The representation of the concept of the American Dream, the New Adam, and the New Woman in two major cinematic adaptations of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
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2024-07-03
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This thesis offers an analysis of the cinematic adaptation of one of the masterpieces of American literature, The Great Gatsby (1925), a novel written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Two major cinematic adaptations of Fitzgerald's text are considered, the 1974 and the 2013 versions of The Great Gatsby. Both films are critically compared against each other and against the original text with a focus on finding out how the two films represent the concepts of the New Adam and the New Woman in the context of the American Dream. The analysis focuses on one male character, Jay Gatsby, as the example of the New Adam, and two female characters, Myrtle Wilson and Jordan Baker, seen as different versions of the New Woman.
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