Tragic Elements

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This paper offers a comparison between the elements of tragedy of "King Lear" and "The Great Gatsby" and explores them from the perspective of tragedy as a literary genre. The paper's hypothesis presented is that the similarities found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" are a result of the author's borrowing and expanding on the elements of tragedy from Shakespeare's "King Lear."

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"In this essay, a comparison between the elements of tragedy of "King Lear" and "The Great Gatsby" will be explored from the perspective of tragedy as a literary genre. The hypothesis presented here is that the similarities found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" are a result of the author's borrowing and expanding on the elements of tragedy from Shakespeare's "King Lear." "King Lear and "The Great Gatsby" are both similar tragedies of epic proportion even though the authors' divergent times and purpose threatens to overwhelm a common basis for comparison."

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