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Compare how settings and societies are essential to the mood in 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
Title: Compare how settings and societies are essential to the mood in 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
Category: Literature / World Literature
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Compare how settings and societies are essential to the mood in 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' are set in different historical and cultural contexts. However, there are common themes and moods that both writers create within these different settings to help convey their social comments. But there are also some important differences in how mood is created and in the themes presents to the readers and audiences. This exploration of the moods created by settings, should reveal …showed first 75 words of 2967 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2967 total…play provides those experiences and depends on the imagination of the director and actors rather than the audience.
I have shown how both writers use the settings and societies to create moods, which are effective in communicating their critique of their respective societies. However, they do this in quite different ways. Fitzgerald explicitly reveals the problems and downfalls of 1920 upper class American society, while Wilde avoids doing this, instead parodying English Victorian upper class society
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