The Role Of Hedonism In The Great Gatsby And The Awakening

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Hedonism, the doctrine that claims pleasure to be the most important goal in life and encourages the pursuit of gratification, is a prevalent idea and belief within F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby during the Roaring Twenties. After WWI, the devastation caused was to a degree unseen before. There were numerous deaths and as a result families shattered. Wanting to forget about the war, people became disillusioned and developed hedonistic ideals; Americans felt entitled to happiness. Within The Great Gatsby and The Awakening, the social classes of the characters enable their desires to be indulged through parties, immorality, and acts of infidelity.  Furthermore,  structures and

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