has ever lived in the world has ended up dead. Six feet under, no longer breathing. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the two main characters Jay Gatsby and Captain Ahab respectively, are obsessed on a single unattainable entity that leads them to their eventual demise. Gatsby's obsession is driven through his love for Daisy, who has a husband. Captain Ahab is obsessed with seeking revenge on the great white whale Moby Dick for dismantling his leg from him during
The 1920’s were a time filled with superfluous attitudes and quixotic ideologies. The journey for love was often perturbed by societies continuous and ongoing pursuit of desire. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, there are a plethora of instances where the longing of voluptuous desires supersedes any feelings of authentic love. Fitzgerald intends the readers to extricate the concepts of love and desire and to understand which of these leads to fulfilment and which leads to anguish. Love is perhaps the greatest
The Great Gatsby was written during the Roaring Twenties when prohibition, bootlegging, flappers, speakeasies and materialistic culture were the epitome of that era. Everything was over the top because America had a flourishing economy in the aftermath of WWI. The Great Gatsby is categorized under the Modernist literary movement during this time there was a separation from the conventional American ideals. The Modernist movement occurred around the 1910s to the 1960s when industrialization was starting