The very essence of money creates an urge in human nature to obtain it and have an excess of it. When people come into wealth and begin rising on the social ladder, they usually become corrupted, and compromise their personal values. In the novels, Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby, the protagonists, Pip and Jay Gatsby respectively, believe their wealth is used for the common good, but in reality many values are being compromised. Pip and Gatsby both utilize their money in an attempt to bring the women they love into their lives. Along the way toward achieving their goal, they violate ethics, which, in turn, change them as people.
Despite the two novels possessing differences, they coincide in many aspects. When Pip acquires the money from the unknown benefactor, he moves away under Jaggers guidance and seldom returns to his hometown. In the beginning, his reasons for coming back were to visit Joe, Biddy, and Miss Havisham, but eventually he changes and seeing the people previously so important to him appears to become a chore. This is ironic because, before, he looked up to Joe, and regarded him as a father, now he refuses to see him on account of Joe being a common blacksmith. This is one of the first changes that we see in Pip after his knowledge that he will become educated. Pip’s entire reason for becoming a gentleman is to attract Estella, and make her return the feelings of love that he holds for her. Ultimately, it appears that Pip is willing to cast away his old life and friends, to become a gentleman and obtain Estella. This perfectly illustrates an immense change in Pip when he compromises his beliefs to accumulate money, stature and, inevitably, Estella.
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3. How did their violation of ethics affect their personalities? Do their violations have similar outcomes? Did their plans for winning the women work? What were the differences between the novels that determined the different outcomes? How did the characters, Gatsby and Pip feel about their unethical money?
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As a young man, Jay Gatsby was poor with nothing but his love for Daisy. He had attempted to woe her, but a stronger attraction to money led her to marry another man. This did not stop Gatsby’s goal of winning this woman for himself though, and he decided to improve his life anyway he could until he could measure up to Daisy’s standards. He eventually gained connections in what would seem to be the wrong places, but these gave him the opportunity he needed to "get rich quick." Gatsby’s enormous desire for Daisy controlled his life to the point that he did not even question the immorality of the dealings that he involved himself in to acquire wealth. Eventually though, he was able to afford a "castle" in a location where he could pursue Daisy effectively. His life ambition had successfully moved him to the top of the "new money" class of society, but he lacked the education of how to promote his wealth properly. Despite the way that Gatsby flaunted his money, he did catch Daisy’s attention. A chaotic affair followed for a while until Daisy was overcome by pressures from Gatsby to leave her husband and by the realization that she belonged to "old money" and a more proper society.
The Great Gatsby set in the glistening and glittering world of wealth and glamour of 1920s Jazz Age in America. However, the story of the poor boy who tried to fulfill the American Dream of living a richer and fuller life ends in Gatsby’s demise. One of the reasons for the tragedy is the corrupting influence of greed on Gatsby. As soon as Gatsby starts to see money as means of transforming his fantasy of winning Daisy’s love into reality, his dream turns into illusion. However, other characters of the novel are also affected by greed. On closer inspection it turns out that almost every individual in the novel is covetous of something other people have. In this view, the meaning of greed in the novel may be varied The greed is universally seen as desire for material things. However, in recent studies the definition of “greed” has come to include sexual greed and greed as idolatry, understood as fascination with a deity or a certain image (Rosner 2007, p. 7). The extended definition of greed provides valuable framework for research on The Great Gatsby because the objects of characters’ desires can be material, such as money and possessions, or less tangible, such as love or relationship.
In September of 1898, Morris and Rose Gershowitz (previously Moishe Gershowitz and Roza Bruskina) welcomed their second child, Jacob Gershwine(which would have been pronounced 'Gershvin') into the world. Preceding him was his older brother Ira, in 1896; born later was Arthur in 1900and Frances in1906. Gershwin came from Russian-Jewish heritage; his grandfather, Jakov Gershowitz, had served as a mechanic for the Imperial Russian Army for 25 years in order to earn his right to free travel and residence as a Jew, and he retired near Saint Petersburg. His son, Moishe, worked as a leather cutter for shoes, and fell in love with Roza Bruskina. However, she moved with her family to New York because of rising anti-Semitism in Russia and changed her first name to Rose. After serving his obligatory military service in Russia, Moishe followed Rose to America and gave his first name as Morris upon arrival. They married on July 21, 1895, when she was 19 and he was 23. After the birth of Ira, the family moved to 242 Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn.
To a good number of people, money is their personal king, their ruler, their everything. Money is their motivation, and their ambition revolves entirely around it. They are entranced by its brightness, dazzled by its brilliance. Such people can be found in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, in which money plays a central role and is the driving force behind many significant events.
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This make the government thought that Nelson was a threat and an immense danger to the society, therefore they though his sentence was fair. Mandelas speeches and contributions as a politician suddenly became known nationwide because Mandela was risking his life and prisoning himself for the purpose to make others rebell and act against injustices. Since around the world people knew of the existence of segregation in south Africa-which was one of the few countries to still support this type of system- the nation oppose trade and international sanctions with South africa. This also cost the country the banned osf assisting the olympic games on 1964 [ from the website “ the legacy of Mandela”]. IN the 80’s, Nelson became a recognizable and admirable character who became an inspirator to several political groups and communities across the world. The nation soon became interested in mandelas case and set up a performance which indicated and celebrated the 70th birthday of mandela, causing more people to know of his struggle. The criticism and opposition to nelson’s sentenced invaded the party member of south Africa. The government was determined not to released him, but the disturbance around their surroundings and global pression make them released Mandela 2 years after the performance [ from the book “ along walk to freedom”]. His