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EXAM PLAN - TGG & LTTA (love) - Coggle Diagram
EXAM PLAN - TGG & LTTA (love)
Intro
AO1 - Fitzgerald shows many aspects of love which is gender, idealised and isolating and the disastrous outcomes by the end of the text.
AO2 - “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity” Nick talking about Jordan Baker, dramatic irony
AO3 - Fitzgerald battled alcoholism
and died quite young during 1940. Showing the parallels of his tragic writing with the state of his life.
AO4 - Comparable to ‘Wuthering Heights whether Heathcliff really loved Katherine is unknown because of the cruel revenge he exacted.’
AO5 - Alternatively, showing love is more than romantic but even how the friendships dwindled away. Daisy didn’t bring Jordan with her at the end of the book when she moved with Tom. As well as Gatsby not being there as a friend to Nick because of his haunting ending.
Point 1
AO1 - In Tom and Daisy’s situation their love is pure and their strength and their love for each other never changed.Yet love and gender leads to women constantly being oppressed as Daisy is presented as inexpressive. Can be compared to La Belle Dame
AO2 - “Alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing” -La Belle, repetition a warning to men
“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have marriage between black and white”-TGG Tom, ironic he is being so moral despite his adultery.
AO3 - From the late 19th Century to early 20th century America moved towards modernism. It entailed a rebellion against previous moral rules, embraced nihilism and hedonism.
AO4 - “Daisy in fact is more victim than victimizer; she is victim first of Tom’s ‘crue’ power, but then of Gatsby’s increasingly depersonalised version of her” -Leland S Person. A feminist perspective showing the harm of the male gaze.
AO5 - Alternatively their affairs show their love for each other was quite weak. Also putting blame on Tom’s uncontrolled lust and his privilege rather than on Daisy’s personality.
Point 2
AO1 - Gatsby and Mr Wilson failed in love, representative of their idealised love that drove the women they loved away from them. They hold on to the past which can link to Sonnet 116.
AO2 - “One of these worn-out men” -Neighbour Michaelis describing George and it relates to the symbol of the valley of the ashes and the poverty stricken life
“Lov’s not Times foole” -S16, personification
AO3 - The Lost Generation was a group of writers in the early nineteenth century who had had their lives uprooted by war. They floated through life restlessly.
AO4 - A marxist perspective could argue social class is a leading factor to why the love they had didn’t last. Linking to bourgeoisie authority over the proletariat.
AO5 - “Unrequited love has no power” -Karl Marx
Point 3
AO1 - Nick shows how isolating love can be such as with Jordan. It’s quite platonic which can be compared to Who so list.
AO2 - “Draw from the deer” -WSL, he is tired and weary yet unable to withdraw from the pointless race, the deer is an extend metaphor for chasing someone who is unattainable
“Tangle back home” -imagery to convey his mess of a love life, after there were rumours he was to be engaged
AO3 - The 1920’s and 30’s was the jazz age. New people were acquiring wealth leading to the rise of the New money groups or the 'noveau riche' who weren't accepted by the Old Money
AO4 - Comparable to the commander in ‘The Handmaids Tale’ he can have any woman he wants yet he seeks close companionship
AO5 - “Wyatt's poems are so filled with verifiable historical data” -Sanders
Conclusion
AO1 - By the end of the text you see which kind of love has longevity and how other types are not worth pursuing.
AO2 - “This has been a story of the West, after all” -TGG, use of colloquial language to tell a story
AO3 - The prohibition era can be compared to the 21st century since it emphasised women’s liberation for instance there was lots of flappers who were women that had short hair and skirts who behaved ‘indecently’.
AO4 - Such as in ‘Jane Eyre’ Jane going back to Mr Rochester shows that second chances are possible
AO5 - Alternatively it can also put a focus on successful relationships like that of Tom and Daisy, their departure can show the significance of the journey of their relationship.