The Great Gatsby

Composers are substantially reflected by their personal, social and historical backgrounds throughout their texts. This is evident by comparing and contrasting how differing composers have depicted the changing attitudes of particular aspects. Love and hope are represented in diverging ways, F. Scott Fitzgerald in his 1926 American novel, ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning in her various personal poems composed in the nineteenth century ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald expresses how love cannot stand out in a hopeless post WWI society who are defined by materialism and capitalism with the growing rejection of prior beliefs of love with their opportunistic desires. In contrast, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning uses her religious and conservative Victorian context with Sonnets from the Portuguese explores the reliability of ideal love and hope based on her own life experiences and personal beliefs. Thus, both Barrett-Browning and Fitzgerald have developed differing values towards idea such as love and hope shaped by their context
The importance of love with an idealistic vision appears as an integral in both texts The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnets. Love in the Great Gatsby as represented by Gatsby is compromised and there is no true idealistic love. Fitzgerald depicts thoroughly the significance of the idea of love and the society at the time having very materialistic beliefs. However despite the materialistic and corrupted world of the roaring twenties surrounding Jay Gatsby is still able to venture out to the idea of love, which prompts him to devoting his whole life for lustful intuition. Gatsby frequently expresses his strong infatuation towards Daisy, comparably to Browning who persistently states the love she has for her lover. Gatsby’s hyperbolic expression states that extent of passion he endured when he kissed Daisy, he “forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his...