Love making you complete Flashcards

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P1: When Gatsby and Daisy reunite there is a change in his personality where he seems to have completed his fantasy

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C5: ‘He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well loved eyes’
C5: ‘He was consumed with wonder at her presence’

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P2: Arguably however most characters in Gatsby never feel fully complete by love as the love they experience is superficial and often based on ulterior motives

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C4: ‘There was only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired’
C4: ‘And so I drew up the girl beside me’

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Sonnet 116 - Loves fulfilment by not changing and altering in times of trouble shows how love can guide and complete someone

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‘It is the star to every wandering barke, whose worths unknown although his hight be taken’
‘Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes’
Shakespeare seems to believe in this - If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved’

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She walks in beauty - The images of light and dark shows how love can exist in both and thus encapsulates all aspects of life such as light and dark

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‘All that’s best of dark and bright’
‘One shade the more, one ray the less’
‘Thay smiles that win, the tints that glow’

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