The fiction play Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the fiction novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are well know tragic stories. Both of the stories also have destructive femme fatales who use female appearance to manipulate and deceive other characters. The Femme fatale’s were manipulative and often hurt or destroyed other characters and always for selfish reasons. If the femme Fatale’s’ Daisy (The Great Gatsby) and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) were not in the the stories, no conflict would have been created and the stories would not have had a tragic outcome. Daisy seems like an innocent and sweet sweet woman. But in reality she uses her appearance to manipulate and deceive men many times throughout the novel. To start, Daisy …show more content…
Daisy continuously destroyed people's lives with her careless and selfish actions.Daisy had led both Tom and Gatsby on creating unneeded tension on an already hot day. She leads both men on saying “I did love him once- But I also loved you(140). Daisy has got two men fighting over here which obviously is going to create some serious tension. She says they loved both men which causes jealousy. As a result Gatsby gets killed causing a tragic ending to a beloved character. If Daisy was not in the story, no tension would have been created as Gatsby and Tom would have no issue with each other and Mr. Wilson would not be out to kill avenge his wife. This entire tragedy could have been avoided if the femme fatale, Daisy had not been included in the story. Next, Lady Macbeth writes her own tragedy as being femme fatale catches up to her. She seems so ruthless and manipulative in the beginning but her guilty mind is able to over power her femme fatale resulting in her seeing what destruction she had caused. This causes her to feel ashamed and causes tragic thoughts to enter into her mind ending in her taking her own life. Right before the battle a messenger informs Macbeth “the queen, my lord, is dead”(V.V.16). Lady Macbeth had took her own life as she had an endless guilt she could not get rid of. If she was not a femme fatale and caught up in her selfish acts of cruelness or she was not in the play at all, the death of Lady Macbeth would not add to the tragedy of the story of Macbeth making it less if at all of a tragedy. Lastly, Lady Macbeth herself was a tragedy but that is only a small portion of the tragedy she created. She manipulates Macbeth into killing the King and creating a war that resulting in a high amount of death and the destruction of Macbeth. This is shown when Macduff and
All stories have the same blueprint structure with the same type of ending whether it be good triumphs over evil, rags to riches, the voyage and the return, tragedy, or rebirth. The thing that sets these stories apart is the message they intend to in our minds. “ The power of a story to shift and show itself to anew is part of what attracts people to it, at different ages, in different moods, with different concerns” (Auxier 7). These messages are given by the characters in the story that all have their own reasoning but in the end have one meaning behind it. Some messages give specified personal messages rather than a broad stated such as the stories The Wizard of Oz and The Great Gatsby. Blinded by the ignorance of desires, the characters
It is a given that every piece of work that people read will contain all sorts of characters. Those characters can range from villains, victims, or venerables. Two pieces of work that easily portray those types of characters is in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, and in Arthur Miller’s tragedy, The Crucible. It is revealed to the readers that Mr. Wilson in The Great Gatsby takes the role of the victim because of the how he was lied too and deceived throughout the entirety of the novel, and in the end died from it. Also, in The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is almost an undercover villain. It is not revealed to most, but by speculating on her actions she does some things that prove her to be a villain. Lastly, in The Crucible Giles Corey comes off as a venerable,
Even though Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf,and Macbeth happened in three different time periods and share different cultural standards, they all share the common factor of being called heroes.The time periods of these specific stories are the Anglo-Saxon, Renaissance, and the Medieval times.Classifying a hero and not knowing the standards of each period can be a difficult task. Having a clear idea of what all these time periods intel can help when classifying if in fact these people are hero's. Individually looking at Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and, Macbeth,it can be easy to see how each story describes the hero’s personalities and how the time period had an effect on them.
I believe that Jay Gatsby and Othello’s inability to face the truth lead to their tragic consequences, but in real life I believe it is not the case. The Great Gatsby and ‘Othello’ are both stories beautifully constructed by William Shakespeare and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I believe that the refusal to face the truth for Gatsby and Othello, was definitely an element used by the authors to construct them as tragic protagonists.
Daisy Buchanan may look like the persona of beauty and innocence, but in reality she is cunning and deceitful. She has men wrapped around her finger with little to no effort, and her manipulation runs deep. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchannan betrays those who care about her most in this world, and leaves a path of ashes and destruction.
Daisy's greed can best be seen in her choice of a husband, and in the circumstances
Characters in The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald are often described differently than they actually act throughout the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Daisy is told to be “by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville”. She was said to have great beauty, and its even said that she holds her popularity spot because of it. She is also described as a “fool” which means she is beautiful, just like an angel. As we read on, we come to see that Daisy is actually very careless, selfish, and only focuses herself on wealth and power. She never looked at the consequences of her actions; and she let others clean up the messes she made. She wanted her daughter to grow up just like her, even though it’s a life nobody wanted to live. She even gave up her true love to be with somebody who had money and a good repetition. As perceived in the novel, Daisy is the most despicable character in the novel of The Great Gatsby.
All tragedies eventually end in chaos; however, Othello and The Great Gatsby both begin with innocent characters thinking little about the possibility of disarray. During the climax of both works it becomes evident that the idea of order is doomed, inevitably leading to a bounding spiral of problems. The Great Gatsby and Othello both end in chaos because the protagonists, Othello and Gatsby are outsiders entering an ordered society. The actions of many characters cause confusion in the storyline, and the chaos in both works gradually impact the downfall of every character.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, display the customs and beliefs of past society. Both novels project the idea of wealth and high-class but also accentuate the search for love. Fitzgerald emphasizes the harm in devoting one’s life to achieving wealth for the one he loves, as Gatsby believes in order to win over Daisy he must acquire a great deal of money. Austen displays the importance of love over looks and money. She details the happiness Elizabeth is able to receive once she marries the guy who has similar wit and sarcasm. Although the novels were written a century apart, Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby encompass similar ideologies, along with people and beliefs, of the time.
Throughout history, women’s place and role in society has changed. Women are often seen as a lower status and have a need to be taken care of by men. There are conflicts with the idealization of women as they are often overlooked and viewed as secondary characters. This idealization is well established in the characters of Desdemona in Othello and Daisy in The Great Gatsby. In F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and Shakespeare‘s play Othello, Desdemona and Daisy are both responsible for their tragedies due to the manipulation and impact of the outsiders, their loss of innocence, and their vulnerability as women.
After struggling with the thought of killing Duncan, Macbeth is reprimanded by Lady Macbeth for his lack of courage. She informs him that killing the king will make him a man, insinuating that he isn’t a man if he doesn’t go through with the murder. This develops Lady Macbeth as a merciless, nasty, and selfish woman. She will say, or do anything to get what she desires, even if it means harming others. It is this selfishness that makes it hard for the reader to be empathetic towards her later in the play, as it is evident in this scene that her hardships were brought on by herself. If she hadn’t insisted on the murder, she would not be driven in...
Daisy's carelessness reveals her corruption as a human being. She uses her wealth and social status to escape whatever she chooses, like the death of Myrtle. Additionally, her actions demonstrate the dishonest exploitation of power for personal gain and attention. Daisy’s character, due to her money, inherently values her advantage over the lower class, revealing a nature of entitlement. Additionally, she gives no respect to anyone around her, sometimes n...
There was a common saying, “Behind every great man there's a great woman”. The men, Macbeth and Winston Smith in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and George Orwell’s 1984 may not be considered as the “great man” however, both Lady Macbeth and Julia are good examples that can be presented as the “great woman” behind the men. Both Lady Macbeth and Julia do an excellent job of pretending to be someone who they are not, they are not only affecting the men in their lives to rethink their previous position but also have a bad ending accompanied with physical and psychological issues.
Essay 4: Comparative Analysis of Two Texts When comparing two texts, one must look at the characters and themes to find similarities and differences and we see a similarity with the theme of accepting reality in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby. There are differences in both texts with the way the characters fight reality, but the outcome is the same. The power of love in both texts is looked at as more important than social priorities and the main characters will do anything to get what they want and it results in death. One might come to conclusions to say that F. Scott Fitzgerald based the relationship of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan on Romeo and Juliet, seeing that both stories have characters who do not accept the reality and in their minds, love overpowers everything. When looking at these two texts side to side, one would notice many similarities in the actions of the main characters.
In the play Othello and the play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the main characters in both plays as warriors. Both characters in each of their plays, had constant outside voices seeping into their minds which ultimately contributed to the fate of both Othello and Macbeth. The witches in the play Macbeth had more of an effect of Macbeth’s actions then Iago had on Othello’s actions in the play Othello. Each character had a lot of pressure on them throughout the play however the witches influence on Macbeth resulted in more destruction than Iago’s influence on Othello.