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- - - - Just after WWI
        
        allows for bond between Nick and Gatsby, both disillusioned and cynical after being met with brutality of war
        
        possibility of both suffering from and acting on their PTSD, generation after war know as 'The lost generation'
        
        can be argued war led many to pursue pleasure in 1920s hedonistic lifestyles of the East
        
        significance of medal being from Montenegro - gave out medals to prove identity after war (seen as small and insignificant) country represents gatsby
        
        demands of war accelerated America's industrial production, resulting in the 1920s economic boom
    - - 18th amendment prohibited sale and distribution of alcohol
      - rapid growth of organised crime networks, with high percentage of gangsters being from newly immigrated families of America such as the Irish, Jewish and Italian communities.
      - Arnold Rothstein was real gangster represented by Meyer Wolfsheim
    - - Out of the top 1% of wealthiest families, just a 10th of their money was as much as the 42% of poorest families made collectively in a year
      - Fitzgerald was very conscious of his background which as more 'humble' compared to Zelda and his friends at Princeton
    - - increased anxieties surrounding race, white men feared they were losing social status
      - white dominance erupted in 1919 Red Summer - race riots
      - black individuals were making way in new America - jazz was predominantly an African-American art form and made names for musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
    - - could be seen drinking and smoking freely, often in company of men and without chaperones
      - skirts became shorter and bobbed hair was the fashion for young women
      - women given vote under 19th amendment and have more freedom
  - - - was 'too new' and of its time
      - only began to pick up in 1940/50s when readers could see long lasting sense of American reality
    - - satirical 1st century figure, which suggests novel
        is a satirical jest at 1920s american greed
    - - about what a man will do to achieve a woman - lengths people go for the american dream
  - - - Gatsby being too poor for daisy was the same case with Fitzgerald and Zelda, he was refused until he could prove his wealth
        
        marriage wasn't the happiest, both fueled by parties and excessive drinking
      - direct quote from zelda: beautiful little fool
- - - - critics labelled his performance as only working because he himself was black, labelling his speeches as "not delivered with full understanding" pushing the notion that it was not acceptable for a black man to play a black man on stage???
  - - - this was centered around Desdemona and Iago's reason for revenge was sexual jealousy
      - Shakespeare took focus off Des and focused on tragedy with greater emotional value, leaving Iago's motive ambiguous and up for the audience to question
        
        in doing so, this abandoned the original cautionary emphasis on young women disobeying authority, potentially framing Shakespeare as in favor of female independence?
    - - book labels Africans as "supremely honest and noble minded" but also incredibly "credulous that believe matters impossible which are told to them"
      - Africanus was also a christian convert
  - - - different diversities interacting was not uncommon in Venice - cosmopolitan city
    - - wandering womb
        
        concept that women must be sexually satisfied and 'weighed down' otherwise they would seek satisfaction through another man
      - had no rights or autonomy
        
        expected to conform to men who hold power over them
        
        were expected to maintain honour of family
      - men ran all institutions, domestic and public so it was unusual to see a woman in a position of power
    - - deeply entrenched patriarchal societies, especially with concepts like identity being made in Renaissance: time of change
      - men expected to control women in their lives
        
        inability to do so challenged their position as a man
        
        it was embarrassing to have a woman transgress against you