The Great Gatsby & Hamlet Theme Comparison Mind Map
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
obsession with the past
Betrayal
Adultery
Murder
Disloyalty
"They were careless people Tom and \daisy they
smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back
into their money or their vast carelessness"(Fitzgerald
170)
"And to gather
so much as from
occasion you ay
glean,[Whether
aught to us
unknown afflicts
him thus] That,
opened, lies
within our
remedy
"Its after we started with Gatsby towards
the house that the gardener saw Wilson's
body a little way off the grass and the
holocaust was complete.(Fitzgerald 154)
Though yet of
Hamlet our dear
brothers death The
memory be green,
and that it us
befitted to bear our
hearts in grief the
whole kingdom to be
contracted in one
brow of
woe.(Shakespeare
1.2.1)
"God knows what you've been doing, everything
you've been doing. You may fool me buty you cant
fool god"(Fitzgerald 152)
She married. O, most
wicked speed, to post
with such dexterity to
incestuous sheets.
(Shakespeare 1.2.6)
"It doesn't
mateer
any more.
Just tell
him you
never
loved him
- and its all
wiped out
forever"
(Fitzgerald
125)
Inability to act
Unrequited love
Death
"Alas i am slain"(Shakespeare 3.4.31)
The 'death car' as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came
out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment,
and then disappeared around the next bend.(Fitzgerald 130)
"Love? his affections do not that way tend"(Shakespeare 3.1.162)
"Just tell him the
truth" (Fitzgerald
125
Now might i do it(pat) now he is
a-praying"(Shakespeare 3.3.77)