Shakespeare and F Scott Fitzgerald wrote pieces that both reflect whether death restores moral order to society. William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Macbeth, a play about a power hungry man who will do anything to gain higher political position. F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel about a man who becomes friends with Jay Gatsby, a love hungry man who will do anything to achieve an already married woman. In comparison both pieces take place in a corrupt society, and major and minor
and the relations between them have long remained a subject of interest to historians, philosophers, and writers alike. As Karl Marx wrote in his Communist Manifesto, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” (4). A critical aspect of the relationship between such classes is the way the socioeconomic elite conduct themselves and how their actions are viewed by the rest of society. William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald