Thinking activity on The Great Gatsby :
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Today I'm writing a blog about the Novel 'The Great Gatsby' which we have discussed in our classroom , I've been pondering upon the given tasks . So let's begin…
F Scott Fitzgerald :
F Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th century American short story writer and novelist. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is today widely considered “the great American novel.”
The very first point in which I've to ponder upon is…
How did the film capture the Jazz age - the Roaring Twenties of the America in 1920s ?
From the publication of his 1922 collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, and beyond, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been inextricably linked to jazz. Indeed, Fitzgerald is even widely believed to have coined the term “Jazz Age,” and although the phrase predated Fitzgerald’s book, his usage unquestionably boosted its popularity immensely. The presence of jazz in his other works, perhaps most iconically in his grand novel The Great Gatsby, linked the term even more tightly to his name. Today, the moniker “Jazz Age” has come to signify, as a kind of evocative shorthand, the 1920s in both academic and pop culture.
It is difficult to overstate the pre-eminence of jazz in the early twentieth century in America, appearing as a theme in everything from clubs to cartoons to realist fiction. “Jazz was everything. A weltanschauung, a personal identity, a metaphysics, an epistemology, an ethics, an eros, a mode of sociality and an entire way of being.” It was a musical style that, with its improvised orchestration, complexity, and danceable melodies, seemed to represent, through the fusion of seemingly contrary impulses, so much of the world at the time: the dissonance of Modernism, on the one hand, with jazz’s rejection of straightforward classical music, and, on the other hand, its class transcending popularity, whereby both rich and poor could, in theory, dance to similar music.
Flapper Style. Jazz and other new musical and dance forms exploded onto society in the 1920s. This pop culture movement was personified by the flappers, whose fashion styles represented their free spirits and new social openness.
The second point is that…
How did the film help in understanding the characters of the novel ?
According to this video we saying that this video help us for understanding the novel's characters in a better way ...For example, in the very beginning, the characters of Nick Carraway are introduced as a patient and his doctor suggests that he write down something and then he will narrate the whole story. In the same way when Daisy's first look in the movie is also fascinating. Jay Gatsby the very interesting and mysterious character. So , in short the film helps in a very good way to understanding the characters .
The 3rd point is that …
How did the film help in understanding the symbolic significance of 'The Valley of Ashes', 'The Eyes of Dr. T J Eckleberg' and 'The Green Light'?
The Valley of Ashes:-
First introduced in Chapter 2, the valley of ashes between West Egg and New York City consists of a long stretch of desolate land created by the dumping of industrial ashes. It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.
The Green Light
the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future. Gatsby associates it with Daisy, and in Chapter 1 he reaches toward it in the darkness as a guiding light to lead him to his goal. Because Gatsby’s quest for Daisy is broadly associated with the American dream, the green light also symbolizes that more generalized ideal. In Chapter 9, Nick compares the green light to how America, rising out of the ocean, must have looked to early settlers of the new nation.
The Eyes of Dr. T J Eckleburg
The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes. They may represent God staring down upon and judging American society as a moral wasteland, though the novel never makes this point explicitly. the eyes also come to represent the essential meaninglessness of the world and the arbitrariness of the mental process by which people invest objects with meaning. Nick explores these ideas in Chapter 8, when he imagines Gatsby’s final thoughts as a depressed consideration of the emptiness of symbols and dreams.
The another point is about the …
4) How did the film capture the theme of racism and sexism?
As reflected the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald , the culture and social values of 1930s America allows people get away with what one would frown upon in the 21 century. The 1930s social values were disturbingly racist and sexist .
In the film the great Gatsby "sexism" and "racism" describe by the gorgeousness of life. In clothing and expression the both ism describe very well.
The 5th point is about the narrator…
5) Watch the video on Nick Carraway and discuss him as a narrator.
In that novel, Nick loves Gatsby, the erstwhile James Gatz of North Dakota, for his capacity to dream Jay Gatsby into being and for his willingness to risk it all for the love of a beautiful woman.
After moving to West Egg, a fictional area of Long Island that is home to the newly rich, Nick quickly befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
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