Exploring setting In the Great gatsby 15.03.11

Contents:

1 – Homework
2 - Symbolism
3 – Chapter 2
4 – Symbolism from chapter 2
5 - Appendix

1 – Homework (Due 22nd Tuesday):

(This is a technological homework today e.g. record your voice, make a video etc)

Discuss the settings of Ch1 and 2:
Valley of Ashes
Myrtle’s apartment
East Egg (Chapter 1)

Discuss:
Quotations
Repeated images (Motifs)
Mood & atmosphere (Nick)
Contrasts with East Egg & Tom and Daisy’s house
Explain what you think these shows. (Make links to the rest of the novel)

You can use this to record your voice (kindly found by sir just click on record)
http://www.vocaroo.com/

Send to:
a.sadgrove@londonacademy.org.uk

Aa) Question: On Mariana (30 minutes):

Focusing on Narrative
(Note: Your cherished sheets will help you):

How does Tennyson tell the story in Mariana?

Self asses with Mark scheme (If you don't have this Go to sir)

2 – Symbolism (Represents another idea):

What do you think these words symbolise within The Great Gatsby here are some examples the class came up with:

Green Light:

· New start
· Active/ activity
· Eerie
· Mystery
· Movement
· Jealousy / Envy

Eyes:

· Seeing/ soul
· Vanity (See only through this)
· Beauty
· Seeing isn’t always believing
· Observation
· Intellect/ reason
· Identity

Egg:

· Identity
· Birth (Nick new start)
· Fragility
· Feminine
· Innocence
· Innocent
· Protection
· Youth

Ashes:

· Death/ rebirth
· Hope?
· Desolate
· Black/ grey

Cars:

· Movement of time
· Wealth/ status
· Modernism/ industry
· Materialism
· Mobility


3 – Chapter 2:

Brief summary:
Tom and Nick go to meet Tom’s mistress (Myrtle Wilson) meeting George Wilson owner of Cars bought and sold. Myrtle slips out with Tom and Nick to go to New York her apartment inviting friends round which are filled with lies, furthermore arguments break out, Nick wishes to escape Tom breaks her nose.

Opening Paragraph (First impressions):

· Isolation
· Poverty
· Depression
· Desolation
· Nothing being possible
· Industrialized areas
· Soulless
· Opposite of the “Jazz age”
· Boring/ dull
· Disillusion “Death of American dream”

Take note of the difference between this chapter and the first chapter Fitz has a cinematic writing style. As in chapter one you’re left off with not knowing what happened after when chapter one ends and find yourself in a new scene.

How Characters are portrayed:

Tom: forceful, imperative speech, physical presence, energetic, strong, and aggressive, corrupt, reference to epigraph in front

Nick: Not used to poverty, naive, judgemental,

George Wilson: Dominated by wife, Frail, lost “light in eyes”, “his wife moved straight through him like a ghost,”

Myrtle Wilson: Dominant, classy, vitality, “blocks out light” cause for trouble, tries to fit in, materialistic,

Gatsby: Images of him through enigmas, brief encounters/ glimpses (Chapter 1)

Important Quote to take note:

What do you think this means?

“I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” – Page 42 (green book) & Page 24 (Blue books) The Great Gatsby

Within: A character within the novel
Without: the narrator of the novel

4 - Symbolism from Chapter 2:

The billboard, mentioned in pg 29

“But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic – their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under the sun and rain, brood over the solemn dumping ground.”

Suggests as a godlike figure looking down from the heavens, God is being commercialised.

5 - Appendix

The Jazz Age:

http://academyenglish12.blogspot.com/2011/03/great-gatsby-contextbackground.html


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