Archetypal Interpretation of the Hero in The Great Gatsby

DOI

10.2991/icesame-17.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gatsby; American Dream; hero archetype; green light.

Abstract

The Great Gatsby depicts the mysterious image of Gatsby in his relentless pursuit of dreams and his final illusion. The author wrote a paean to this tragic hero of America. Myth-archetypal critics believe that, the author unconsciously combined the image of heroes in ancient myths and legends with Gatsby's story, since religious rituals and archetypes permeate the whole book. This paper takes Gatsby's double pursuit of American Dream in the movie as the main line, using archetypal criticism to analyze the inextricable relationship between Gatsby and the heroes in ancient Greek myths and biblical stories, trying to discover the mythological color of the book and confirm that The Great Gatsby work is a very touching mythical epic.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiaojing Li
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TI  - Archetypal Interpretation of the Hero in The Great Gatsby
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 337
EP  - 340
SN  - 2352-5398
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