also provide a feeling of strength from within the culture.
Deaf and deaf-blind people take great pride in their history, as well they should. In 1000 B.C., the...
the love of the game? The players are willing, but the owners are blinded by the great green dollar sign. In truth everyone involved in sports today are not only...
his famous sentence: "An eye for an eye and the whole world will be blind." Several other great men have also spoken in the same vein.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth...
tears! O me! for the swift joy, too great to live, That only bloomed one hour! ... , flash of the lightning, Brilliant and blind, These thou linkest, the world to mould...
they, Tomas's parents, would no longer take an interest in theirs. They made a great show of maintaining good relations with their daughter-in-law and trumpeted...
Blindness is Not Greatness
The 20th century was the “Golden Age” and the “Jazz Age” in America. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered as the most beautiful and sad in the Jazz age, but it reflects the true society in that age. The tragic plot and beautiful language make this mysterious and fascinating novel to be one of the best creations in the 20th century. However, the title itself is already controversial, is Gatsby great? The argument has never stopped. In Nick Carraway’s opinion as the narrator, he absolutely has fantastic personality. “Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction---Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn” (Fitzgerald 2). He changes his name, goes to big city to find his dream. Five years after, he even gives up his life for his lost love. Is this dream worthy enough for Gatsby to give up everything? As a matter of fact, it is just a dream. He does not want to believe that it is just a dream. I would say that is his blindness rather than greatness.
Five year ago, he had a brief but unforgettable love with Daisy. After him coming back, he still thinks that he can complete the incomplete love with Daisy even though she is already married. “‘I wouldn’t ask too much of her,’ I ventured. ‘You can’t repeat the past’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can’ ” (Fitzgerald 110). He wants to repeat the past, in order to fill the blankness of past five years. “He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his head” (Fitzgerald 110). All he hopes is looking for the time, going back to five years ago, skipping the affliction of yearning. In other word, he is too obsessed with the past memory.
According to some criticism, Gatsby chases too much, money, love, and the past time. However, he is just a man who immerses in his past memory. “He wanted nothing less...
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