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Pride can lead to failure and self-destruction. Discuss the presentation of pride and its consequences it at least 2 of the work you have studied  

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Pride can lead to failure and self-destruction. Discuss the presentation of pride and its consequences it at least 2 of the work you have studied  

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Pride can lead to failure and self-destruction. Discuss the presentation of pride and its consequences it at least 2 of the work you have studied.

Planning

Identifying main terms:

Pride

Failure

Self-destruction

Consequence

Defining the terms:

Pride: satisfaction derived from one's own achievements.

Failure: Lack of success.

Self-destruction: behaviour that causes serious harm to oneself.

Consequence: a result or effect.

Pride in The Great Gatsby  | Pride in Paradise of the Blind

- Historical Context:The 1920s were characterized by a spark in American pride.Nationalism also grew in America as Americans found themselves as new leaders of a post WWI world.

- Hubris:Positive surge in the economy led to people like Gatsby, with rag-to-riches storyMaterial things were now in reach due to a booming economy'My house looks well, doesn't it [Gatsby] demanded. 'See how the whole front of it catches the light'" (89).

- In Self-Opinion:"'Now, don't think my opinion on these matters is final," [Tom] seemed to say,'just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are'" (7)."There was something pathetic in [Tom's] concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore" (13).

- Examples:
I. Nick tells the reader about his background and family history.II. Nick Carraway's interactions between the many characters in the novel show a reflection of pride.
a) Interactions between Tom and Nick show examples of pride
b) Interactions between Gatsby and Nick show examples of pride.
c) Interactions between other minor characters show pride throughout the novel.
III. Discussions arise that give Nick certain biased or critical opinions, these opinions reflect his pride and other people's opinions reflect it as well. (“I’m not judgemental”)
a) Discussions about money and other financial issues help flesh out the idea of pride.
b)Discussions about social situations and interactions between certain couples show Nick's concern over his pride.

Pride In Paradise of the Blind:
I. Chinh’s pride in his position in the Communist Regime and his influence over others.
II. Proud to be a “peasant” (working class member in society) because of his rewards from the Land Owning Movement.
III. Because of Communist values, he is proud of being from poor family
IV. Aunt Tam’s pride in Hang and her vision of her to go university when eventually Hang is unable to go because of the mother’s injury
Aunt Tam’s pride of how much she works, when eventually Aunt Tam dies of overwork.

Consequence in The Great Gatsby | Consequence in Paradise of the Blind

Features:

- Characterisation
- Symbol
- Irony

Outline

Introduction

Define Key Terms

Thesis

Body

Big Idea 1 (Compare)

Gatsby

Paradise

Big Idea 2 (Compare)

Gatsby

Paradise

Big Idea 3 (Contrast)

Gatsby

Paradise

Conclusion

Sum up

Restate Thesis

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Discuss the significance of particular times, places or events from real life, either mentioned or implied, in at least two of the works you have studied.

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Discuss the significance of particular times, places or events from real life, either mentioned or implied, in at least two of the works you have studied.

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Chosen works: The Great Gatsby & Neruda's Poetry

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How do at least two of the writers you have studied foreshadow events or ideas to come later in their works, and what is the effect of such foreshadowing?

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How do at least two of the writers you have studied foreshadow events or ideas to come later in their works, and what is the effect of such foreshadowing?

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To what effect is contrast and/or juxtaposition used in at least two (!!!!!!!!!!!) of the works you have studied?

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To what effect is contrast and/or juxtaposition used in at least two (!!!!!!!!!!!) of the works you have studied?

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The Great Fatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paradise of the Deaf by Duong Thu Huong.

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Discuss whether or not the endings/conclusions of at least two of the works you have studied are satisfactory.

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Discuss whether or not the endings/conclusions of at least two of the works you have studied are satisfactory.

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Chosen Works:
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Paradise of the Blind by Duong The Huong

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The works of Pablo Neruda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both reflect the authors opinion on real life events, however Fitzgerald conveys place as a canvas and Neruda writes about place as an emotional attachment.

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Appearances can be deceptive. Discuss the relevance of this statement in regard to at least two of the works you have studied.

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Appearances can be deceptive. Discuss the relevance of this statement in regard to at least two of the works you have studied.

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W orks:
The Great Gatsby
Paradise of the Blind

Thesis: While setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind appear to represent the literal, in truth, they symbolise the failure of the ideologies of their respective times.

Introduction
- Titles and authors
- Context... (time period: 1920's and 1980's), setting of the book (New York and Vietnam)
- What both of the works explore... failure of their ideologies
- Thesis

Body (Idea 1)
The Great Gatsby - corruption of the American dream

“The old metropole”

“Filled with faces dead and gone.”

Paradise of the Blind - The failure of communism

Communist residence K was “scarred with bumps and potholes”

The Great Gatsby vs. Paradise of the Blind

Body (idea 2)
The Great Gatsby - Inability to move social class

(Tom) “High hallway leading to a rose-colored space,” “French windows’” “glistened white”

(Gatsby) “A man of oxford”

Paradise of the Blind - Inability to achieve personal goals due to loyalties

“The old roof of our hovel still rotted in its patchy state. The summer seared down on it, numbing our brains with the oder of tar."

The Great Gatsby vs. Paradise of the Blind

Body (idea 3)
The Great Gatsby - Social pressures destroy the lower class

“Halfway between New York and West Egg… this is the Valley of ashes."

Paradise of the Blind - Social pressures foster resilience in women

“An atrocious ornament of a snuffed out life."

The Great Gatsby vs. Paradise of the Blind

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A satisfactory ending of a novel is one that imposes justice on its characters and provides a sense of hope for the future. Huong, despite depiting a culture that oppresses women, is optimistic as she suggests that women must acknowledge the realities that menace them to retain faith in life. Fitzgerald's ending, by contrast, perverts the course of justice for the disadvantaged.

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Similarities:

At the end of the novel, both Nick and Hang are alone after the death of a loved one (Gatsby/Aunt Tam) and reflect on the events that have taken place.

Differences:

They use their reflections to conclude the novel. Huong's reflection leaves the reader hopeful, Gatsby's ending is bleak. The reader pities the society that Nick is a part of.

-Huong suggests that family loyalties are destructive, and one must have the courage to recognize their threat and forego ease for sake of autonomy.

Quote: "We can honor the wishes of the dead with a few flowers on a grave somewhere. I can't squander my life tending... shadows, the legacy of past crimes"

-Fitzgerald insists that social injustice allows the upper-class to escape from suffering the consequences of their mistakes, thus never learning morality.

Quote: Fitzgerald calls Tom and Daisy "careless people", because they "smashed up things and creatures" and then "retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness" and let "other people clean up the messes they made"

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Similarities:

Justice was not served for Aunt Tam nor Gatsby

Aunt Tam and Gatsby both worked tirelessly to accomplish wealth, but were unable to fulfill their final goals.

Myrtle's death was falsely pinned on Gatsby.

Differences:

Gatsby suffered injustice through his murder, and before his murder. Aunt Tam, on the other hand, died with honour. Fitzgerald's reader understands the world is an immoral and unfair place, whereas Huong's reader feels more content as Aunt Tam's peaceful death was merited through the resilience and strength she manifested throughout the hardships of her life.

Aunt Tam:

"Aunt Tam was living her vengeance now, crushing everything that blocked her way" (81)

"fascinated by the thick calluses and cracks that scored the skin of her feet. Horrible, deep, ugly furrows separated the soles of her feet into flaky layers. Time and backbreaking work in the fields had ravaged them"

Gatsby:

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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We can conclude that Neruda and Fitzgerald clearly show strong opinions on their society through the description of time but use place to either portray the authors attachement to a place or a as a basis to tell a story

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Intro

o   Context

§  Paradise of the Blind (Novel, Duong Thu Huong, 1988, Vietnam)

§  The Great Gatsby (Novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925, America)

o   Thesis

§  Contrast and juxtaposition are used in both Novels to convey the effects of disparity in extremes on society, but while Fitzgerald seeks to condemn the effects of opulence, Duong seeks instead to uphold traditionalism.

·       Body 1

o   Topic sentence: Contrast in setting shows the degradation of environment as a result of either opulence or poverty.

o   Gatsby: The Eggs vs The Valley of Ashes
The Valley of ashes lies between West Egg and New York. It is a desolate place where, "Ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens." Everything about it is dry, grey and dirty. East Egg by contrast is full of green manicured lawns and palatial mansions. A fresh breeze blows in from the coast and nothing is out of place. West Egg is more middle class but still a much more acceptable place than the Valley.  That being said, the lives of those in the eggs is clearly condemned as seen in the metaphor of the car with fruitlessly spinning wheels, and the fact that the only true misfortune we see enter the valley is brought in by dwellers of the eggs.

o   Paradise: Village vs Hanoi
The village is shown to be rooted in it's sense of tradtionalism, with terms used to describe it focusing on naturalism and deification of the natural in general. With the industrial slum of hannoi on the other hand, Duong (unlike fitzgerald) focuses more on the misfortune of it's residence, portraying it's soot and degradation not as a praise of their escape of the vices of opulence, but as a byproduct of that very opulence on others.

·       Body 2:

o   Topic: Contrast in Character Through Foil

o   Paradise: Ching vs Ton
With Ton, he eventually finds happiness only in his intellectual and semiwealthy lifestyle with he village chief's daughter. Chinh on the other hand lives in a self imposed sense of deprivation on the grounds of his ideology. While the comfort and Luxury Ton indulges in may seem like an appeal to the benefits of wealth, it is in fact an appeal to traditionalism where he finds happiness in the moderate but simple wealth of a village, critiquing instead the harsh effects of the climb to the top in Chinh's life.

o   Gatsby : Gatsby vs Nick

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In the works of both F.Scott Fitzgerald and Duong Thu Huong, they implement foreshadowing within their works, The Great Gatsby and Paradise of the Blind. While Fitzgerald depicts foreshadowing through hyperrealistic features and diction, Huong illustrates foreshadowing through symbolism and descriptive language. Due to the difference in the use of feature, the foreshadowing in The Great Gatsby is more indirect and intertextual whereas Paradise of the Blind is direct and straightforward.

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Gatsby

Shirts

When gatsby was throwing the shirts, Daisy was so overwhelmed she cried. This foreshadows her end-decision when choosing between gatsby and tom and depicts her materialistic nature

“He wants her to see his house”- Jordan to Nick

Foreshadows Daisy’s materialism, Daisy ‘left’ tom because she thought that Gatsby was more wealthy but ending up leaving gatsby when the truth was revealed

Imagery, irony

Gatsby’s Mansion

Through narrative, nick describes his house in a god-like manner which makes it seem hyperrealistic to everyone but Gatsby, alongside Gatsby’s extravagant parties which all foreshadow the lack of attendance at Gatsby’s funeral.

Diction

Use of past-tense (diction) to foreshadow Gatsby’s demise

intertextuality

Paradise of the Blind

Huong uses weather (imagery) to depict Hang’s hope (autum) and the foreshadowing of an event that negatively affects her hope (snow)

“to be autumn was unique, foreign kind of beauty. Soon it will be winter, and the snow.

Autumn depicts her adolescent years where she was innocent and ignorant to the reality of life whereas the winter represents her coming of age, and being introduced to her culture and the world

“Unhapiness forges a wound”- Que to Hang when she is young

foreshadows Hangs unhappiness when she comes of age (becoming a women)

Narrative Style

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Idea 1: Hyperrealism vs symbolism

Gatsby

Gatsby’s Mansion

Through narrative, nick describes his house in a god-like manner which makes it seem hyperrealistic to everyone but Gatsby, alongside Gatsby’s extravagant parties which all foreshadow the lack of attendance at Gatsby’s funeral.

POTB

“to be autumn was unique, foreign kind of beauty. Soon it will be winter, and the snow.

Autumn depicts her adolescent years where she was innocent and ignorant to the reality of life whereas the winter represents her coming of age, and being introduced to her culture and the world

Idea 2: Diction vs descriptive language

Gatsby

Use of past-tense (diction) to foreshadow Gatsby’s demise

intertextuality

Diction

POTB

Huong uses weather (imagery) to depict Hang’s hope (autum) and the foreshadowing of an event that negatively affects her hope (snow)

Idea 3: Imagery

food in POTB

Idea 4: Narrative Style

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The relevance of real life time and events

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The relevance of real life time and events

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Gatsby:
Neruda's poem:

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Gatsby: He uses place as fresh soil to tell his story. He uses real places like New York and the eggs to create contrast between different places (where Gatsby lives and where Daisy lives).
Neruda's poem: There is more personal attachment.

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Girls I like what you did here. I think that perhaps you can also include how the use of metaphor is commonplace within both of the pieces of work. Excellent Job!!

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Aamir:
If you used Paradise of the Blind, you could incorporate the cultural values which structured Vietnam's society as these were all values which were associated with the time.
Nathan:
You could have even gone into Duong Thu Huong's personal context and the social/political context of Vietnam in the time she wrote the novel.

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If you compared Huong to Neruda, you could discuss how Neruda is the mouthpiece for the common man in Chile. He expresses the disillusionment of the Chilean people with fascism, an ideology that failed his time.

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- If Neruda was used, you could connect to the open endings of the poem
- Possible talk about the past and the present at the endings of the books (Neruda appreciates the past vs. Gatsby wants the past vs. Huong moves on from the past)