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Mind Map by Tamsin Hackett, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tamsin Hackett
over 8 years ago
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The Great
Gatsby: Context
- Roaring Twenties
- Term to describe 1920s
in western world
- Economic prosperity -
nation's wealth doubled
between 1920-1929
- More lived in urban
areas, electricity invented
- Term to describe 1920s
in western world
- Jazz Age
- Characterised as a period of carefree
self-indulgence, wealth, freedom
- Increased prosperity
- Characterised as a period of carefree
self-indulgence, wealth, freedom
- Prohibition
- Sale & manufacture of alcohol
prevented by law 1920-1933
- Many bootleggers
became rich - Gatsby
- Due to national mood turning against
alcohol for religious & moral reasons
- Sale & manufacture of alcohol
prevented by law 1920-1933
- Flappers
- Fashionable young
women intent on
enjoying themselves
- Disregarded conventional
behaviour standards
- Represented new type of
modern woman - less feminine,
dressed less conservatively
- Fashionable young
women intent on
enjoying themselves
- New Technology
& Transport
- Radio, silent movies
- First car - Ford, low cost trains -
easier to travel e.g. to New York
- Advancement
in medicine
- Radio, silent movies
- Conspicuous
Consumption
- Lavish spending on
goods and services to
display income or wealth
- To attain/maintain
social status
- Only done publicly
- Lavish spending on
goods and services to
display income or wealth
- The American Dream
- New values in 1920s - instead of
wanting equality, people wanted
to get as rich as possible
- Traditional values -
equality, enjoying life,
pursuit of happiness
- Novel represents decline of it
- New values in 1920s - instead of
wanting equality, people wanted
to get as rich as possible
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