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Connections Between The Great Gatsby And Frankenstein

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Storytelling is an important part in the making of a book, especially a great one that emphasizes on delivering a message to its reading audience. I am revisiting the graveyard of my most significant past emotions to discover a better understanding of my true emotions that make up my face, and my false emotions that design the mask over it. In the form of portraying my many tombstones, I’ll be writing out my own story, to an extension of fiction to assist any details that are needed to get the message across. Many stories express themselves as a certain theme (horror, romance, comedy, etc.), but a deeper message that is in the process of sending is one that writes out “tragedy”. A switch in perspectives is what great storytelling has …show more content…

There was a lot of context and emotion that I had left in my past and have always been interested in looking back at it to express it. Many suggestions came to mind, such as making a film about it, but I felt as though literature could get my message across more efficiently. I wanted to develop the perfect format to deliver a deep message within the story that is being told. Therefore, I looked into stories that relate to my theme and send a similar message. Those stories were, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, and Frankenstein. The first two have a similar theme; which is love, but the deeper message actually proves to be that the stories were both tragedies. Frankenstein may not have the same theme, but it still uses the same technique to deliver that difference in perspective effect. This was a story of horror, given Frankenstein was being labeled as a monster, but once you look a little deeper at all the details within the story you soon come to realize that Frankenstein was nothing more than a …show more content…

The way we are guided throughout Gatsby's mysterious background comparing to his present, all while wanting the love of his life; Daisy. The interactions between the two show just how in love they are, but events that are slowly developed throughout the story lead it to its own death, more specifically Gatsby's. Leaving both these individuals who were in love with each other, in the end, without the other. In Romeo and Juliet, these are two young adults that are so in love with each other that they are willing to go against their culture to be together. From the start this was clearly going to be a tough road, but for the sake of being married to one another, they developed a plan to escape and be together. However, background details also proved to be the downfall of this story, because in the end they both commit suicide to unintentionally be together whether it was alive or dead. Love story? No, a true tragedy for the

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In Frankenstein, the Monster spends days held up in a shack peering in on a family’s life in order to be able to read and write. Lastly, both characters scare people. In The Tale of Despereaux, Despereaux makes people run away in fear when he violates even the most basic rules of mousedom. In Frankenstein, the Monster, being the 8-foot-tall giant that he is, people run away in fear at the sheer way he

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Love leads to hardship and lies which is proven by Gatsby losing his life to Daisy who didn 't attend his funeral. Nick tried to call Daisy and tell her that Gatsby’s funeral was this afternoon, but she ran away with Tom. “But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them”(Nick 127). Gatsby didn’t get to say his goodbye to Daisy and lost his life for her. This shows the hardship that Gatsby had even when he died, due to the fact that Daisy didn’t come to his funeral.

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Despite this loss, they ultimately grow in their relationship once they accept their grief. Moreover, The Great Gatsby’s “Gatsby” builds upon his love of Daisy and develops a dream

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story, much like Daisy and Gatsby’s. In Shakespeare's novel, Romeo and Juliet cannot be together because of the feud between their families, and their love was deemed improper. In The Great Gatsby, a similar situation is at hand. Daisy and Gatsby were in love, but never had the chance to be together because of numerous factors. Gatsby was going off to war, and Daisy's parents did not approve of the man she wanted to marry.

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Customarily, an author will construct a narrative in which the protagonist, a character contrived to be implausible, as well as honorable is destined to decline along the path of tragedy leading to suffering and misfortune. Distinctive writing strategies corresponding to the theme, motifs, symbols and characters contently allow the scripter to plot the flaws dominating the descent of the advocate. Amongst Fitzgerald and Shakespeare’s central characters, Jay Gatsby and Othello, both filled with passionate love for their significant other are corrupted by their lack of judgement causing them to lose the one they lust over. Similarly, both characters originated from a meager past which they were forced to struggle to achieve a position where they

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In the book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald portrays and image of love versus infatuation. The relationships between the characters shows the struggle of an emotional connection in a world driven by societal pressures and money. Gatsby’s and Daisy’s relationship with each other is intertwined with each other’s love and lust, and is complicated with their other relationships, such as Daisy’s and Tom’s marriage. Gatsby is the “fool” in love throughout this whole endeavor and his week with Daisy, because of his constant search for love to fill the void in his life that no amount of success can. Gatsby’s complete infatuation with Daisy started out with them meeting five years back, and surfaced into a love affair.

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