Great Gatsby [11th grade]

This unit focuses on exploring The Great Gatsby and how the time period and culture in which the novel is written plays a vital part in the author s overall message in the novel. One of the key understandings to this unit is how good literature makes a statement on culture, but great literature is timeless and universal and provides a lens to view our own lives and society. Through an examination of the 1920s culture, the students will be able to understand Fitzgerald s message about the 1920s. They will further examine this through a group project where they will take The Great Gatsby and compare it with Fitzgerald s short stories. Since the stories were written as precursors to The Great Gatsby and as failed attempts to write The Great Gatsby, the groups will examine the differences in plot, characters, and setting along with how each uses themes and imagery to portray Fitzgerald s message about the 1920s. The groups will compare the message of each story to each other and create a poster that depicts their results. In order to show how these messages can reflect today s society, each student will choose a central theme in The Great Gatsby and show/tell how it is present in today s society. The student can choose between a variety of mediums and must include a one-page explanation of the project. Along with exploring the author s message through literature, the students will also explore the major themes in The Great Gatsby. They will explore the themes of identity and reality versus illusion. They will begin to think about these themes through the chalk talk questions (How can it be possible to not know oneself? How is one s life affected either by the process of self-discovery or by the failure to try to understand oneself? Why do some people have difficulty distinguishing between what is reality and what is illusion?) and the discussion about The Great Gatsby

Symbolism in the Great Gatsby

This is a paper that focuses on different symbols in F. Scott's Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. The novel makes a link between different symbols employed in the novel, the Jazz Age and The American Dream. The major symbols that the paper focuses on are: the green light, the eyes of Doctor. T.J. Eckleburg and The Valley of Ashes.These symbols play an important role in developing the plot of the novel and distinguish it as a great masterpiece in English literature. Key Words: Symbols, Gatsby, Daisy, American Dream, Jazz Age, Fitzgerald

Sex and aggression in f. Scott fitzgerrald’s novel The great gatsby (1925): a psychoanalytic criticism

The major issue of this study is what and how causes of sex and aggression reflected in The Great Gatsby novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerrald?. The objective of this study is, 1) to describe The Great Gatsby novel based on structural elements of novel, and 2) to analyze sex and aggression in The Great Gatsby novel(1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerrald based on a Psychoanalytic Criticism. The research is qualitative study. The researcher uses primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data sources The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerrald and the secondary data sources related the study, such as: website, dictionary, some books that support the analysis. The data collection method used by the researcher is reading the novel, taking notes, arranging the data, selecting particular parts of the script, determining the character that will be analyzed, classifying and determining the relevant data and browsing on internet. The data analysis method is descriptive qualitative analysis descriptive analysis concerns with structural element of the novel on sex and aggression. The results of the study shows the following conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis, it can be concluded that there are several moral messages appear in The Great Gatsby novel, the author conveys a moral messages that this novel involve the love and lust sometimes cannot be distinguished from one another. Second based on psychoanalytic analysis it can be found that in this novel the author illustatees the psychological phenomenon related with causes of sex and aggression

A Pragmatic Study of Exaggeration in British and American Novels

The main concern of this study is to tackle exaggeration in British and American situations taken from Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby novels. From a pragmatic point of view, exaggeration in the field of literature has not been given enough attention. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to develop a model for the analysis of exaggeration pragmatically. Thus, it concerns itself with achieving the following aims:(1)investigating the kinds of speech acts through which the exaggeration language occurs in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby novels.(2)identifying  the devices of exaggeration used in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby novels.(3)showing how exaggerators pragmatically proceed the Politeness Principle and the Cooperative Principle in these two novels.(4)figuring out the pragmatic functions of exaggeration used in these two novels. In relation to the abovementioned aims, the following hypotheses are tested:(1) various kinds of speech acts through which the exaggeration language occurs can be used in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby novels.(2)a variety of devices of exaggeration are used in these two novels.(3)the Politeness Principle and the Cooperative Principle are violated in The Great Gatsby more than in Mrs. Dalloway.(4)there are different pragmatic functions for exaggeration in these novels.To achieve the aforementioned aims, the following procedures are followed:(1)surveying the relevant literature on exaggeration in general and its pragmatic perspective in particular.(2)analyzing the exaggeration language pragmatically in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby according to a model developed by this study.The results of the analysis prove the first, second, and fourth hypotheses, whereas they partially reject the third hypothesis and partially verify it. Keywords: Exaggeration, Pragmatics, Speech acts

The Great Gatsby: Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford

Where did Fitzgerald get the idea of having Clay's Economics reside in Nick Carraway's library?

SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”

Penelitian ini tentang Sociological Criticism pada novel karya F.Scott Fitzgerald yang berjudul “The Great Gatsby”. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada pendekatan kritis terhadap karya sastra khususnya kritik pada bidang sosiologis dalam novel.  Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui (i) Jenis-jenis kritik sosial dalam novel “The Great Gatsby” (ii) dan Bagaimana kekuatan lingkungan sosial terhadap peranan individu.  Pada penelitian ini metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif digunakan sebagai desain penelitian ini.  Data sumber penelitian ini adalah novel “The Great Gatsby” oleh F.Scott Fitzgerald itu sendiri.  Peneliti menggunakan analisis dokumen dan pengambilan catatan sebagai pengumpulan data yang akan dianalisis.  Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat empat jenis kritik sosial yang ditemukan dalam novel “The Great Gatsby”. 4 jenis kritik social tersebut adalah, kritik sosial masalah ekonomi, kritik sosial masalah pendidikan, kritik sosial masalah budaya, dan kritik sosial masalah moral.  Pada penelitian ini juga ditemukan lingkungan social yang mempengaruhi individu, dan menimbulkan status social diantara tokoh dalam novel, seperti status old money (uang lama), new money (uang baru), dan no money (tidak ada uang)