also hypocritical because she hates careless people even though she is a careless driver herself.
Daisy Buchanan expresses her vanity in the words she says. For example, she once said, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and love everything," implying that she has been around the globe and seen everything there is to offer. She thinks that she can solve the problems of the world because she has gone to a few more places than other people have and that she knows more than other people do. H .....
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Great Gatsby 10
.... succeeded in the advertisement business and unwilling to live on his small salary, his fiancee, Zelda, broke their engagement. Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned to St. Paul to write his novel This Side of Paradise. The publication of This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920, made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York.
Literary critics were reluctant to accord Fitzgerald full marks as a serious craftsman. His reputati .....
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Great Gatsby 12
.... he speaks with. Nick’s carefulness when speaking and Tom’s Carelessness reveals a lot about their morality. It shows that Nick’s morals are high he can not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom’s morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. The carefulness of speaking shows the theme of morality because it reflects respect for humanity. With the realization that the way one wants to be treated he .....
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Great Gatsby 16
.... a rose and also by saying “I am p-paralyzed with happiness” (13). Nick seems most liked and accepted by Daisy, thus his descriptions appear to be genial and cordial often portraying her as a vibrant and beaming individual; “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth” (13-14). Daisy’s spoke with Nick in her “low, thrilling voice,” (13) which is compared with musical notes. Her charming and gay image is evoked thro .....
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Great Gatsby 7
.... and not of morality. Tom's downfalls show that although one can look to be living the American dream, it is not always true.
Perhaps the most honest and hard-working character in the novel is George Wilson, Myrtle's husband. Every day, he works at his garage, trying to scrape out a living and to achieve the American dream. Near the beginning of the novel, one finds out that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle. She is unhappy with her simple and honest life with her husband, so she attempts to find somet .....
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Great Gatsby 8
.... also based on this poem. After he had come back from the war, and found Daisy married to Tom, he dedicated his life towards his dream of having Daisy again. Everything he did from that point on was for her.
After making as much money as possible, Gatsby bought an elaborate house across the water from Daisy and Tom's dock, for the sole purpose of gazing upon the green light at the end of the dock. He through extravagant parties hoping she would someday show up. All of this is wearing the "gold h .....
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Great Gatsby 9
.... is also hypocritical because she hates careless people even though she is a careless driver herself.
Daisy Buchanan expresses her vanity in the words she says. For example, she once said, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and love everything," implying that she has been around the globe and seen everything there is to offer. She thinks that she can solve the problems of the world because she has gone to a few more places than other people have and that she knows more than other people do. H .....
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Great Gatsby And Money
.... is displayed, "It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before" (89). Soon, the reader comes to understand what makes Daisy's voice like this; "Her voice is full of money" (115). The truth of Gatsby's remark is immediately perceived, her voice is the key to all her magic. Daisy has an ulterior motive to just about everything she does; this motive is to gain money. Her voice carries the jingle of riches.
Tom is a man who is made out of and by money. Tom, being ra .....
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Great Gatsby Essay 2
.... have money, and are very expressive with it. Examples of this are Gatsby's expensive Rolls Royce and Tom's polo horses that he flew in from Chicago. Nick mentions that everybody had seen Gatsby's car (pg 63), pointing to the fact that Gatsby flaunted the vehicle and by association his wealth, and Tom flying in polo horses from another city would obviously be outrageously expensive. Other characters, such as Myrtle, lust for money. Essentially being of the middle class, Myrtle's attraction to Tom is not o .....
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Greek Actors
.... male and female, was made possible by the use of masks, which prevented the audience from identifying the face of any actor with one specific character in the play and helped eliminate the physical incongruity of men impersonating women. The masks with subtle variations also helped the audience identify the sex age and social rank of the characters. The fact that the chorus remained in the orchestra throughout the play, and sang and danced choral songs between the episodes. Allowed the actors to exit af .....
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Greek Gods
.... Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera. But Rhea hid the newborn in a cave on Mount Dicte in Crete. (To this day, the guides at the "cave of Zeus" use their flashlights to cast shadow puppets in the cave, creating images of baby Zeus from the myth.)
When he had grown up, Zeus caused Cronus to vomit up his sisters and brothers, and these gods joined him in fighting to wrest control of the universe from the Titans and Cronus, their king. Having deposed his father and the other Titans, Zeus imprisoned most of th .....
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Greek Gods
.... that popped up in the world around him than on understanding the world itself. In other words the Greeks were more interested in the workings of the mind than in the workings of the environment around them.
This was so because unlike us, the Greeks believed that they already had explanations for trivial questions such as, “Where the world came from?” “Who are we?” and “Who controls the world around us?” To them all these questions could simply be explained by looking .....
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Greek Gods 2
.... killing him. She got a gift that had Hines blood on it. Hines blood was a very poisonous blood. It can kill any mortal, even a half-mortal. Haties god of war, he starts wars and kills as many people as he can. He is a ruthless god. All the god’s helped mortals in one or another way, but they can also cause a lot of trouble. For example, Aphrodite started a war between two empires over this woman who was supposed to be more beautiful than her. Helena was the beautiful woman who was fought .....
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Greek Tragedies
.... a general theme. In the first couple acts the prologue or introduction, indicates the general nature of the play, chief characters, and theme. Usually in the second act are the more complications or development, in which difficulties are introduced. The middle of each play the crisis or turning point reaches their height and must turn over to better or worse. Than finally the conclusion or epilogue takes place which completes the happiness of the main characters in a comedy or a disaster in tragedy.
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