Wealth
- Created by: DaisyR13
- Created on: 04-06-14 11:46
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- Wealth
- The Great Gatsby
- The Consumer Society
- Cars, Airplanes, Skyscrapers
- The 21st century is also considered to be a consumer society
- People will still be able to identify with the novel
- "We keep growing with great excess" Leonardo DiCaprio - Gatsby in 2013 film
- "It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel"
- Links with money and wealth but also associated with low value
- Daisy was "gleaming like silver"
- This simile gives the reader the idea that Daisy is as precious as silver
- "Her voice is full of money"
- This metaphor gives the idea that she was born with money so it shows through her voice and so money isn't something that can be separated from the body
- This is the reason that everyone can tell that Gatsby is "new money"
- This sort of "new money" wasn't liked by people who were supposedly "old money"
- "Gatsby lays bare the empty, tragic heart of the self-made man" Lev Grossman
- This is the reason that everyone can tell that Gatsby is "new money"
- This metaphor gives the idea that she was born with money so it shows through her voice and so money isn't something that can be separated from the body
- The Consumer Society
- Metaphysical Poetry
- To My Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship
- "For thou art all that I can prize"
- Lucasia is all she needs, doesn't need wealth
- Katherine Philips was said to have mainly shown her poems to a group of friends
- "For thou art all that I can prize"
- To My Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship
- Rapture
- Absence
- The late 20th century and 21st century seem to be consumed with expensive things
- Duffy was born into a poor part of Glasgow so would have learnt not to need all these expensive things
- "Is up to date" Margaret Reynolds
- Doesn't seem to be up to date with the idea that wealth is quite an important thing in love
- Duffy was born into a poor part of Glasgow so would have learnt not to need all these expensive things
- Doesn't seem to be up to date with the idea that wealth is quite an important thing in love
- "birds" "bee" "trees" "river" "fish" "butterfly"
- Constant use of nature imagery, this motif gives the idea that the only thing needed in love is nature and the only that reminds Duffy of her lover is nature
- The late 20th century and 21st century seem to be consumed with expensive things
- Unloving
- "Winter trees" "Stone" "River"
- This is another use of nature that shows that even at the end of a relationship they don't need wealth to learn from the relationship
- "Winter trees" "Stone" "River"
- Absence
- The Great Gatsby
- Daisy was "gleaming like silver"
- This simile gives the reader the idea that Daisy is as precious as silver
- "birds" "bee" "trees" "river" "fish" "butterfly"
- Constant use of nature imagery, this motif gives the idea that the only thing needed in love is nature and the only that reminds Duffy of her lover is nature
- Absence
- The late 20th century and 21st century seem to be consumed with expensive things
- "Is up to date" Margaret Reynolds
- Doesn't seem to be up to date with the idea that wealth is quite an important thing in love
- Doesn't seem to be up to date with the idea that wealth is quite an important thing in love
- "Is up to date" Margaret Reynolds
- The late 20th century and 21st century seem to be consumed with expensive things
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