Harmatia - The Great Gatsby and Richard II
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- Created on: 08-02-17 09:31
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- Harmatia
- Divine Right
- "Is not the King's name twenty thousand names?" 3.2.85
- "And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar, Making the hard way sweet and delectable" 2.2.6-7
- "As a long-parted mother with her child / Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting, / So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth" 3.2.8-10
- "Not all the water in the rough rude sea/ Can wash the balm from an anointed king/ The breath of worldly men cannot depose" 3.2.55
- "It faced - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you, with an irresistable prejudice in your favour."
- "There was... some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away"
- Religion/God
- "Rage must be withstood/ have me his gage; lions make leopards tame." 1.1
- "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose"
- "God, thou and I do know, All too soon (I fear) the King shall rue." 1.3
- Unstable nature
- "I had forgot myself. Am I not king?" 3.2.83
- "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me!" - Exclamatives
- Greed
- "Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time/ His characters and his customary rights... Be not thyself: for how art thou a king / But fair sequence and succession" 2.1.155-9
- "Her voice is full of money,"
- "And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages from the night before"
- Blindness
- "'Tis thought the King is dead; we will not stay" 2.4.7
- "You can't repeat the past," Gatsby replies, "Why of course you can."
- Divine Right
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