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GRAPES AND GATSBY AO5 - Coggle Diagram
GRAPES AND GATSBY AO5
WOMEN
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GATSBY
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Feminist criticism - TGG as a demonstration of the depleted agency of women, reduced to aesthetic components of men's lives
WEALTH/POVERTY
GRAPES
'the poor are held in a position where they fight every day for survival, preventing them from engaging in political activism for a better world'
'their happiness (in Weedpatch) is cautious, as they know winter is coming'
GATSBY
'the Wilsons are condemned to stay poor, and the Buchanans rich'
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THE AMERICAN DREAM
GATSBY
'TGG is a cautionary tale...of how the American Dream is so easily corrupted by the temptations of a consumerist lifestyle'
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GRAPES
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'the men take their dignity and their self-respect from their closeness to the earth. When this relationship is disengaged, they lose their identity'
CAPITALISM, CRIME, GREED
GRAPES
'the exploitation by small businesses clarifies the cycle of mistreatment that the migrants experience'
'Steinbeck argues that American nationalism and unfettered capitalism cannot coexist as it divides and conquers the population'
Marxist criticism - TGOW as a damning criticism of the inequality and moral corruption that stems from capitalist America
GATSBY
'Gatsby only has Nick and his father to mourn him, because the consumerism of American society preached the importance of wealth and possessions rather than the richness of human contact'
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SETTINGS
GRAPES
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'the men take their dignity from their closeness to the earth, so when this connection is disengaged, they lose their identity'
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FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
GATSBY
'Gatsby only has Nick and his father to mourn him, as the American society preached the importance of wealth and possessions rather than the richness of human contact'
GRAPES
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'Steinbeck argues that nationalism and capitalism cannot coexist as they divide and conquer the American people'
'Pa's decline and Ma's assumption of leadership within the family illustrate the negative inversion of Steinbeck's theme of human dignity as a product of human identity'
OUTSIDERS AND MIGRANTS
GRAPES
'the exploitation by small businesses clarifies the cycle of mistreatment that the migrants experience'
'the poor are held in a position where they might fight every day for survival, preventing them from engaging in political activism for a better world.'
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