King Porus

In society color has many meanings such as red and blue symbolizing hot and cold. Also, in society colors represent many different things, yellow represents warmth but also represent caution. The meanings of colors throughout history have changed too, today in society blue portrays sadness but in the Middle Ages it portrayed devotion. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, the luxurious 1920s are precisely depicted. During this prosperous age there were many key factors that shaped…

There was a time in history called the Jazz Age, which took place during the “Roaring Twenties”. This novel’s setting is based in the time era of the Jazz Age and the “Roaring Twenties”. The Jazz Age was a time period in the 1920’s where new music and dances became popular in the United States and even Britain. Everyone started being more rebellious by going to more parties, and always drinking and having a good time. The “Roaring Twenties” are when more people decided to live in cities instead…

Color has many different meanings in our everyday lives, from a simple go at a green traffic light to stop and pull over to a flashing blue light. Everywhere you look you see simple colors that mean different things. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway is bombarded with colorful people and their very colorful array of possessions and places as he adapts to the New York way of life in the 1920’s. Nick meets a man named Gatsby and helps him get the girl of his dreams…

In life and in literature, colors are often used to symbolize things of a deeper meaning. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, color symbolism is used extensively throughout the plot to represent issues and feelings of the characters. The colors that were used most often for symbolism were green, blue, red, white, and yellow. First off, green is a symbol for extraordinary hope. Next, blue symbolizes sadness and poverty. In addition, red stands for love and rage. Also, white…

Believing the world will be fair to you because you are fair to the world is like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him; it is naïve and unrealistic. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby was hopelessly in love with Daisy Buchanan after years of being separated from her. He expected her to still feel the same overwhelming love for him that he had for her, but that wasn’t exactly the case. Daisy lusted for Gatsby, but her intentions were…

Many people believe that elite social status and acquiring expensive materialistic possessions are possible in a prosperous country like America. As a result, countless Americans by the name of Abraham Lincoln, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford have set an example and were able to rise to financial and social success. In the same way, the characters Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, are clear examples of the pursuit of the American Dream,…

The adventure-filled journey of Simba, the Lion King is one of the most inspiring film produced by Walt Disney. This non-fairy tale animated feature swept the hearts of viewers through the idea of modern day conflict verses the typical fairy tale stories such as the little Mermaid, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and etc. The underlining idea of these films was prince marrying a princess, true love through one magical kiss, and then a happily ever after ending. Now we all know that…

Relationships can be complicated, especially when there are multiple people involved. Sometimes people get so tied up in their relationships that it becomes their life, their passion, and their one goal, to perfect the relationship. For Jay Gatsby, this case is true. He fell in love with a girl he never could see himself with, and she fell in love with him. However, not all relationships always will work. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to convey how even if you try your best…

answer to a mysteries. As soon as you start reading the book “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare you notice that there are already schemes brewing. In act two scene two of “Hamlet” there is a scheme that is constructed by Prince Hamlet to find out if King Claudius is responsible for his father 's death.This scheme is put to action after Hamlet finds out that his father was murdered. Hamlet finds out about this tragedy after coming in contact with his father’s ghost. With such alarming news Hamlet…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel The Great Gatsby explores his pessimistic views of the new age and high class using the different characters to represent the disjunction of the new technology and ideas in the Modern Age. Tom and Daisy represent the immoral illusion of wealthy and aristocratic society that destroys the community when resisting the change in the Modern Age. Gatsby also puts on an illusion of wealth but unlike Tom and Daisy, he becomes delusional because he believes in this…