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The narrator of the Great Gatsby begins a new life in a new region he's full of hope and passion for a new fruitious life. This compares to the opening scene of the Playboy of the Western World as our main protagonist desires a new beginning with fresh opportunities.

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Both nick and Christy have hope at the beginning of the texts. They have both moved to a new place leaving behind a bad situation. They are hopeful of what their new life holds.
Pegeen seems hopeless, she lives in a male dominated world controlled by poverty. All of her decisions are made by her father, this is similar to Daisy. Daisy’s life is a lot more glamorous, however, Tom controls what she does with her life.

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Law is disregarded in both texts, in gatsby criminal activity is rewarded as gatsby boasts wolfsheim for fixing  World Series , and in playboy of the western world no one cared that Christy killed his dad and Pegeen liked him for it

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Playboy is set in a poor rural west Irish landscape were there is no evidence of hope whereas GG is set in a rich urban New York and there is a lot of demonstration of hope.

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In Gatsby the people are over saturated with material and thus cannot find anything “fun” to do, whereas in the playboy of the western world the people are deeply deprived of anything exciting, thus the celebrating of a self proclaimed murderer

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Marriage is seen something like a image boost in both playboy and Gatsby. The both can be talked about as a similarity since both texts kind of disregard the purpose of marriage but also alternately they also be compared- the ‘purpose’ of marriage in gatsby seems to revolve around money, possessions and image. An example of a character that shows us this would be myrtle. Myrtle is obviously only having an affair with Tom because of his money, even when they have the apartment party, myrtle doesn’t conceal the fact that she’s having an affair with a rich man only for the money. This contrasts to the purpose of marriage in playboy. Their purpose of marriage seems to be more based on prolonging the family name and having children to continue whatever they set out on. Pegeen would represent this kind of character. Pegeen doesn’t exactly concern herself with whom she’s marrying and why, but, her father does. Pegeens father was against the marriage of christy and pegeen until he considered his ‘positive’ traits. The only reason he gave the couple his blessing is because he didn’t fancy his grandchild being a coward like Shawn and he would’ve wanted them to be as brave as Christy set himself out to be.

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In The Great Gatsby we are introduced to a society during the Roaring 20’s, economic boom. Very high standard of society.

Whilst in the Playboy of the Western World we are introduced to a care-free old and ragged society with low standards of life.

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Playboy is set in the west of Ireland. It has a rural setting in a shady pub.The people are portrayed as poor and uneducated. This portrays the west of Ireland as a very poor place.

Gatsby is set in a more developed society which wealthy people of high social class. Nearly everyone mentioned owns a mansion or talks about money.

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In "playboy of the western world" everything is based around the shebeen, that's where everyone goes to drink and have a good time,the shebeen is a shabby,old place.In "The Great Gatsby" everyone goes to Gatsbys big fancy party's to have a good time,Gatsby lives in a big gaudy mansion, that is a big difference in society.
Both Nick and Christy have hope at the start of both novels , they are both similar as they both hope for a new life.

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We see marriage means nothing to the characters from each texts. This is evident as both Pegeen and Daisy enter affairs while either in a marriage, or arranged to be married. We can also see that marriage is only a title for both characters, not something sacred, as Daisy doesn't initially marry Gatsby due to him being too poor. This is mirrored in Pegeen as she is attracted to Christy due to his "fame" after the claimed 🤬

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There is no social class in ptww due to them all being poor unlike gg where social class is very important amongst the main characters

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In The Playboy of the Western World the characters never seem to judge their actions from a higher deity (for example, God), rather they seem to only truly be concerned what other characters or church members (for example, the cardinals)think of them, which could be why they constantly mention the “Lord’s” name at the sight of anything of significance or greeting

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The society of Playboy Of The Western world is based around alcohol. The setting never leaves the shebeen.  This portrays the severe drinking culture in the play. Michael and his friends whole lives revolve around having a time or chance to go and get drunk.

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In both Playboy of the Western World and The Great Gatsby there is a lack of diversity.
In The Great Gatsby everyone is rich and people seem slightly racist (this is highlighted in Tom) therefore most people in the novel are very similar. In POTWW everyone is equaly poor and living in an area of farmers so due to lack of incentives for anyone to come over the only people there are Irish.

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It is evident the church played a huge role in the characters lives in PB. This is evident in Act 1 when Shawn is being thrown out of the shebeen. " Leave me alone or I'll get the curse of the priests on you." This quote shows that the church had some sort of power at the time as Shawn uses the priests as a threat. In the GG there are no references to religion.

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In Playboy of the Western World and The Great Gatsby, women live up to their stereotype that they like to gossip or talk about one's personal business. This is seen in Playboy of the Western World when the group of girls come to the shebeen as they have heard that a new man is in town and has murdered his father. We see how word has travelled around the town quickly and the girls immediately want to see if it is true. This is also seen in The Great Gatsby when Jordan informs Nick that Tom is having an affair with a woman from New York. Jordan seems eager to tell Nick what is happening between the two even though it has nothing to do with either of them. This shows us how shallow both worlds are as they take an interest in other people's affairs even though it doesn't involve them

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Although the women are considered below the men by the end they still choose between men however in Daisy’s case Gatsby dies not giving her a choice and in Pegeens case her preferred option is taken from her.

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The society is full of underprivileged men and women. Everyone minds their own business but the second theres a hero in town everyone wants to be a part of the show and get to know the person in centre of attention.

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In relation to law there is a comparison between both plays as they both disregard the law.The plot in Playboy has all been about Christy killing his father and he constantly talks about it trying to impress the villagers.This compares to the lack of guilt and responsibility that Daisy has for killing Myrtle although in contrast Daisy isn't proud of her 🤬 and tells no one.There is a evident disregard of law in both

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Both Gatsby and Christy try to impress their love interests, Christy tries to impress Pegeen who in act 3 to her dismay has to refuse to marry Christy as he attempted to 🤬 his father by the shebeen. Gatsby tries to impress Daisy who doesn’t marry Gatsby as she is living comfortably with Tom and she eventually finds out that Gatsby doesn’t belong to old money like he poses to.

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In my opinion social class is the most evident contrast between the two plays/books. It is clear that the characters live in completely different worlds. "The Great Gatsby" is  based in quite a modern rendition of New York during the economic boom of the 1920's, the residents are generally overly wealthy and have huge glistening mansions and other expensive assets. "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water". This is quite the contrast to the people of "The Playboy of the Western World" as the majority of folk in this play are poor overly-religious farmers living in small sparsely spread villages in contrast to the clutter of New York."We were digging spuds in his cold, sloping, stony, divil's patch of a field".

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With such little diversity amongst the characters, even Christy machine dad, who lives in a different area from where pbww is set is still very similar to the characters who lived there. This shows us that many people in the west of Ireland where similar at this time.

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The society is full of underprivileged men and women. Everyone minds their own business but the second theres a hero in town everyone wants to be a part of the show and get to know the person in centre of attention.

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Their is a distinct lack of class range in the playboy of the western world, in stark contrast to the suffering poor to terrifyingly wealthy of the great Gatsby

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In the great Gatsby law is disgregarded as no one cares when they heard that Gatsby killed a man once and they continue to go to his parties, and in playboy no one thinks badly of Christy For killing his father

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the endings of both playboy of the western world and gatsby are similar in some ways.
The main female character in both have lost the man they want to be with, Daisy has lost gatsby and Pegeen has lost christy. They are left to go back to their original lives which they were not happy in.
Christy and gatsby are both turned on. Everyone was so intrigued by Christy because of his crime and everyone wanted to be his friend. They all ended up turning against him in the end when they were involved with the crime. Similar to this, everyone loved going to gatsbys house for his elaborate parties, however when it came to his funeral, there was not one of them party-goers present. This shows that people used them for what good they could get, however never really cared.

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The society in playboy is completely different to the society of gatsby,
in playboy the setting is so bleak and area so boring that there is no opertuninties for characters to take or make a better life for themselves. In contrast to GG, where the setting is rich with opertunities such as the the mansions,jobs,cars and wealth and examples of people using these opportunities to make a better life for themselves like gatsby.

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In Brooklyn everyone knows everyone this inevitably becomes the catalyst in our main protagonists decision as she is forced to return to tony otherwise she’ll be made a mockery at home in Ireland.

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Education is suggested in Brooklyn as our main protagonist goes to a night school which ends up meaning she is qualified to be a accountant in Ireland making her decision even more difficult as it’s her dream job

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In Brooklyn and great gatsby marriage wins as the women settle for their husbands instead of their “affairs” however in playboy Pegeens taste of a playboy so to speak means she can’t return to her desperately poor husband

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In Brooklyn it’s the priest who sets up the job and night school etc. meaning religion was a major part of the story

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In Brooklyn our main protagonist experience a full cycle of events as on the boat she becomes the blonde girl so to speak from the first voyage sharing her knowledge this is their to represent how far she has come since the beginning of the story

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Religion plays a huge role in Brooklyn. The opening scene immediately shows religious aspects to the setting. We see eilish and her family attending mass. She is then working in the local shop on Sunday morning when the “mass rush” comes in to get all of their needs. When eilish is moving to America, everyting over there was set up for her by a priest which her sister knew. We see all of these points within the first 20 minutes of the movie which portrays immediately the importance of religion in the movie

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In brooklyn, eilish defies gender roles to a certain extent. At the time, it would not have been normal for a girl to be working her way up through education and work. We see eilish attend night classes in bookkeeping at Brooklyn University.

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In Brooklyn gossip and news are assured to be spread because of ‘the small world’ it is. “Its nice to know someone who doesnt know your aunt”

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We can say Brooklyn has a satisfactory ending as the protagonist is happy, alive and well not like the other two texts.

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In Brooklyn, marriage is valued, which contrasts to the other two texts. Eilish is clearly married to tony because she loves me. In contrast, Daisy is not in love with Tom, but married him for the benefits of his money. Pegeen is set to marry Shawn because it’s a great bargain. This shows us how marriage is only love based in brooklyn

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In Brooklyn Elish comes back from America and she says "I forgot what it was like in this town".In Ireland everyone knows everyone, and knows all their business and everyone talks about each other, this shows what the society was like at the time.

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In Brooklyn Elish has moved to America, found herself a job and she has started collage.She has passed her collage exams and she is bettering herself.Elish was one of the first women who passed an exam in the home she is staying in.This shows that not many people better themselves as only men can go to collage and get an exam or work this shows what gender roles were like at the time.

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I need Brooklyn marriage is not for self gain, Elish is married to Tony because she loves him and doesn't want anything from him.This contrasts to our other two texts.Daisy and Tom are married for wealth and self gain and they just use each other and in playboy of the western world Christy wants to marry Pegeen and so does Shawn but not because they love her, in Brooklyn tony and Elish value and care for each other.

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In Brooklyn when Eilis is on the boat we see massive diversity between the Irish moving to America versus the ones who were visiting. Eilis thinks that she will miss Ireland a lot and her cabinmate regrets going back to Ireland to visit. She is also well dressed in expensive clothing compared to Eilis who is dresssed in normal clothes.

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With the noticeable lack of law in Both text we see different examples of how this lack of law is in these worlds such as when Christy speaks about him killing his father to the villagers in order to impress them which he successfully does, this shows the villages have a disregard for law, similar to the people in gatsby where they gossip about gatsby shady business but do not alert the authorities but rather keep it as gossip.

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Both Eilis and Pegeen develop as characters and the closing emphasized this to us.Eilis gives advice she once wished she had on her first voyage and pegeen although left in no different circumstance then the start of the play sees she isn’t satisfied with a life with Shawn.Gatsby however is left dead

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Both myrtle and Ms.kelly act as catalysts in the ending of their respected story.Myrtles death leads to Watson killing gatsby ending the book and in Brooklyn ms.kelly reminding Eilis of what the town is really like makes her return to tony in America

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At the start of Brooklyn Eilis is given a big send off but by her last send off she leaves without anyone waving her off this shows a character development

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Eillish lives in wexford with mother and sister she is getting ready to go America for a better life her sister is arranging all of this for her

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There is no sense of law, there is no crimes

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In Brooklyn they go to church every Sunday , and the priest sets Elish up to go to America this shows that in this society people have a strong relationship with the church

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In Brooklyn there is diversity when Elish and he sister rose are at the dance.The boys stand on one side and the women Stand on the other.The boys have to ask the girls to dance so the girls have to wait for a man to come over and ask them to dance they can't go over to them.