scholarly journals A Comparative Study between A Tale of Two Cities and The Great Gatsby—The Self-sacrifice Spirits in Romanticism

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Li
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The Self ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Two Cities

scholarly journals The Nature of Love: Sydney Carton in Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and Jay Gatsby in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
Maria Boshra Chowdhury ◽  
Md. Ziaul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Two Cities

This article makes a comparative study of “A Tale of Two Cities” and “The Great Gatsby” and evaluates the genuine love of Sydney Carton and Jay Gatsby for their beloveds. Sydney Carton and Jay Gatsby are the two main characters in “A Tale of Two Cities” and “The Great Gatsby”. This paper examines their nature of love under certain contexts. In the final analysis, it will be cleared that the authentic love of Sydney Carton and Jay Gatsby to their heroines Lucie Manette and Daisy Buchanan are rare in this modern world. They present passion, responsibility, respect, understanding, desire, liability, love, concern, feelings, etc., to their heroines. Both of them lead a troublesome life as they struggle, survive, and sacrifice for Lucie and Daisy a lot. From this, we can understand that only desire cannot create love. Here, the real meaning and nature of love will be discussed in the view of the two texts. Examining these, we can understand the meaning of love that helps us to differentiate between real love and fake love and the significance of actual love. By this, it can instruct people to become honest in their love by having true feelings which we can call genuine love. The study tries to discover many similarities and dissimilarities between both the characters, Sydney Carton and Jay Gatsby. Indeed, their nature of love and deeds make them extraordinary.

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY: GENETIC STRUCTURALISM ON JANE EYRE AND THE GREAT GATSBY

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dewi Christa Kobis
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The People ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Future ◽  
Culture Tradition

This study is comparative study which compares Jane Eyre and the Great Gatsby by using Genetic Structuralism. These two novels were written and published from different period. Different period commonly produces different culture, tradition, habit, work, creation, effort, and even different masterpiece. Most people claim that as the time goes by, the old ones will be replaced by the youths, and everything which had been done in the past, might not be done anymore in the present or even in the future. In fact, it is necessary to dig more about the history itself to know how the people at particular period live and how they contribute a society. This study is compiled as a research to study about the characteristic of the society when the novels has been published and the period when the author of the literary works lived while mainly discussed about how different periods create different kind of stories. It also mainly focuses to take a glance on how society impacts the authors’ thought and perception to create such literary works.

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.

The Failure of the American Dream in “The Great Gatsby”- Fitzgerald

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Zamira Hodo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Good Guide

The American Dream is one of the most important issues, which has drawn the attention of literary criticism through many years. It represents the ideals of a nation: equality, liberty, pursuit of happiness and democracy; ideals that have been understood in different ways by people. The real values related to these ideals changed and deviated from what it was meant into the enormous desire and greed for wealth and power. Fitzgerald tried to reveal that social discrimination is present and no one is treated as equal to others. The following research over the novel “The Great Gatsby” demonstrates how the dream cannot be successful because of the way it is misunderstood by the society and people’s materialism view of modern life. The characters and their attitudes through the chronology of the story are the embodiment of disappointment and the lack of moral values in the pursuance of a dream. Qualitative research used in this study aims to give a clear image and a deep analysis of the novel’s major themes, symbols, the period of writing, author’s life, various perspectives of the American Dream and its failure. We expect this thesis to be a good guide for further readings and projects with an explicit goal that the achievement of a dream does not necessarily requires the loss of the self and an excessive significance to what ruins the personal and the others future.

Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
John Keats ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The Self ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
Tender Is The Night ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter argues that sympathetic ambivalence is the hallmark of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s mode of narration (for instance, exemplified in The Great Gatsby (1925) by Nick Carraway’s curious ambivalence towards the subject of his narration, Jay Gatsby). Paradoxically, Fitzgerald portrays subjectivity as involved in both an intimate immediacy from within and an incisive viewpoint marshalled from without. Fitzgerald’s narrative technique – one of empathetic engagement and critical distance – constitutes a form of Keats’s negatively capable poetics. Fitzgerald’s negatively capable poetics depict a process of self-dissolution which reconfigures the relationship between inner and outer identities, as well as the dynamics between self and world. Such fictions of the self, for Fitzgerald, are paradoxically a release from and an imposition on subjectivities (as played out through Dick Diver’s dilemma in Tender is the Night (1934)) and the environs they occupy.

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