Ngo 1 Catherine Mr. Casteel English CP 3 Period 6 16 May 2022 Modernism / The Great Gatsby Data Sheet FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS (Essentials of the ISM): Realism: 1. Modernists believed in and praised the protagonist or someone who would not generally fit in. 2. Modernists viewed the weak hero who showed elegance under pressure as something to strive for. 3. Humanism was emphasized above nationalism, and cultural relativism was promoted. 4. Modernists focused on the arts and used them to promote social and political change. 5. Modernists believed that when one worked hard enough, one might achieve the American Dream. 6. Modernists addressed how people were both a part of and responsible for nature. 7. Modernists considered the world to be peaceful and governed by God's will, and that each person and object in it served a precise purpose. 8. Modernists challenge the Victorian divide between civilized and savage people. 9. Modernists believed that people created their own meaning for life. 10. Modernists believe that life is chaotic. HOW IS THIS “ISM” A REACTION TO THE PREVIOUS ISM? Each needs to be answered in a separate paragraph (At least 5 sentences...you will have 3 paragraphs). Is there overlap in the meanings? What are the differences/similarities? Where it come from? Modernism: 1. Naturalists believed that nature and all other forces were completely unconcerned with man's actions. Naturalists showed humans as hopeless in times of suffering and fate was the only choice to save someone. Naturalism wanted to show things realistically, but it was mainly concerned with determinism and people's power to control their fate. Humans are being controlled by the environment, heredity, and social situations. In contrast, realism focused on everyday life. 2. Naturalism is a harsher view of the influence of the social environment on determinism. Modernism is a departure from previous uses of language and form traditions. The country was faced with several new changes and movements, including flappers, women's rights, and an overflow of prohibition-era partying and rebellion in the years leading up to the late 1920s. The Jazz Age and the concept of a new American hero impacted modernists greatly. All of this led up to the Great Depression, during which the modernist movement continued. Ngo 2 3. To show wealth is to demonstrate morals as greatness the wealthy are cruel. To emphasize the reciprocal of the belief that alcohol prohibition and drinking were cancerous to society, the upper class lives by different rules and does not believe in punishment. Fitzgerald and the Modernists argue that not drinking is a form of cancer for the poor. Alcohol should not be distributed to the poor. Senators, judges, business owners, capitalists, performers, cops, and commissioners all consume alcohol. They have no problems selling or supplying it. The conflict destroyed Americans' belief in their government, and many now thought they could not be trusted. People were disillusioned with their own countries. This triggered the thought. many people's imaginations to escape the realities of their existence and resort to partying. As a result, many people turned to drugs, sex, and other vices. With illegal alcohol consumption, many people had lost trust in the lie dreams of the American dream, and so they chose to live a life of adventure and concentrate only on themselves. Ngo 3 Ngo 4 Other Information: Modern Fiction (Blue Parachute Textbook 453-461): (Complete Sentences) 1.Authors provide stories that follow a predictable structure, the expected process from beginning to middle to finish and flashbacks are occasionally used by writers to disrupt the normal series of events. 2.Bierce, born in Ohio, in 1842 was the youngest child in a big farming family and self educated by studying in his father's little library. 3.The Owl Creek bridge represents a point of connection and development. 4.Confederate soldiers or allies presumably destroyed the bridge to prevent the North from moving farther into enemy territory. 5.Bierce was an editor of the San Francisco News Letter and wrote newspaper columns,memories , and several short stories. 6.Peyton Farquhar death was being hanged because of trying to destroy the bridge. 7.Farquhar learns that there is no dignity or peace in war. 8.An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge setting is in the Deep South during the Cold War. 9.Farquhar who loved the idea of the separation of Southern states from the Union and was passionately dedicated to the Southern cause. 10.The theme of the short story is disillusionment and death. Crash Course - Roaring 20’s: (Complete Sentences) 1.The 1920s also saw an increase in conflict between scientific literacy and religious ideas in the United States. 2.John Scopes' trial in Tennessee in 1925 he was prosecuted for breaking the law prohibiting teaching evolution, which the ACLU had pushed him to do as a test case for free speech. 3. In the 1920s, the government-aided business growth by not governing it at all and is known as "laissez-faire" capitalism. 4. The federal government agreed to business lobbyists' preferred policies, such as lower taxes on personal income and business profits and measures to weaken union power. 5.In the 1920s, the Republican Party controlled politics. 6. Harding himself was not very unethical, but he chose the wrong friends. 7.The 1920s were also significant because of a lot of government corruption, the majority of which may be linked to Warren G. Harding's administration. 8. Around 1929, half of all American households acquired an automobile. 9. In the 1920s, cars were nicknamed Scootaloo pooping chariots. 10. Before World War I, the American film industry migrated to Hollywood because the property was cheap and abundant. Crash Course - Gatsby #1: (Complete Sentences) 1. The last chapter of The Great Gatsby is one of the saddest chapters in American literature, demonstrating how difficult it is to differentiate between guilt and innocence, and how terribly unfair our society is . 2. Some claim that Gatsby couldn't achieve the American Dream since he didn't earn his money truthfully. 3. Nick was raised in the Midwest before moving to New York's West Egg, but something happened that caused him to return to the Midwest. 4.Nick is fond of using tough talk, such as when introducing Jay Gatsby. 5. Nick is wealthy, and he became wealthy not through hard labor but through having a wealthy ancestor who hired someone to serve in the Civil War on his behalf, allowing Nick's ancestor to spend the Civil War making money. 6. Romeo , Edward Cullen , and Henry VIII, who may have given up on several of his wives Ngo 5 but never on the idea of love. 7.Daisy shares a story about her butler, who used to polish silver for a large family in the city at all hours of the day and night until the acidic silver polish destroyed his nose. 8.Fitzgerald uses gold to separate the ideas of riches and glory, instead associating prosperity with corruption, amorality, and death. 9.Wealth was considered as fundamentally good in the roaring twenties and now; it was seen as an end that justified most ways. 10.The novel Huck Finn is about slavery and extreme level of inequality. Crash Course - Gatsby#2: (Complete Sentences) 1. Fitzgerald did not picture people walking on the moon, let alone creating false fake flowers, the descriptions here are beautiful and gorgeous. 2. The novel's language raises Gatsby's achievements and tragedies to the level of real epic poems, giving Gatsby a kind of unoriginal magnificence. 3. One thing Gatsby has in common with Romeo and Juliet is their obsession with managing time. 4. Gatsby is a low-status individual, although one born into a world that claims not to care or believe in such issues. 5. Fitzgerald discovered the right metaphor for American corruption and indulgence. 6. People of high status are brought down by negative qualities. 7. Shakespeare used exaggerated poetic language to make us care about Romeo and Juliet and support them rather than merely respecting them. 8.Everyone desires a carefree existence , but Fitzgerald shows us the misery of this carefree existence, how Tom and Daisy's inability to care is more awful than plain cruelty. 9.Romeo and Juliet, where the lovers are killed and Verona is then repaired. 10.Daisy Buchanan was driving the car, but Gatsby chose to blame himself. He's screwed because he lives in a social system that celebrates illegal booze while criticizing a sober bootlegger. FIVE WORD SUMMARY: Modernism Dangerous Addictive Development Gain Selfish Write a 10 sentence paragraph summarizing this ism using the five words listed above. Underline the words. This isn’t copied from the notes! Ngo 6 Modernists believe that technology is dangerous and addictive. The modernists desired an independent sense of self in which they could only rely on themselves. They drifted from faith and religious values, as well as other political and social beliefs, including their previous high level of faith in their government.They desired development, which they accomplished through the growth of cultural movements and a significant increase in the arts.They desired the transformation of society, which they achieved through the growth of cultural movements and a significant increase in the arts. The modernists did not want to sit around and be told what to do or what was good and wrong since they had made their own decisions because they had lost hope in those ideas.They wanted to live a full life, and many people resented their former values and lived a life for themselves and no one else.This mentality also corresponded with the concept of self-determination, in which each person was to live their life for themselves.The representation of the American dream has degraded, people continue to work hard for their own gain and to accomplish things for their own, selfish profit. This movement also represented a significant transformation from the previous traditions. WHAT IS THE VIEW / ROLE / FUNCTION OF THE FOLLOWING DURING THIS ISM :Modernism Place three quotations from the texts we read from this “ism” in the columns below appropriate with the category listed at the top. Each of the three quotations should be from a different chapter within each of the columns. 1. Society SOCIETY "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."(Fitzgerald 3). ● Don’t judge others before getting to know them ● Class influences all aspects of their life . SELF 1. “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-ol d boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” (Fitzgerald 88). ● Jay Gatsby represents a fake persona and his real name is James Gatz.He created the fake persona to abandon his past GOVERNMENT 1. “Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” RELIGION / GOD 1. “ On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages along shore the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.”(Fitzgerald 54). ● Gatsby is planning another one of his lavish weekend parties, ignorant of the fact that Sunday is a religious day of Ngo 7 2. “She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby—nothing. ” (Fitzgerald 136). ● Gatsby’s dream of trying to get back together with Daisy is coming to an end .Daisy cares about wealth over love and she has moved on from the past and gave up on the relationshi p with Gatsby. ● Daisy rejects Gatsby because she cares more about what Tom can give her than the love Gatsby would give her. 3. “ Of course we was broke up when he run off from home but I where he was poor. ● Jay Gatsby did not earn his money in an ethical way. He earned it by bootleggin g alcohol because of the ban on alcohol during the period of the book, and he also earned a lot of his money from unsavory needs. These interaction s could hurt social status. 2. “Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolve like this or something. Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that.” (Fitzgerald 159). ● .Gatsby's father is showing Nick a journal (Fitzgerald 60 ). ● Corruptio n in governme nt He was about to get tripped over. The officer says he'll see you next time, Mr. Gatsby ● When you have empathy and connectio ns, perform favors for people who do not live under the same laws. eddie in support of the police 2. “We're getting off!" he insisted. "I want you to meet my girl." (Fitzgerald 22) ● As Nick and Tom enter the city, Tom stops to see his mistress while Nick is with them, revealing the horrible person he rest.elite ● People despised religion, everyone in New York came to Gatsby's house to party rather than to rest on Sunday and keep it down, the modernist s escaped from custom and modified it with the idea that life's too short and thus making the most of their days by partying. 2. “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie” (Fitzgerald 30 ). ● Catherine, says that Tom and Ngo 8 see now there was a reason for it.”( Fitzgerald 158) ● Gatsby broke his relationshi p with his father because he wanted to use intelligenc e to gather wealth and social status. ● This example shows how Gatsby values wealth and becomes higher class over relationshi ps and is even willing to break relationshi ps with his family. entry from Gatsby's childhood, revealing how each of his days was well scheduled and began at 6 a.m. ● This quote shows the independe nt and determine d spirit that many people possessed at the period; it was not easy to ascend to glory from nothing, but Gatsby was determine d to do so. 3. “Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.” (Fitzgerald 83). ● Gatsby now had Daisy in his arms; that was his main goal, his reason for gaining all this money and buying his is as well as how careless he is in committin g such a terrible deed directly beneath Myrtle's husband's nose and in front of Daisy's cousin. ● The people of the modernist period tended to be quite careless; they were frequently more concerned with themselve s than with the people around them, and when Tom openly cheats on his wife, it raises questions about his character and integrity and the terrible traits that the wealthy people of Daisy refuse to divorce for religious reasons; however, they are not religious, and saying this makes it appear as though they should have some set of moral values while Tom is out cheating on his wife in public. ● The modernist s abandoned church and tradition in general, many people were not religious during this time period, which is why this reasoning is so strange. 3. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up Ngo 9 mansion in the actual position he did, however Nick observes that suddenly he had nothing to strive for and that all his goals may have gone. ● Gatsby had set a number of goals for himself as a child, while growing up and being mentored by Dan Cody, and as an adult when he had lost Daisy and his only purpose was to win her back. The modernist s believed in doing whatever one could to benefit themselve s regardless of the consequen ces, which the East Egg have. 3. “"I found out what your 'drug stores' were." He turned to us and spoke rapidly. "He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong." 4. (Fitzgerald 122). ● When Gatsby gets caught in a lie about how he acquired his fortune, he accuses Tom's friend of being involved in the same business. ● This shows the wealthy class's dishonesty ; many modernist s had a double standard things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. ” (Fitzgerald 164). ● Nick's moral judgment of the Buchanan s, who are corrupted by their riches and views. They are ignorant to what is going on around them and refuse to feel any shame for their reckless behavior. ● While Myrtle, George, and Gatsby are all dead, Nick notes that the Buchanan s are not punished for their crazy behavior and can Ngo 10 is exactly what is happening in this scene with Daisy and Gatsby. of what was good and wrong; if other people were doing something terrible, it was wrong, but if they were doing the evil thing, it was okay. just withdraw their money. They are aimed at those who have no morality, religion, or God.
