This article argues that swimming beneath the surface story of Jay Gatsby's pursuit of the golden girl lies a complex pattern of language and imagery that suggests a different central message behind the novel, one that offers a new way of understanding the evasions of narrator Nick Carraway that have long been debated. Meredith, Keith Gandal, and a handful of others, the military background of the plot has been taken for granted. He finds out that his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, is one of the wealthiest people in the country. Although critics for the past twenty-five years or so have refocused on period concerns, with the exception of the work of James H. From the 1940s on, its themes were defined as more universal and timeless, emphasizing the gap between romance and reality and the illusory nature of the American Dream. Initially, The Great Gatsby was believed to be a period piece set in a decadent “Roaring Twenties” that glorified adultery, alcohol, and wealth. This unit is designed for an 11th grade class, but may. Fitzgerald was enamored by the life of money, status, and beautiful people on a hopeless spiral into self destruction. The Great Gatsby & Media Literacy David Jennis Abstract This curriculum is about developing background knowledge and basic media literacy skills with The Great Gatsby as a comparative text.
Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he designed within the novel's elegant prose a suppressed meaning, one that has been overlooked in critical discourse since the book's publication in 1925. Language: The True Tale of the Great Gatsby The Jazz age was a time of glamour, sparkle, parties, music, the extreme rich, the extreme poor, and the exultation of lawlessness F. He writes with the use of many metaphors and often times engages all five senses in one scene. Scott Fitzgerald uses very descriptive language to make the reader feel as though they are in the passage. Keywords: egoistic hedonism, universalistic hedonism, lifestyle, matearialism.When F. Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, F. The results of this study show that there are some impact that influenced by ethical hedonism, they are: (1) egoistic hedonism (2) universalistic hedonism (3) lifestyle (4) materialism, its reflected by the character quotation.
The writer uses qualitative descriptive method, the writer collects data from so many sources included The Great Gatsby novel, journals, and books. This research is library research, with the data in the form of words, dialogues, and expression showed in the novel. The source of the data is the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. The ethical hedonism theory consists of egoistic hedonism and universalistic hedonism. The data are used in this novel are quotation between the characters. The purpose of ethical hedonism teory is to make everyone as happy as possible. in Gatsby for occasionally slipping into vague, abstract language.
Ethical hedonism is the way of thinking to achieve happiness in the middle of troublesome modern world. In The Great Gatsby, the flappers and faux philosophers of the age are brushed aside. This aims of this study reflect about etchical hedonism in Jay Gatsby as main character in the novel which take place in New York 1920’s after First War.The researcher uses William Lillie’s ethical hedonism theory. The 2nd Annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL 2019)