scholarly journals The Power of Hegemonic Classes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-306
Author(s):  
Hasnul Insani Djohar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society

Topik dari tulisan ini adalah untuk membahas kajian budaya dengan berfokus pada hegemoni budaya, memperkenalkan gagasan dari kelompok yang berkuasa untuk mengontrol masyarakat.  Tulisan ini akan mengangkat isu bagaimana kelas-kelas yang menguasai hidup pada tahun 1920an. Tujuan dari tulisan ini adalah untuk menganalisis The Great Gatsby karya Scott Fitgerald untuk menyimpulkan tentang gambaran kelas dan kekuatan aristrokrasi untuk mendominasi kelompok yang tidak berkuasa, dengan menggunakan kajian budaya, dari teori hegemoni Antonio Gramci. Secara khusus, penelitian ini berfokus pada perjuangan Jay Gatsby untuk menghadapi hegemoni kelompok aristokratik, yang kekuasaannya sangat berpengaruh. Dalam cerita tersebut, kelompok kaya baru, yang diwakili oleh Jay Gatsby, hidup di daerah West Egg, sementara kelompok aristokratik, yang diwakili oleh Tom Buchanan, tinggal di East Egg. Tom selalu menjadi pemenang karena dia datang dari kelompok aristokratik, yang keluarganya sangat berpengaruh. Oleh karena itu, Gatsby selalu kalah dalam persaingan melawan Tom walaupun sebesar apapun Gatsby berkuasa. Dengan mempelajari perjuangan Gatsby dalam novel ini, kita mendapatkan sebuah pemahaman yang lebih baik bagaimana kelompok yang lemah, bukan hanya di masyarakat Amerika, tetapi juga masyarakat lain di dunia juga akan berjuang untuk berkompetisi dengan kelompok aristrokratik.---Abstract The topic of this paper is the pursuit of cultural studies focusing on cultural Hegemony, introduces the notion of the dominant groups’ power to control society. It will also raise the issue of how hegemonic classes live in 1920s. The objective is to analyze, using cultural studies, Antonio Gramsci’s Hegemony, Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in order to come to some conclusions about depictions of aristocratic classes and powers in order to dominate powerless groups. Specifically, the research focuses on Jay Gatsby’s struggles to face the hegemony of aristocratic groups, whose affluent supremacy. In the story, the new moneyed group, represented by Jay Gatsby, lives in West Egg while the aristocratic group, represented by Tom Buchanan, lives in East Egg. Tom is always the winner because he comes from the aristocratic groups, whose prestigious family. Therefore, Gatsby always loses compete against Tom no matter how hard Gatsby tries. By learning Gatsby’s struggle in this novel, we gain a better understanding of how other powerless groups, not only in American society, but also other society in the world, who also struggle to compete with the aristocratic groups.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Catherine Keyser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In The Great Gatsby (1925), Nick Carraway gazes upon the New York City skyline: Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty of the world....

scholarly journals The Reflection of the Era of the “Roaring Twenties“ in the F.S.Fitzgerald’s Novel «The Great Gatsby»

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
A. Diadechko
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

The article deals with the portraying “Roaring Twenties” which marked a legendary and unprecedented period in the history of American society. Though this era goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, it has never stopped arousing deep common interest because of its uniqueness. Having been abundantly reflected in numerous pieces of art and literature, “Roaring Twenties”, synonymously named “The Jazz Age”, go on provoking public discussion and reevaluation. If viewed in literary terms, this epoch is certainly linked with the name of Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and with his best known novel “The Great Gatsby” filmed five times. The writer is considered to be one of the best chronicler of the American 1920s. Fitzgerald’s masterpiece had embodied many symbols and icons of America which travelled though one hundred years and still feature contemporary society. The articles attempts to outline extra-lingual information and data that shape the temporal and cultural background of the novel. It aims at providing the readers with sufficient additional information that may significantly enlarge on the novel context grasping. It proposes a detailed description and interpretation of symbols and markers of the American 1920s which typically feature “Roaring Twenties” and the ways they are projected onto Fitzgerald’s story. In particular, the focus is made on American Dream doctrine, New York of the 1920s, the conflict between “the old money” and “the new money”, feminism and fashion, alcohol and crime, music, cars. Some parallels between the author’s life story and his characters are also specified.

Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Justin Driver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American West ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
American Society ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter juxtaposes the tales of two ambitious men, both born in the American West, who moved east to New York in an effort to make names for themselves during the 1920s. The ambitions of Jay Gatsby—as recounted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—and William O. Douglas—as recounted in his autobiography, Go East, Young Man—led the two men in very different directions. Where Gatsby turned to lawlessness, Douglas instead turned to law. The distinct journeys and distinct fates that Gatsby and Douglas experience yield insight into the significance of class within the United States, and also offer significant complications of the American Dream.

scholarly journals Narrators' Credibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Raad S. Rauf ◽  
Krm E. Danail
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The World ◽  
Methods And Techniques

The debate on the reliability of the story teller or narrator in fiction writing is so intense to the degree of controversy. Ever since the early stages of fiction writing, most of the novelists seek new methods and techniques in writing their stories. Some of them have achieved success and became known worldwide, and their works have become masterpieces and essential landmarks in the world of fiction. These works have been among the curricular subjects taught in the most esteemed universities in the world. These eminent works have mostly been tackled thematically by reason of the novelty and importance of their themes, yet there are only a handful critiques on their technical aspects, style, diction being used, or narrative methods. This is a comparative study of some of such works like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in comparison with some other works such as Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights.

scholarly journals Ideological Morality, Generality, and Particularity of Pip and Gatsby in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Shaghayegh Moghari
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The World ◽  
Gayatri Spivak

‘Subaltern’ and ‘other’ are the two labels that are attributed to the weaker members of the society and the whole world in general sense in terms of color of the skin, the gender, the financial conditions, and the social status. This study attempts hard to defend the characters of Pip and Gatsby who were considered as ‘subaltern’ and ‘other’ by the unjust society and system around them and as a result, though they attained the wealth they always dreamed of, they failed to attain a good life that they deserved. Even Pip, who succeeded in marrying his beloved, cannot be regarded as a lucky guy because he was able to have her only after a divorce that she experienced in her first marriage; so, this cannot be taken as a success for Pip. The following issues will be expanded and examined in details to clarify the way the present researcher has always tried to encourage the world around her to treat the weaker better, and also to convert the world into a better place to live by enjoying equal rights for all: Gayatri Spivak, the voice of the voiceless, ‘Other’ and ‘subaltern’ in Pip and Gatsby, and the unfair oppression of the world against the so called ‘other’ and ‘subaltern.’

scholarly journals Presidential Address Kidney Week 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1213-1219
Author(s):  
Mark E. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Care Delivery ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Policy Science ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
American Society ◽  
Science Innovation ◽  
Kidney Health

The American Society of Nephrology Presidential Address was delivered by Mark Rosenberg at Kidney Week 2019 on November 7, 2019 in Washington, DC. The Address describes a remarkable alignment—a syzygy of policy, science, innovation accelerators, clinical trials, clinical care delivery, and activated patients—that exists today in the kidney space. As a community, we must ensure that the strategies developed to take advantage of this alignment, such as Advancing American Kidney Health, succeed. We must overcome our current challenges to thrive as a meaningful specialty. We have an incredible opportunity to come together as a kidney community to ensure success that realigns the priorities and incentives in kidney medicine to better achieve kidney health for all people throughout the world. The time is now to act.

scholarly journals Hostility in the American Dreams: A Study of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ms. Tania Saggi ◽  
Dr. Yogesh Chander Sood ◽  
Dr. Ram Krishan
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The People ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Spiritual Satisfaction ◽  
American Society

Fitzgerald’s dominant theme in The Great Gatsby is the American Dream which has driven the people berserk leading to cleavages in the society.. This paper precisely focuses on 20th century corruption of original Idealistic American dreams. It deals with the American society dreams reflected as more of materialistic possessions than idealism and spiritual satisfaction. It takes up Gatsby’s struggle showing the seeds of future fructification. As a representative of fate, Gatsby strives to get his love and reach his career. The paper depicts his strong determination of reaching his goals. The materialism of this period of time in America corrupted the American dreams with much focus on gaining wealth and power. The so-called Jazz Age of 20’s   compelled the life of Fitzgerald to deal with social imbalances calling for urgent attention. Tanfer Emin tersely comments on Gatsby’s “ hidden violent nature. . . .Driving his instinctual self for possession.”   .   This paper also covers some facts like greatness of Gatsby which drove him to give his all to achieve his love. He reached the heights of riches just for his love. Gatsby’s death can be compared with death of Jesus. The way he spent his whole life struggling for career is a milestone.  When he finally meets his love , the surrender of  his life for love is another height he attains .

Comparing Comparisons: Political Implications of Different Notions of Difference

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Glenn Odom
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
Location Point

With the rise of the American world literature movement, questions surrounding the politics of comparative practice have become an object of critical attention. Taking China, Japan and the West as examples, the substantially different ideas of what comparison ought to do – as exhibited in comparative literary and cultural studies in each location – point to three distinct notions of the possible interactions between a given nation and the rest of the world. These contrasting ideas can be used to reread political debates over concrete juridical matters, thereby highlighting possible resolutions. This work follows the calls of Ming Xie and David Damrosch for a contextualization of different comparative practices around the globe.

The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition'

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cook ◽  
Nu'aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
To Come

“The Book of Tribulations by Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi (d. 844) is the earliest Muslim apocalyptic work to come down to us. Its contents focus upon the cataclysmic events to happen before the end of the world, the wars against the Byzantines, and the Turks, and the Muslim civil wars. There is extensive material about the Mahdi (messianic figure), the Muslim Antichrist and the return of Jesus, as well as descriptions of Gog and Magog. Much of the material in Nu`aym today is utilized by Salafi-jihadi groups fighting in Syria and Iraq.

The 1970s

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Borstelmann
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
Free Agency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
American Society

This book looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, this book creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. It demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more—and less—equal. This book explores how the 1970s forged the contours of contemporary America. Military, political, and economic crises undercut citizens' confidence in government. Free market enthusiasm led to lower taxes, a volunteer army, individual 401(k) retirement plans, free agency in sports, deregulated airlines, and expansions in gambling and pornography. At the same time, the movement for civil rights grew, promoting changes for women, gays, immigrants, and the disabled. And developments were not limited to the United States. Many countries gave up colonial and racial hierarchies to develop a new formal commitment to human rights, while economic deregulation spread to other parts of the world, from Chile and the United Kingdom to China. Placing a tempestuous political culture within a global perspective, this book shows that the decade wrought irrevocable transformations upon American society and the broader world that continue to resonate today.

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