Are there any similarities between Shakespeare books and the Great gatsby?

Question

Are there ant themes, plots, or ideas in The Great Gatsby that could in some way relate to those found in any Shakespeare book? Are there any similarities between the characters? Do any of the story archs sound the same? Please help.

Answer 1

Shakespeare refined the art of writing tragic plays. In this case, a "tragedy" is defined as a book where the hero/heroine comes to a miserable end due to a fatal flaw in the protagonist's character. Good examples are King Lear, Hamlet, MacBeth, and Romeo and Juliet. In this way, Gatsby is a classic tragic hero. We root for him, but he dies in part because of his mindless devotion to a past he can't have. In a way, he is much like MacBeth, who let a silly idea warp and dominate his thinking until that idea led to his undoing.

Answer 2

There are four movies of _The excellent Gatsby,_ one among 1926 with Warner Baxter, one among 1949 with Alan Ladd, one of 1974 with Robert Redford, and one tv one of 2000 with Toby Stevens. I am now not sure which one you imply. The 1974 movie is the one generally said. It faithfully follows the radical, together with many traces of discussion, but it's hopelessly useless as a movie or work of art. The largest difference, person who absolutely escapes the film, is language. Fitzgerald's language is poetic, romantic, aspirational, and satirical at the same time. Handiest the radical has that difficult combo. The film accentuates the romanticism and so sentimentalizes the unconventional. Nick's (Sam Waterston's) return to the Midwest will not be the ironic paean to and rejection of yank experience that it turns into in the novel but readily the disillusion with Gatsby and the sector of the East. In the booklet, the scope turns into grandly ancient, even epic. Nick's return to the Midwest is an strive, in a diminished manner, to affirm American values. Nick embodies the quintessential American standards, these the unconventional needs to verify. The love story is a secondary Platonic embodiment of those values--utterly offered in the novel but lower than the whole story. The movie will get the whole thing proper besides the whole factor. Don't watch it without studying the unconventional--it is precisely proper but all mistaken even as.

Answer 3

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I've read The Great Gatsby and I've only read R+J from Shakespeare so far. I can't really detect any major similarities, other than there's a romance in each. Oh, and the fact that main characters die tragically in each story.