Theme Of Obsession In The Old Man And The Sea

‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald presents Gatsby as a charming, well-mannered and mysterious. The narrator reveals his most unrealistic of his dreams, to recapture the past by luring Daisy. Some of Gatsby’s traits do not depict him as “admirable” and “pure” but instead as ‘obsessive’ and ‘dangerous’. In order to acknowledge Gatsby’s ‘obsessive’ and ‘dangerous’ side. It is important to understand how Gatsby’s dreams interact with reality and variety of symbolism used in the text.

Gatsby’s undying efforts to gain Daisy’s attention by throwing grand parties, advertising his wealth, and paying her visits never go unnoticed. The true characteristics of each class are displayed throughout the way they each respond to certain situations and the choices they choose to make. The characters lie, cheat, break laws, and murder. The Great Gatsby ends in a tragedy which F. Scott Fitzgerald foresees society is ultimately leading towards. The great Gatsby explores themes of social classes and the corruption of the American dream through the failure of poetic justice.

RACIAL HYPOCRISY IN THE NOVEL Racial Hypocrisy is one of the most important themes that Mark Twain talked in this novel. Hypocrisy is defined as “a pretence of having virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.” Huck’s father is one of the most remarkable examples of the hypocrisy in the novel. He is an abusive, racist and drunk father.

Friedrich Nietzsche once stated, “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” In the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel a young man, Pi, is enforced to survive through suffering and endure the grievances of a shipwrecked human being. After embarking on a journey with his family from India to Canada aboard a ship, the Tsimtsum, which holds a variety of zoo animals sinks. Facing the bitter truth that he does not have a family anymore, Pi must withstand the urge to mourn his family and seek survival. He is stranded with a boat of ferocious animals and hope.

This is precisely the sad truth about the protagonist. He has been chasing an idealistic dream in his mind, which might not actually even be possible, or exist; just like Gatsby. Kane 's wife leaves him, and he is left with one thing he does know and that’s “rosebud”.

Firstly, F. Scott Fitzgerald highlights some characteristics of Gatsby that suggest an obsessive personality, which can be seen in Gatsby’s desire to recreate his past moments with Daisy. Gatsby was in love with Daisy and in love with the memories stuck inside his head, "It was a strange coincidence," Nick said. "But it wasn 't a coincidence at all." "Why not?" "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.

Another common fear during the First World war was emasculation. The loss of masculinity is mainly visible in the patients ' consciousness (Harris, 1998), thus in patients ' relationships, but also in dreams and nightmares and it is visible in Owen 's poetry as well. An extract in Regeneration that discusses the emasculation of the soldiers can be found in chapter four. Pat Barker already foreshadows on page 29 that emasculation is going to be an important theme in the chapter, as Anderson wonders if being locked up can be a "emasculating experience". The scene when Sassoon and Graves go swimming really emphasises the topic emasculation.

The author of the story “Stolen Day” is Sherwood Anderson. The main character is a boy who believes he has inflammatory rheumatism. He tells himself he has this disease because he wants to go fishing instead of going to school. Both of these stories have many similarities and differences.

In Life of Pi, written by Yann Martel, are many examples of this theme. The first example of conflict in this novel could be man vs. self, Pi is at a constant battle with himself, because when he is out at sea he has to make many decisions, like deciding what is most important to him, staying alive or being true to himself. Another example of man vs. self would be in Pi’s second story without the animals, the hyena represents the cook. When the cook amputates the sailors infected leg, it was done to save his life but the cook admitted that he actually did it for bait but it was not effective enough as it was decayed, and the

Helena thinks Demetrius is messing with her, and trying to make fun of her love towards him. This is an example of Dramatic Irony because the reader or audience knows that Demetrius loves Helena due to the love potion that is from Puck. Soon after this conversation there is another example of Irony and at this point Helena is being fought over between Lysander and Demetrius because of Puck's potion. Puck turns Bottom's head into that of a donkey because as a prank because he enjoys playing tricks on mortals and fairies. The transformation is funny because Bottom's name is synonymous with "ass" and also because Bottom's personality is stubborn and pushy.

Authors use many different methods to connect with the readers. One of the most powerful and common method authors use is language. Language can be used to influence actions, ideas, or emotions of the reader. In the stories The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, and The Old Man and the Sea, these authors do exactly so and use language to keep the readers amused by the text. In the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character Dantes is wrongfully Imprisoned.

Goals can drive a man to great lengths to get what he wants even to the point of insanity and recklessness. Gatsby had great plans almost living the “American Dream” living in a waterfront mansion, acquiring endless amounts of money and even throwing lavish and exquisite parties and almost getting his “dream girl”. At the beginning of the story it seemed that Gatsby acquired greatness, but we later realize that the man we thought we knew was carrying out his life to get Daisy despite her marriage with Tom. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, the main character Gatsby had great plans for the future, but his ways of carrying out those plans defined his character as weak and menial, since he degraded his family, attempted to steal