Main barriers are Also morality demonstrated by Hardy Unharmonious half rhymes Use of motif eyes Speaker is mouthpiece to
Intro religion, class, money, and Blake. Overarching point = the reinforce belief couple are not truly contrast to blindness criticise society? Nick’s C
(nouveau riche) and ultimate barrier that restricts permitted to be with each other. of main characters + complex diction voices
morality. (West/East uninhibited love is humanity’s need to their privilege. misogynistic rhetoric, in
egg). control and tame love, either by order to subdue other
creating social classes and imposing characters in novel?
religion.
Social class is first ‘holy grail’, metaphor highlights stark “Catering Care”, alliteration alludes Fitz was critical of Fitz was in the Lost Gen like
barrier to love. Act of division in class. Upward social to hunger, also sexual desire. class in America. Hemingway, Disillusioned
courtship is akin to the mobility, class was fluid. Fitz uses Personification of love, tone Marriage to Zelda only about WW1, lost sense of
semantic field of size for Tom, resigned + melancholic. Cyclical purpose.. Huck Finn, P
animalistic pursuit of possible when Gatsby
“hard”, “supercilious”. Reflects Tom’s structure serves to illustrate racism in 20th Century o
P1 women by men. insecurity of loss of power, white impending sense of doom, thought became rich. 19th America. Mark Twain. s
Evident in Gatsby and supremacy. Women drifting like of inhibiting social norms is futile. Amendment = women Wilson and ‘fantastic farm’ a
Daisy. Poem: Hardy “anchored balloons”, social mobility. Iambic pentameter - highlight emancipated, reminiscent of Eliot’s ‘The
illustrates true love is Members of the aristocracy, top of the divide? Dash suggests there is a freedom to vote. Waste Land’ - spiritual m
thwarted by social social hierarchy, no danger of losing distance/uncertainty. Religious decay. Juxtaposition of
convention. Church their place as they are “anchored on a imagery “spheres”. 2nd stanza - the Hardy yearned for normal association w/ lush,
balloon” Weightlessness because atmosphere now becomes cold, unattainable Henniker. revitalising valley. Tom has
and doctrines inhibiting
absence of burdens. Cross ref to static and negative. Assonance: Religious dogma, adverbs, ‘jovially’, vs Wilson e
sex, love controls Daisy’s voice “was a deathless suggests regret or longing. is ‘anaemic’. drained of
Henniker was
everything, hence the song,” wealthy are, again, able to live Caesura: echoes the idea that love vitality without materialism?
aristocrat vs working-
word ‘ministers’. a weightless lifestyle akin to floating. has stopped. It will not develop. class Hardy.’Laws of Fallen woman in Madame te
‘Palsied fly’, unable to Goddess were able to lure in and trap Regular rhyme scheme gives the Men’, eg conventions Bovary, fallen from God’s
escape, an image of men by using their beauty or beautiful poem a sense of completion, surrounding divorce. grace. D
thwarted love. singing voices. contrasting that relationship never
met its potential. Anaphora ‘O’
P2 Morality. True love is “perishable breath” - lose the Biblical Allusion to Garden of Prohibition laws to Loss of God fearing
experienced through idealistic perception of her floating Eden/Song of Songs. Garden curb drinking. Americans. T J Eckleburg, co
nature, but is within his imagination. Metaphorically imagery is metaphor for sexual Fundamentalist dominance of a
destroyed by the kills those visions, degrading to Enjoyment. Garden was place of Christians stop flapper commercialism, revered like m
institution of religion. reality. uninhibited sexual expression. women. a deity. Gatsby seen as JC? R
Gatsby culminates in “he had no real right to touch her ‘Garden’, place of primal emotion. The various characters’
death; one accidental hand” - class and economic standing “Green”, associated with Blake revered obsession with the past, w
death, one murder, circumvents barrier and takes growth, fertility. Represented Bible but hostile to the as well as Nick’s