Love Through the Ages - Status and Love

Inaccessability of love (Poetry)

"Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde... Sithens in a nett I sekee to hold the winde... graven with Diamondes in letters plain... 'Noli me tangere for Cesars I ame."

"pass our long Loves Day. / Thou by the Indian Ganges side / Should'st Rubies find: I by the Tide / Of Humber would complain."

Love is for all (Poetry)

"marriage of true mindes... O no, it is an ever fixed marke... Lov's not Times foole... I never writ"

"Ae fond kiss... Ae fareweel... pledge thee / wage thee. -... Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! / Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!"

Purchase of a lover (Poetry)

"graven with Diamondes in letters plain / There is written her faier neck rounde abowte"

"made a garland for her head, / And bracelets too, a fragrant zone; / She looked at me as she did love, / And made sweet moan."

"within mine arms in love and sleep she lay; / Surely the kisses of her bought red mouth were sweet... desolate and sick of an old passion, / Yea hungry for the lips of my desire:"

Inaccessibility of love (Gatsby)

"the dominant race, tto watch out, or these other races will have control of things... beat them down"

"'Self-control!' repeated Tom incredulously... let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife... begin by sneering at family life and family institutions... and have intermarriage between black and white.' Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself... the last barrier of civilisation"

Marxist - upper-classes push down the proletariat.

Purchase of love (Gatsby)

"feudal silhouette... sparkling odour of jonquils and the frothy odour of hawthorne and plum blossoms and the pale gold odour of kiss-me-at-the-gate... Marie Antoinette music rooms and Restoration Salons... Merton College Library"

"beautiful shirts.' She sobbed... It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.

"Her voice is full of money... High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl."

"Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor"

Feminist - Daisy linked to value and status.

Daisy and the American Dream (Gatsby)

"a single green light, minute and far away"

"had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night"

"present a green card. I'm giving out green-"

"only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily; undespairingly toward that lost voice."

American Dream - 1931, James Truslow Adams.

Gatsby and hope

"an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic rediness... what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men"

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year receded before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the pa