Sample Essay on “The Great Gatsby” & “Sonnets from the Portuguese”

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In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetry?
The study of literature often reveals interesting insights into society’s interaction with universal values, and the societal principles that direct individual behaviour and aspirations. The treatment of, values such as love and hope in Elizabeth Barrett Browning‘s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese‘ exhibit the optimistic Romantics movement and the liberal, reformist Humanism movement of the early 19th, century Victorian Era. Likewise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s haunting portrayal of unrequited love and the carelessness of the American east coast society in the 1920’s in the novella ‘The Great Gatsby’ reveals the significant transformation from certainty and optimism to uncertainty and cynicism during the 8 decades between the compositions of each text.