Mankind and humanity have two different meanings, mankind is the human race collectively and humanity is the state of being humane and benevolent. Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby highlight the difference between those words. In their novels, Fitzgerald and McCarthy use vengeful judgement to elucidate mankind’s lack of humanity. In The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan killing Jay Gatsby is a textbook example of vengeful judgement. Buchanan lies to Wilson, who’s searching for the one responsible for murdering his wife, Tom purposely setting up Gatsby as the one who had been responsible for the murder. Buchanan had done so because “ [Gatsby] threw dust into [Nick Carraway’s] eyes just like he did in Daisy’s …. [Gatsby] ran over Myrtle like
The Thief who had stolen all of The Man’s provisions which he needed for him and his son. When The Man caught up with The Thief, The Man takes “every goddamned stitch” and even “the rotting pieces of leather laced to his feet” from The Thief(McCarthy 256 - 257). Taking The Thief’s possessions in addition to reclaiming the stolen supplies is an appeasement of the vengeance brewing within The Man, it is retribution according to The Man. That retribution is, at least to The Man, by the fact “[The Thief] didn’t mind doing it to [The Man and The Boy].... [the Thief] took everything” because The Man was only leaving “[The Thief] the way [The Thief] left us”(McCarthy 257). The Man had chosen to balance one theft with another leaving The Thief in a literally naked state. Just as The Thief had taken all his possessions The Man takes all of The Thief’s possessions without any remorse. The lack of remorse implies that The Man feels justified in his course of action. The inhumanity of this deed committed by another human demonstrates mankind’s lack of humanity. There’s a deeper lesson learned from this
To conclude, in The Unvanquished by William Faulkner, the theme of revenge is amply illustrated. Bayard and Ringo display revenge through Grumby’s shooting, following the old Southern code to avenge Granny’s killing. Likewise, Drusilla joins the Confederate army to take vengeance upon the Yankees, sacrificing all to ensure her fiancé’s honorable death. Finally, Bayard takes revenge upon Redmond for killing his father, Colonel Sartoris. However, Bayard approaches the situation differently by confronting Redmond unarmed. This proves that a necessity for violence when seeking revenge is not necessary, thereby changing the old Southern code. It also proves that violence as a response is not a positive way to approach a situation; it is better to address situations calmly and without anger.
The boy is a symbol of hope for the future of the world and he is proof that some humanity still exists in this dark world. The thief sees this in the boy, since McCarthy describes him seeing something “very sobering” to him in the child’s face. The boy wants to be the good guy so badly that he does not want to hurt their enemies, a fairness that the father finds hard to advocate. The boy symbolizes hope and the innocence and goodness in this new and acrid world. The goodness in the boy is one even his father cannot understand; a goodness buried deep within the boy.
In the novel The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald and Chicago. Directed by Rob Marshall, they all wanted two things money, and power. Both characters had a false view of the American Dream ,they thought having both money and power will solve their problems but in reality, them trying to achieve their goals only made life worse in their case. Also how they view their accomplishments ruin their life, both characters all wanted to be happy. Gatsby wanted money to have his love of his life, and Roxie wanted money and power to get away from her old life.
...rdon people from their sins. Then he tells a story about greed. Next the pardoner asks the audience for money for their sins. He is greedy because he wants their money. The pardoner in the is hypocritical because he tells a story about greed over money then tells people to give him money for their greed for money because he is greedy, and wants their money he could care less if they could afford it or not.
In the novel The Great Gatsby and the play A Streetcar Named Desire the main characters James Gatsby and Blanche Dubois have a lengthy search for love. Both characters go about their search in similar and different ways. The characters choose illusion over reality, but the way in which they go about it differs. Also in an attempt to impress, both characters try and “buy” love by using material possessions to attract people to them. Although Gatsby and Blanche devote a lot of their lives to finding true love, their searching leaves them unsuccessful.
The American Dream is defined as the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. This definition, however, is largely based on opinion and perspective. Recently, I encountered both a novel and film whose primary purpose was to portray the author’s interpretation of the American Dream. The wildly popular novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the 2013 movie that followed years later The Great Gatsby ,directed by Baz Luhrmann, tells the story of the summer of 1922 spent in Long Island, New York, narrated by Nick Carraway. Carraway recounts the people he spent the summer with and the abundance of money, alcohol, carelessness, obsession, and hope that was ever present. Both the novel and movie follow the same plot, however, I believe that the movie better depicts Fitzgerald’s view of the American Dream; or lack there of.
There are many conspiracies in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. One of them that many people believe is that Daisy Buchanan had killed Myrtle Wilson on purpose. Myrtle was Tom Buchanan’s mistress. Tom and Daisy were married and had a child but that didn’t stop Tom from cheating on her. At the same time, Daisy was having an affair with Jay Gatsby who was her childhood lover. There is much evidence that can prove that Daisy and Tom set up to kill Myrtle and put the blame on Gatsby.
“Gatsby turned out alright in the end.” Yes, because someone who ends up murdered in their own swimming pool, shot by a lackluster man, taking the blame for a crime he never committed for someone who quickly turned her back on him, is defined as “alright.” I never understood why Gatsby was the one to die. I thought he was the hero of the novel. Fitzgerald was a romantic; he was the American Dreamer. The novel was the epitome of the American Dream. The hero never fails; the underdog always wins. Isn’t that what we have always been taught? How could such a great man die? And why was Gatsby the only one pointed out as “alright?” I mean after all, most of the characters’ lives remained unchanged. Daisy and Tom resumed their marriage. Nick returned to the Midwest. Jordan continued her career. Gatsby was one of the only people who portrayed the repercussions of the events. How could someone that readers are supposed to root for die tragically, and on a false claim, nonetheless? Why did Fitzgerald murder Gatsby? But, after some research I realized Fitzgerald NEEDED Gatsby to die.
The first and most foremost thing that would come to mind when reading this story is how caring Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was, that she took in the boy and nurtured him; she tried to teach him between right and wrong. She gave him food, a nice conversation, and even a chance of escape, which he chose not to take, but these methods are still an immoral way of handling the situation. If a boy were to come up to an everyday woman on the streets, that victim would not be as sensitive as Mrs. Jones was to the boy she caught. To teach a young man that if you steal and you are going to get special treatment is not an effective method of punishment.
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” (T.S. Eliot) By constructing a comparative discussion, say to what extent you consider this to be useful in understanding The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire.
To recapitulate, in the book of The Great Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, and Tom are responsible for Gatsby’s unjust death. There is always at least one person who takes a responsibility of a crime, or event; this is usually the person who perpetrated such event, and he usually receives all of the blame and liability. In this novel Gatsby neither commits crime nor misconducts himself, but he assumes the responsibility and is later killed. Occasionally, people who are not guilty take a responsibility and receive a punishment. People must be responsible for their own actions, and try not to bestow their misconduct on others.
In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there were a few crimes being committed in the story but the main crime that created problem in the plot and caused three deaths is the sinful nature of adultery. The characters that were involved in the matter were Tom & Myrtle and Daisy & Gatsby having the secret affairs. The victims being involved in the crime is only George Wilson that is the husband of Myrtle but he later finds out about her affair being behind his back and decides to take drastic measures to get revenge which causes a great plot development in the story. Adultery is the most horrific crime in the book because the numerous times of dishonesty being taken place and the feeling of jealous. For example, during the conversation
Gatsby is portrayed as a good person once again when he taked the blame of Daisy running over Myrtle. Later on Gatsby tells Nick that he intended to take the blame for Daisy even though daisy was driving the car. SInce Gatsby took the blame of Myrtle's death he sacrificed his own death for
murder of Gatsby. Wilson was upset about the death of his wife and took it out on
For example, Leonardo Dicaprio’s character of Gatsby was focused on emotions. I enjoyed that Redford was very calm and cool about everything and the way he approached the character but, Dicaprio made such an open and outgoing character which made the movie more entertaining. DiCaprio captured Gatsby’s intensity and charm and brought out the crazy mood swings and took his character and the audience to a more emotional place. Both Robert Redford and Leonardo DiCaprio had their own way of approaching the character and really selling Gatsby but Leonardo DiCaprios was better. Another reason I prefer the 2013 version of the 74’ is because of the bond and friendship Nick Carraway played by Tobey Maguire and Gatsby had MaGuire was able to bring a true and strong meaning to their friendship that made his and Gatsby’s bond feel organic and real and you were able to see that clearly unlike with Waterston where you just saw the friendship and didn’t feel any emotion. But I felt much more of a connection with his character than I did with the ’74 version. If you have read the book and seen the original film, then you understood where Nick was coming from in the scene where he was furious with Gatsby, after he believe he killed Myrtle only to find out that Gatsby wasn’t the one driving the car that killed Mrytle, MaGuire, did a fantastic job in showing his emotions and how what happened to Myrtle and the person that killed Myrtle affected him. I loved that Nick was a lot more real in this movie. He didn’t hold back and he gave the audience a reaction that anyone in life would have had if they were in his situation. Nick had the major issue of being dragged into situations because of people he knows. I thought Maguire did a great job of showing ...