Myrtle Vs Gatsby

In every story you’ve ever heard we find archetypes, we find the “damsel in distress”, “the savior”, “the wise old leader”, “the forbidden lovers”. These famously known figures are found everywhere. We see these very precise archetypes especially in William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, and in Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Now, we are going to look at some of the biggest similarities between the two stories. The first thing we see here is the pair of lovers. In each story we find two young people who are in love, sadly though, both loves have been forbad.

Roxane tells Cyrano she “loves his nose(Schepisi)” and after they kiss. Kissing in 1897 was considered very scandalous but the time the movie was produced it was a normal thing to do. This scene of the two lovers also is based on the idea of realism. The time difference also affected these two scenes and the actions the people take. Also, the time difference affected the whole ending of either the movie and

Mary Shelley uses two male figures as her main characters in the novel (Shelley 25). Another example is the view of mankind versus the view of material. In today’s world, people have a close relationship with their electronics (Everdel). This causes people to be very materialistic. As opposed to the nineteenth century, there is closer relationships with people to people rather

www.dsadventuregear.blogspot.co.za 3 Personal Life Despite her drop dead gorgeous looks and smoking body Sharon has been unlucky in love; racking up numerous engagements and two failed marriages. Her first husband was Micheal Greenburg, a television producer who she married in 1984 but separated from just three years later. They were divorced in 1990. In 1993 she became involved with Bill MacDonald, the co-producer of Sliver. MacDonald was so infatuated with her that he left his wife to become engaged to her but they parted ways less than a year later.

Leonardo DiCaprio, although brilliant in movies such as Titanic and The Wolf Of Wall Street, lacked the depth needed to play a character as mysterious and complex as Gatsby. Part of the blame, however, lies with the directors of the 2013 edition of The Great Gatsby, who allowed the audience to see Gatsby’s face long before we are introduced to him in the movie. The mystery of who Gatsby was pervaded more clearly through the beginning of the older version of the

Writers and producers made a lot of pieces talking about WWI during the 20st century but they often approached in many different ways the theme of disillusionment. The Grand Illusion by Jean Renoir and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque each have their own way of talking about disillusionment. The novel is more realistic in describing the perspective of Paul, the protagonist, and what he felt when he discovered the truth about war whereas the movie gives a more allegorical point of view of the war with romantic scenes and no scenes in the “real” front. But an important fact to compare both the movie and the novel is that the authors both participated in WWI but not on the same side and they both got wounded a number of times. The two works talk about disillusionment in two different ways, from two different perspectives and yet they convey the same message about disillusionment; war is never as honorable as it is shown throughout the media.

The characters and themes of both Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Midnight in Paris’ and Woody Allen’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ make not only amazing parallels of each other, but increasingly accurate interpretations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original novel ‘The Great Gatsby’. Both directors take Fitzgerald’s original west egg characters, and not only bring them to life, but show the true depth and impact they have on each other and their “perfect world”. In the set-up of ‘Midnight in Paris’ both characters Gil and Inez start off as a perfect couple living their best life. Allen’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ lays out Tom and Daisy as a troubled couple that puts on a façade behind wealth and integrity. In my revision of both Allen’s and Lurhmann’s interpretation of the original novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ I will make the connections of both characters and themes and show the effectiveness of the films as representations of Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’.

The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story is about Gatsby a man lost in love doing everything he can to get back the women he lost and loves, Daisy, even though she is already married and has a family with Tom. Nick Carraway is the cousin of Daisy, a friend of Tom, and meets Gatsby at one of his parties he also narrates the story. In the book, Daisy is a flirtatious, lovely, and confused woman and cannot decide over Tom, whom she is married to and Gatsby, who she claims she loved but has now come back after 5 years to renege the time he lost without her. The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann and Midnight in Paris by woody Allen are both very similar to the original F. Scott Fitzgerald although there are some differences. The Great

"And what 's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time ” (Fitzgerald 252). For whatever reason Tom thinks thats its completely normal or acceptable to behave the way that he does, Treating Daisy the way he does. George for the most part handles his attitude with women in a more moderate way having a more respectable reaction then how Tom handles it. “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick.” (Fitzgerald

Similarly in the movie The Titanic Rose is in an arranged marriage by her parents to a rich man, but she loved Jack and he was who she picked for herself. Some people like the emotional connection in marriages and when they feel lonely they could seek the emotional connection with another person. In the book The Great Gatsby Tom is out with other women and at parties leaving Daisy lonely and

Both Daisy and Nick are wallflowers and were pawns in the story. Nick was the man who helped out Gatsby arrange him to reunite with Daisy in chapter 5 and had to deal with all of the drama throughout Tom and Gatsby during his summer in East Egg and West Egg. Daisy is shown to be dependent on love. During the course of the novel, she went from Gatsby, to tom, back to Gatsby, and back to Tom. “I did love him once-but I loved you too.” (Fitzgerald 132) Contrary to what others may believe, Jordan is the exact opposite of the typical 1920’s woman.