The Great Gastby

 

Hello! I am divya parmar. This blog is the response to the thinking activity which is held by dilip barad sir. We studied the novel "The Great Gastby"  For better understanding we watched movie upon novel. After watching movie sir give us the thinking activity. So in this blog i cover question but along with that i give some information about writer, novel and then questions of the movie. 

👉About the novel : The Great Gsatby

The Great Gatsby, third novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. Unsuccessful upon publication, the book is now considered a classic of American fiction and has often been called the Great American Novel. To read more about novel click hear

👉 About the writer : 

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade. To read more about writer you can visit the wikipidia page. 

👉 About the movie "The Great Gastby" :

The Great Gatsby is a 2013 historical romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, and Elizabeth Debicki. Jay-Z served as executive producer. Filming took place from September to December 2011 in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.

The film was highly polarizing among critics; it received both praise and criticism for its acting performances, soundtrack, visual style, direction, and faithfulness to the source material. Audiences responded more positively and Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the film, stating "Scott would have been proud." As of 2017, it is Luhrmann's highest-grossing film, grossing over $353 million worldwide. At the 86th Academy Awards, the film won in both of its nominated categories: Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.

👉Question- Answer : 

1. How the film capture the Jazz Age - the roaring twenties of thr american in 1920s? 

Answer:

 The novel "Great Gastby" covers the Jazz age as the roaring twenties. The 1920s looms large in the public's popular imagination as a glamorous era of technological Changes and widespread prosperity. Bookended by two world wars and the great depression, the period during the 20s was on oasis of calm wedged between a series of global calamities. More relaxed social attitudes made the 20s a grand time to party. While economic growth during this era was ultimately built on sand and decade would end in disaster. The 20s reputation as a golden time for art, literature, and music is well deserved.   The “Roaring Twenties”—a term that characterizes the distinct cultural tone of the 1920s, principally in American cities, but also in Berlin and Paris—was a period of social, artistic, cultural, and economic dynamism. It was not until the Wall Street crash of 1929 that this remarkable era ended and the Great Depression spread worldwide. The novel also captures the jazz music of thr age, grand rich parties of the age, Buisness of the age, Life style of the both class poor class as well as rich class etc.

From the publication of his 1922 collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, and beyond, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been inextricably linked to jazz. Indeed, Fitzgerald is even widely believed to have coined the term “Jazz Age,” and although the phrase predated Fitzgerald’s book, his usage unquestionably boosted its popularity immensely. The presence of jazz in his other works, perhaps most ironically in his grand novel The Great Gatsby, linked the term even more tightly to his name.  Today, the moniker “Jazz Age” has come to signify, as a kind of evocative shorthand, the 1920s in both academic and pop culture. Because jazz’s lineage—difficult as it is to pin down—was tightly bound up with African-American performance, the music often came to signify black American cultural production, and so, whenever Fitzgerald invoked jazz, he was often, simultaneously, invoking blackness. Yet The Great Gatsby’s usage of jazz is complicated, as Fitzgerald was simultaneously a proponent of the then-new, race-crossing music and a writer prone to resorting to racial stereotypes when black characters appeared—a combination that, unfortunately, was far from uncommon in Fitzgerald’s day. 

“It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” Fitzgerald famously wrote of the 1920s in a 1931 essay, “Echoes of the Jazz Age.”  In his mind, the decade defied any rigid definition, but what perhaps characterized it best was the jazz music he so frequently alluded to in his own writing. In Fitzgerald’s most popular novel, The Great Gatsby, jazz appears as constant background music. In the contemporary phenomenon of “Gatsby parties”—festivities intended to capture the air of the titular Jay Gatsby’s famously lavish, bacchanalian parties—jazz is de rigueur to evoke the 1920s.

2. how did the film help in understanding the characters of the novel ? 

Answer: 

In novel we can find that the character nick carreaway narrating the story but in movie thogh the same dailogues but characters are performing very diffrently. And also it is said that visual things are more effectively woeks. So by the novel we can only read discription of the situation but by the movie we able to see the around situation of the character and incidents. Which is really helps us to understand characters and each situation.  

3. How did the film help in understanding the symbolic significance of "The vally of ashes", " The eyes of dr, T J Eckleberg" and "The green light?" 

Answer: 

1. The vally of ashes: In movie we can see the diffrence between uper class life style and lower class life style. In the movie they are moving one place to another place and in between they passing through the valley of ashes.