Themes in The Great Gatsby and Hamlet

The theme of Corruption within conflict
1. The Great Gatsby
2. Hamlet
3. INSANITY
  1. Deceit
    1. "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to"
    2. “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon.”
  2. Gender
    1. "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. "
    2. "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
    3. Vengence
      1. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
      2. "It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off the grass, and the holocaust was complete."
4. GREED
  1. relationships
    1. "Daisy, that's all over now, it doesn't matter any more. Just tell him the truth- that you never loved him-"
    2. "She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not nor it cannot come to good: But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue."
    3. Recklessness
      1. "Does it not, think thee, stand me now upon— He that hath killed my king and whored my mother, Popped in between th' election and my hopes, Thrown out his angle for my proper life (And with such cozenage!)—is ’t not perfect conscience To quit him with this arm? And is ’t not to be damnd To let this canker of our nature come In further evil?"
      2. "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatthe retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness"ures and
      3. Entitlement/Power
        "My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen. May one be pardoned and retain th' offense? In the corrupted currents of this world Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice"
        " Her voice is full of money"
5. REALISM
  1. Appearance vs. Reality
    1. "He hurried the phrase 'educated at Oxford', or swallowed it, or chocked on it, as though it had bothered him before. And with this doubt, his whole statement fell to pieces,"
    2. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!"
    3. Past vs.Present
      1. " It was a strange coincidence, ... But it wasn't a coincidence at all, Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay"
      2. “Motive of the revenge morality concerns not vengeance, but reversal of the flow of time”
      3. Family
        "His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself"
        "look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within two hours"

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