Fitzagerld의 The Great Gatsby와 사회비평 = Social Criticism in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to study the nature of Fitzgerald's concern and attitude of his own society in The Great Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby embodied Fitzgerald's deepest social convictions and expectatons. It is also a real analysis of Americal social experience, reflecting the theme of a civilization in decay through 'obfective correlatives' exemplified as the corruption of Tom and Daisy, expressing despair over the human condition and the need of moral regeneration.
Gatsby has constructed for himself out of dreams and illusions, and sprung from 'his platonic conception of himself'. The dreams for him to realixe in his imaginative life are recapturing a lost love in the inaccessible would of the fashionable rich and acquiring wealth as a symbol of success.
But the inner corruption of Daisy and of the American rich-the woman and the class which Gatsby has made the object of his dreams fell so far short of the his imaginative life.
Such is the 'colossal vitality' of Gatsby's illusions that he hardly sees Daisy and Tom for the corrupt spoilers that they are. The objects of his dreams virtually prove 'morbid realities' to destroy Gatsby's platonic conception of himself and finally drive him to death.
Nick, a key element in this novel, combines the role of stern moral critic with that of a marrator of omniscient point of view. Fitzgerald, through him, recreates situations in all their actualities, and at the same time comments upon them.
Gatsby's stupendous 'maginative life' is forced to be destroyed by 'hard malice', the external society reality, but in Nick's stern moral attitude of Tom and Daisy's escape from justice after 'unpleasant realities' as runing over Myrtle Wilson, fitzgerald suggests, Gatsby's some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life' will be valid in man's life with social desires, and the corruption of society is also curable by a return to the moral foundations.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ.서론
• Ⅱ.낭만적 이상
• Ⅲ.불쾌한 현실
• Ⅳ.결론
• Ⅴ.SUMMARY
• Ⅵ.Bibliography