Love Versus the Idea of Love In many instances infatuation with an idea of something or someone can mislead many into believing in a false interpretation of love In F Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby the main character Jay Gatsby is a victim of such deceit A charming affluent girl named Daisy Buchanan attracts him at a young age and his desire for her grows as they take separate paths in life Although Gatsby proclaims his love for Daisy what he fails to mention is why he has these feeli
The narrative technique used in Heart of Darkness is one of a story within a story Although the primary narrator is Marlow there is a second narrator unnamed who tells us about Marlow telling his story There is also a third voice added to this narration which can be considered the author himself who is really telling the whole story Beyond these three dominant points of view are the individual viewpoints of the books major characters Each has a different perspective on Kurtz These perspectives
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and is about the two basic humans drives which are death and desire The two main drives could be representative of the state of America after WW1 a country wavering between a dying past and the adolescent new world The reader viewer of the play will experience these two basic drives through the characters culture background imagery music and symbols For the characters to have the direct effect of representing the texts underlying