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Abstract
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The study has both critics and a methodological merit, because it presents a critical reading of The Great Gatsby in the form of the uniting discourse analysis and the Marxist and Modernism criticism. Although the study of themes, ideology, and narrative form has been a popular focus of Fitzgerald and his novel, much of the existing literature uses these three fields as distinct analytic points. The contribution of this study to the field is that, when it comes to constructing the ideological and aesthetical aspects of the novel, using language, symbolism, and narrative technique, this study will show how dreams, illusions, and social realities are constructed to provide a more integrated analysis of the same.
The significance of the study is also determined by the fact that it reconsiders the American Dream as a cultural myth in the background of the influence of capitalism ideology and disillusion with modernism. Through Marxist criticism, the paper has pointed out that the restriction of social mobility and idealism is adopted through the barriers created by class division, wealth and power system. Meanwhile, within the framework of Modernist criticism, the research enables the critical discernment to place the (somewhat inconsistency) of Fitzgerald, in strategies of narration within the context of the larger literary trend as a reaction to the crises of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. This two-fold structure contributes to the modern analysis of Fitzgerald and the strengthening of the relevance of the novel to the current debate on the question of ideology, identity, and cultural illusion.
Structurally, the study has a logical and chronological order of organization. Chapter One begins the research by outlining the background, objectives, research problem, research questions, significance, and methodology of the research. Chapter Two takes a look at the main critical works of The Great Gatsby, which contextualize the novel in terms of Marxist and
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