The Great Gatsby Ignorance Analysis

Oblivious Naivety Versus Hubristic Ignorance Morality, the judgement of right from wrong, is dependent on one’s conscience, yet the corruption due to ignorance leads to vileness and immorality. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby satirizes the incorrect societal values that lead to the inevitability of immoral acts. False idolization of the personified American Dream and inherited social status results in the characters’ defiance against the Catechism of worshipping the one and only God. Furthermore, their inability to face the reality and dishonesty breaks the rule of being truthful to oneself and to others. Lastly, their act of adultery completes their twisted ideals, which contradicts against the Catechism of not committing adultery. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan demonstrates the hamartia of depraved immorality, which is a satiric product of ignorance and the corruption of the American Dream, to a higher degree than that of Jay Gatsby according to the Catholic Catechism.

As the cause of the characters’ immorality, Gatsby’s idolization of Daisy still maintains a sense of innocence yet Tom’s false idolization of the inherited social status develops into his discriminating, indifferent attitude towards the consequence of his deeds. Furthermore, Tom’s dishonesty has deliberately used Gatsby as a scapegoat for his responsibilities, which commits graver offense against the Catechism. Lastly, his act of adultery is more morally corrupt than Gatsby’s since it is merely a form of physical sexual desire with no content of love. It is regrettable that the characters never reach their anagnorisis or the moment to recognize their moral turpitude, which is a result of their ignorance that fails to see the cruelty of reality or the faults within one’s