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Bizindavyi, Jean Pasteur

Irony in Francis Scott Fitzgerald's the geat gatsby / by pasteur Bizindavyi; Eric S. Njeng, directeur . - Bujumbura : University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of English Language and Literature, 2012 . - IV-53 f. ; 30 cm.

A thesi submetted in partial fullfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree "Licence en langue et Littérature Anglaises"

RESUME

This work has attempted to study Scott F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, as an indictment on the 20th Century American beliefs and practices. The work explores irony as Fitzgerald's tool to express his criticism and contempt for the corruption, the immoral decadence and materialistic behavior of the Americans of the 1920s.

On this note, the work operates on the assumption that irony is a genuine technique of writing that Fitzgerald uses to pass across his message. Written against the backdrop of new hisoticism, the work concludes that Fitzgerald mocks the existing follies, hypocrisy, corruption and immoral values through irony. Fitzgerald shows that ambition, when harnessed with unmitigated precision, is a force which can endow one with the jewels of life. However, ambiton does not always end in success. It may lead to unwanted and unexpected outcome.



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