Examples Of Hedonism In The Great Gatsby

“Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism” said Bryant McGill(http://www.goodreads.com). Materialism and greed destroy humans the same way that cancer does, turning people into hedonists instead of compassionate people. According to Oxford-Online Dictionary, “hedonism” is defined as,“The pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence. The ethical theory that pleasure is the highest good and proper aim of human life(https://en.oxforddictionaries.com). In other words, hedonism is a philosophy where seeking pleasure is regarded as the most important point without thinking about the consequence. Hedonism is represented in the novel titled The Great Gatsby.

The novel titled The Great Gatsby was written by F.

Scott Fitzgerald. He was an American short-story writer and novelist who was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His famous novel titled The Great Gatsby was published in 1925(http://www.biography.com). F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novel The Great Gatsby which is about characters who have corrupted moral principles by practicing ‘seven deadly sins’ as a means of obtaining self-gratification at any cost. According to Ms.Lechman’s class note, ‘seven deadly sins’ are sloth, gluttony, greed, pride, lust, wrath and envy. Within The Great Gatsby, practicing hedonism or some of the seven deadly sins causes great harm and it is also detrimental to the pursuit of the American Dream. This is presented by the behaviour of the protagonist Gatsby, the antagonist Tom and deuteragonist

Myrtle.
As a conclusion, in the novel titled The Great Gatsby written F.Scott Fitzgerald, characters who commit seven deadly sins are deadly for a reason. All the characters who practice any of the seven deadly sins become morally corrupted. Within the novel titled The Great Gatsby, the protagonist Jay Gatsby commits greed, wrath and pride. Thus, the final outcome of practicing this hedonistic behaviour is that he dead and only little people attend his funeral. The antagonist called Tom Buchanan as he commits deadly sins of wrath and pride and lust. He lost his lover Myrtle Wilson at last and lived with the woman whom he cannot stay with as a result. The deuteragonist called Myrtle Wilson as she commits wrath and greed and lust, she was hit by Daisy and dead as a result. These are all presented in the novel titled The Great Gatsby which was written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night is F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel which was published in 1934. This story, primarily about human deterioration, the disintegration of love and marriage(http://www.gradesaver.com). Anyway, life is like a dish, people can choose how to cook it and what to add, but will they satisfied with their final dishes?