This displays a higher power for women because they demonstrate power in agriculture and agriculture was a needed economic sustain for any civilization. An additional document would be records of women’s impact on the trade. This would be helpful because it would show how women controlled many businesses involving agriculture. The Song dynasty also displayed status through sudden recognition in literature. In an excerpt from a poem by Li Qingzhao (doc 6), she makes fun of herself for being a popular female writer.
The novel, published in 1925, explores life in the early- to mid-1920s. Politically speaking, this was a time of growth and prosperity, as well as a time of corruption. World War I, the first war of its kind anyone had ever known, had ended in 1919. When Warren G. Harding assumed the presidency in 1920, one of his goals was to bring the country back to business as usual. However, this proved to be a difficult task because Harding's administration was plagued by scandal and corruption, as well as opposition mounted by both unions and organised crime.
So both the novel The Great Gatsby and the story “Babylon Revisited” are products of the time, products of 1920s. Narrating just about the lives of the several characters F.Scott Fitzgerald skillfully depicts the whole society, introduces us closely to the history of America at that decades, shows reader’s how the American Dream was changing throughout that time period : how suddenly pursuit of wealth and materialism became the main goal of most people, how after that thousands of people lost everything in the market crash and how the whole generation of flappers and pleasure-seekers was eventually lost. While comparing two works The Great Gatsby and “Babylon Revisited” one can’t not to notice the central role of the past in them. As both books begin narrating about the present events and gradually deep into the past. Present is impossible without the past, and F.Scott Fitzgerald was fully aware of this essential fact.
The Jazz Age Women, men, and parents before and after the jazz age all had thoughts, views, and differences about how they felt in this time period. The 1920s was the biggest part of the jazz age. It all started when every one knew that World War 1 “The war to end all wars” had finally ended (Hanson). This age really shot up when the war ended and the economy rose. After the war jobs raised and money flow was much greater.
Colors in the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The Great Gatsby was written in a time in which values no longer played an important role among the population. The “Roaring Twenties” were shaped by the post-war generation and especially by the newly rich and wannabe famous, whose life circled around parties, money and affairs. Fitzgerald manages to draw the reader’s attention to significant details and symbols in the text. Therefore, symbolism plays a major role in The Great Gatsby. The most prominent colors that can be found throughout the novel are green, white, gray, blue and yellow.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan, examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920's American Dream. Written in 1925, the novel serves as a bridge between World War I and the Great Depression of the early 1930's. Although Fitzgerald was an avid participant in the stereotypical "Roaring Twenties" lifestyle of wild partying and bootleg liquor, he was also an astute critic of his time period. The Great Gatsby certainly serves more to detail society's failure to fulfill its potential than it does to glamorize Fitzgerald's "Jazz Age." Fitzgerald's social insight in The Great Gatsby focuses on a select group: priviliged young people between the ages of 20 and 30.
For many of the women the war was ‘a genuinely liberating experience’ (first world war, accessed 07/01/09), and made the women feel useful as citizens. Also for some women it gave them the freedom that only men had enjoyed so far and ‘offered escape from jobs of badly paid drudgery’ (war and gender, accessed 22/01/09). In one women’s words it was said to be like ‘being let out of a cage’ (war and gender, accessed 22/01/09). The fact that it offered women freedom gives the impression that World War One did have a positive effect on the role of women. In support of the World War One having a positive effect on the women’s role.
The Scandalous Overnight Celebrities: The Bright Young Ones The Great War heavily impacted the world economically and socially. The 1920s is frequently referred to as the ‘roaring twenties’ because of the rapid changing life styles. This was caused by financial abundance and rapid technological progression. Many Americans enjoyed this prosperous state by taking part in America’s consumerism. Britain experienced the exact opposite economically and their government aimed to reconstruct prewar Britain.
Flappers were outrageous party girls. In 1920 women were given the right to vote in the USA. This also showed us that more respect was being shown towards the women. A lot of women obtained jobs and worked for a salary. This was a huge step for women as it was the first time the were allowed to work with men.
Theme Keyword(s): JAZZ AGE SUMMARY: The Roaring Twenties was a time of opulent lifestyles following the return of soldiers from World War One. A time when the younger generation rejected the values of the older generation. The lifestyle of the East particularly New York City, a place of wealth, was alluring and often, wild and debaucherous (immorality). People with wealthy heritages (Old Money = East Egg) began to resent those with recently acquired wealth (New Money= West Egg), especially if that money was made in dubious ways. The Jazz Age bought with it an economic boom which saw the birth of materialism and consumerism.