The Great Gatsby & Hamlet Theme Comparison Mind Map
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
obsession with the past
Betrayal
Adultery
Murder
Disloyalty
"They were careless people Tom and \daisy they
smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back
into their money or their vast carelessness"(Fitzgerald
170)
"And to gather so much as from occasion you ay glean,[Whether
aught to us unknown afflicts him thus] That, opened, lies within our
remedy
"Its after we started with Gatsby towards
the house that the gardener saw Wilson's
body a little way off the grass and the
holocaust was complete.(Fitzgerald 154)
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brothers death
The memory be green, and that it us befitted to
bear our hearts in grief the whole kingdom to be
contracted in one brow of woe.(Shakespeare 1.2.1)
"God knows what you've been doing, everything
you've been doing. You may fool me buty you cant
fool god"(Fitzgerald 152)
She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with
such dexterity to incestuous sheets. (Shakespeare 1.2.6)
"It doesn't mateer any more. Just tell him you never loved
him - and its all wiped out forever" (Fitzgerald 125)
Inability to act
Unrequited love
Death
"Alas i am slain"(Shakespeare 3.4.31)
The 'death car' as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came
out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment,
and then disappeared around the next bend.(Fitzgerald 130)
"Love? his affections do not that way tend"(Shakespeare 3.1.162)
"Just tell him the truth" (Fitzgerald 125
Now might i do it(pat) now he is a-praying"(Shakespeare 3.3.77)