Examples Of Idealised Love In The Great Gatsby

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.” Love me for who I am and not for my fleeting beauty is Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s demand to her lover. That’s the kind of love we all desire and yearn for. Ideal love. It is what cured Browning and preyed on Gatsby. Set in vastly different time periods, Sonnets from the Portuguese written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning who lived in the Victorian Era in 1845, a vigorously religious time and a patriarchal society influenced her representation of ideal love in the sonnets. In stark contrast, the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald critiques the demoralised world of the 1920s; a world devoid of emotions and aggressively vapid. The protagonist, Jay Gatsby, immediately ostracised in the readers’ mind owing to his hope for ideal love in the insipid and materialistic world.
Within the Sonnets, Browning’s overwhelming Christian faith influences her writing and perception of idealised love. In Sonnet 21, Browning …show more content…
The reckless jubilance that led to the decadent parties and wild jazz music – epitomized by the opulent parties thrown by Gatsby – ultimately corrupting the American Dream, as unrestrained desire for money and pleasure surpassed more noble goals. The clash between ‘old money’ and ‘new money’ manifests itself in the novel’s symbolic geography: East Egg represents the established aristocracy & West Egg, the self-made rich. Gatsby embodies the idea of the American self-made man beginning from nothing and building his own success through hard work which is the essence of the American Dream. Yet, Fitzgerald challenges this American Dream: Gatsby's wealth was not made through honesty as he was a

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