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Fitzgerald's Use Of The Four Elements In The Great Gatsby, John Philip Hawkins
Fitzgerald's Use Of The Four Elements In The Great Gatsby, John Philip Hawkins
Masters Theses
A great deal has been written about the conscientious effort that went into the design of F. Scott Fitzgerald's popular novel, The Great Gatsby, with its various allusions and numerous symbols. A careful reading of this novel will unveil the author's preoccupation with numerous metaphysical images, particularly the four elements--air, earth, water, and fire--which are considered to be the essential components of all matter.
Fitzgerald uses the four elements in The Great Gatsby to coordinate mood and physical settings, to give dimension to the settings, and to bring characters into sharper focus. The novel employs four settings, each one …
Saul Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: A Fusion Of The Comic And The Serious, George William Russo
Saul Bellow's Henderson The Rain King: A Fusion Of The Comic And The Serious, George William Russo
Masters Theses
Bellow's comic vision points to a compromise between the romantic notion that self-perfection is attainable and the pessimistic notion that man is ultimately impotent and thus destined to fail. Through Henderson, Bellow shows that although man does not--and ultimately cannot--completely free himself of somatic demands and limitations, he is nevertheless not defeated by them and thus not left a victim of emotionless observations.
Bellow draws upon four sources in Henderson's nature to create the humor in the novel and highlights Eugene Henderson as a comic hero by dramatizing that Henderson proves to be his own ironist. These sources can be …
From Selflessness To Selfishness: Various Types Of Deception In Four Of Twain's Novels, Kay L. Smith
From Selflessness To Selfishness: Various Types Of Deception In Four Of Twain's Novels, Kay L. Smith
Masters Theses
An interesting feature of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson is the use of disguise and deception. The basis of much of the novels' actions concerns people who, for varied reasons, set out to fool other people. Other individuals or groups of people are self-deceived.
Motivations for the deception vary. Some entail selfless concerns of protecting a loved one. Some illustrate desires to maintain one's own safety and well-being. Still others involve negative, base qualities such as greed, …