The Great Gatsby - Romanticism 5.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureRomanticismUniversityNone Created by: emmythenotsogreat2014Created on: 03-01-14 23:01 Courtly Love Influenced by Mariolatry - worship of the lady led to enoblement of character 1 of 25 Arthurian Legends The knight could undertake trials of chivalry because of the love for her lady 2 of 25 Paradox of Doctrine Had to be extramarital relationship - movement condoned adultery which was blasphemous 3 of 25 Knights - Beyond Love Often knights would seek something beyond the love of a beautiful woman 4 of 25 The Grail Quest Nick likens Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy to the Grail Quest 5 of 25 The Dream & its Betrayal The dream is betrayed by its inability to transcend or escape the physical world 6 of 25 Dan H. McCall Greatest threat to the dream of beauty is the overabundance of beauty 7 of 25 Overabundance of Beauty Leaves too little to the imagination and prevents a recreation of the ideal 8 of 25 Romantic Modernism Romantic Modernism 9 of 25 Separateness Gatsby emanates from his essential separateness 10 of 25 Gatsby & Honour Gatsby has had to lie to himself in order to maintain his honour 11 of 25 This Led to Gatsby's Last Quixotic Gesture Taking the blame for Myrtyle's death 12 of 25 Trouble with Romantic Chivalry It creates idols out of fallible human beings 13 of 25 Balanced View Should be taken of a hero - balances Romantic views against the needs of a man or social creature 14 of 25 Lehan Time is the real enemy in the Romantic world 15 of 25 Gatsby's Quest via Daisy To gain a realm beyond time 16 of 25 Transforming the Moment Gatsby hopes to transform it into something deathless 17 of 25 To Arrest Time The Romantic seeks to transform reality into the ideal world - where reality is but a shadow 18 of 25 Hopeless Yearning For a total beauty man cannot achieve 19 of 25 Shelley The desire of the moth for the star 20 of 25 Heroic & Impossible An impossible effort to merge the timebound (material) with the timeless (spiritual) 21 of 25 Language Taken From Romantic poetry and Biblical discourse 22 of 25 The Self Against Society Internalises his guilty, grows isolated and becomes his own victim 23 of 25 Arthur Miller The self that wills and desires destroys the self that lives 24 of 25 Freudian Desire To revert back to an earlier state 25 of 25
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