HELP with Gatsby and Browning (1 Viewer)

[ray7]

I can't find a connection or common themes between The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barret Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Can anyone shed some light!?

 

[bijandarabi]

link them through:
1: how they represent their time period
2: how the challenge their time period (EBB challenges roles of womoen Gatsby challenges the careless and immoral society)
3: values presented in the texts i.e. idealised love
4: how the characters obtain/keep their sense of self (could use EBB-Daisy for this one)

 

[spratt]

Can also link hope and love.

 

[countingdown]

does anyone have any notes or even hints? please? im soo screwed for trials.

 

[InaudibleMelody]

link them through:
1: how they represent their time period
2: how the challenge their time period (EBB challenges roles of womoen Gatsby challenges the careless and immoral society)
3: values presented in the texts i.e. idealised love
4: how the characters obtain/keep their sense of self (could use EBB-Daisy for this one)

Thankyou! That adds heaps more to what I have :]


And remember don't talk about say 'love' within both texts, but talk about how the love is presented, like what aspect of love- so another example as well as idealised love is unrequited love. Our teacher made that pretty clear to us.

Gonna start studying now for the English Module exam tomorrow

 

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The Top Notes guide lists linking ideas like:

• The power of love
• The constraints upon love
• The possibility of ideal love
• The inevitability and importance of death
• The finality of death
• Mortal struggles
• The negativity and hope in life

 

[craiga]

Um wondering how does barret browning value hope in her sonnets?

 

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Um wondering how does barret browning value hope in her sonnets?

Not sure what you mean by "value" hope...but:

• love is seen as the source of hope
• hope for love gives her spiritual and physical strength
• hope is embodied by Browning/the man