Elizabeth Barrett Browning and F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in different eras, so by comparing the perspectives they convey in their texts we are able to evaluate how humanities values and beliefs have transformed over time. Furthermore, we can recognize the influence they have on the outlook of modern day values. ‘Sonnets of the Portuguese’ is a suite of poems written by Barrett-Browning during the Victorian Era, and establishes the importance of morality and religion in the expression of idealised
The Great Jeremiad The jeremiad’s name comes from the prophet Jeremiah from the Old Testament. He never had anything nice to say and only had biblical lamentations. The speaker laments society and its morals while prophesying society’s downfall. Jeremiads are seen in The Scarlet Letter, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, “What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?”, and The Great Gatsby. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter is one novel demonstrating a jeremiad. The Puritans believed
The Great Gatsby, was a narrative novel written in the 1920’s by a young author named F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story portrayed many of the experiences that Fitzgerald experienced in his own life during the roaring twenties such as all the parties and drinking that was going on. It also accurately showed the pressures that everyone went through to become successful and achieve the american dream. Fitzgerald took these life experiences and represented them in this book, which after his death was named