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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Comment on the American Dream in The Great Gatsby The American Dream can be perceived in a multitude of ways depending on one’s view of wealth; in the 1920’s, wealth meant nothing but how much material you could afford. F. Scott Fitzgerald comments on the change of the American Dream in The…

“Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.” This quote by Benjamin Franklin shows, like in The Great Gatsby, money can’t buy happiness. First, the author describes Tom Buchanan as the wealthiest character and the biggest…

Inevitable Death and Indifferent Life In Albert Camus’s novel, The Stranger, Meursault exhibits a consistent lack of emotional attachment and indifference towards feelings and relationships. This detachment extends to his mother, Maman, as he displays no emotional reaction upon learning of her death or attending her funeral. However, despite this apparent disconnection from Maman, Meursault…

In this poem, the writer shows the reader the horrors of war from a first-hand perspective. He uses many words linking to the weather in the poem, to show that the weather is just as bad as the Germans. He shows us this by saying that the army “attacks once more in ranks on shivers…

The Iliad is an Epic written by the Greeks, the story uses Greek Gods, and their powers to present the stories. Each story expresses many characteristics for each character in the story. In greek times, a person was judged by the characteristics that stood out about a person, because according to the greeks, if someone…

Introduction The Glass Menagerie is a dramatic play about human nature and the conflict between illusion and reality. An illusion is pretense and not reality. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams has made use of both reality and illusion together using conflict between them. Illusion is a misinterpretation of the facts. It is an opinion…

Two stories that share several similarities and differences are Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Both tales follow a male protagonist who undergoes extraordinary experiences that significantly impact his life. Furthermore, the protagonists’ experiences in both stories transform their beliefs, principles, and perceptions about the world and people around them….

The Franks were once just a normal family, but when Hitler came into power things took a turn for the worst. The Frank Family consisted of Anne, Margot, Otto, and Edith. They resided in Amsterdam during WWII. In fear for their lives from the Nazis the Franks went into hiding with the Van Daans. At…

“The Masque of the Red Death” is an elaborate allegory that combines objects in the story With visual descriptions to give focus to the readers imagination. In the story, a Price named Properso tries to evade the red death through isolation and seclusion. He hides behind the impenetrable walls of his castellated abbey and lets…

The thought-provoking book Lord of the Flies by William Golding tackles the frailty of civilisation and the underlying darkness of human nature. A group of young boys are abandoned on a remote island without adult supervision, which causes a slow decline into anarchy and brutality. Numerous people suffer terrible endings throughout the narrative, signifying the…