#5 A Tragedy Of Gatsby And Daisy Who Had Different Dreams In Different World From Each Other, Film, “The Great Gatsby”

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Today’s story is called A Tragedy of Gatsby and Daisy Who Had Different Dreams in Different Worlds from Each Other, the Film “The Great Gatsby”.

 

 

The Great Gatsby, a famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has finally been encountered by Baz Luhrmann, the director of Moulin Rouge, and Leonardo DiCaprio, an actor who presented the best acting as a villain from a new film, Django Unchained, and other films, Titanic andInception. The film, The Great Gatsby, released recently. And big responses were apparent from many female audiences from North America.

Simply speaking, the synopsis is that Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) falls in love with Daisy (Carey Mulligan) when he is very young. However, the love with her does not continue as they get older. Because he believes that he didn’t have wealth or money to keep her and make her happy, he devotes his life only to become wealthy, so that someday, he could attain her. He eventually becomes enormously rich, which is clear for all to recognize. He purposely gets a mansion around where she lives and holds a magnificent party every day at his place where everyone is invited, in order to make her come to him. However, Daisy has already married Tom (Joel Edgerton), who is as rich as Gatsby. In the end, Gatsby successfully meets Daisy again, as his neighbor Nick (Tobey Maguire), Daisy’s cousin, helps him. Gatsby believes that he became rich so he could win her over even though she is already married. However, his dream doesn’t come true and the film meets a tragic ending. (Refer to the film details for a detailed synopsis)

What Gatsby truly wanted was Daisy. His life goal was to make her entirely his, and in order to achieve his goal, he attained wealth and success. However, Daisy had a different dream from Gatsby’s. In the world she lived in, what she wanted was only money. If she could have money, it didn’t matter who she was with, either Gatsby or Tom. The worlds in which Gatsby and Daisy lived are just like water and oil. Because they had different dreams and goals, they could not be together happily and it had a tragic ending.

We feel sympathy while watching this film. The story of the Great Gatsby is not only a story from a novel or a film but also applies to our reality. Modern people feel loneliness to some extent. Everyone is lonely because we are not together even though we live together in the world. As humans live trapped in their own world that they have made, we are not living in the true world but in the world of the mind that we ourselves have made. Because we cannot understand each other, we cannot be together and continue to have conflicts and thus, eventually, everyone becomes lonely. If 7 billion people live in the world, everyone lives in 7 billion different worlds. As Gatsby’s world and ideals were different from Daisy’s, they could not be together forever in the end. Likewise, what we really need to do in the world is to destroy the world of the self that the self only has, become one with the true world and live together in the true world. We feel lonely, painful and longing because we live trapped in the world of the self. Although we try to find the genuine love and meet someone else, that person also lives in the world of himself so we can’t ever become one and the genuine love could not exist. The time has come when everyone breaks free from the false dream, false ideal and the false world that we ourselves have made and receives a new birth in the true world so that we can live happily with one mind and one dream; it is the time when we can all live together forever. Such a good world has come. Countless people are already living like that. Because the method has arrived such that everyone could become one, I hope everyone lives happily and coexists as one in the world.

 

To conclude, let me introduce writing by teacher Woo Myung, a real teacher of this generation whom I admire the most:

 

From the World of Hardships to a World Free of it

From his book <The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living>

Do you find it easy to live in this world?

During a time when the world changes everyday

People cannot keep a steady mind

People are out of their minds

Do you find it easy to live in this world?

When times change

It is difficult to live in such changing times

When times change

One who changes with the times

Has little trouble making ends meet

One who resists the changing times

One who is far from reality

Has trouble making ends meet

Because the world does not follow your selfish expectations

Because the world does not unfold as you please

Your life is difficult

However when you live unbound to

Either living well or living with difficulties

When you live from the world’s perspective

And work diligently, just do your work

Live without self

And just live without your self that has difficulty

Then there is no pain, no hell and no anxiety

And you will live a good life

Instead of blaming the world and others

A person must cleanse that mind of his that blames others

Then the world becomes bright, the world becomes one

One who knows that it is not the fault and mistakes of others

But that it is his own fault, and that everything is his own sin

Is the wise one

When you repent your sins

And live as truth, the true self

The world is heaven, the world will be full of pleasure

It is the one world

Where there is no ‘this world’, no ‘that world’

No matter how hard you try to live for the self

There are no results, there is no meaning or value

But if you live for the world

In the one world

There will be pleasure in the mind

There will be contentment in the mind

Because there is no fortune, no Truth in their minds

People are in wanting

They have no place to rest in their minds

People just follow the false and end up in the false world

It is a life with no meaning, no value

When one builds false fortunes within his self

And accumulates false fortunes within his self

There is no meaning

The matters of life pass like wind and water

His life is difficult

Because he lives only for his greedy self

When one pursues only wealth and fame, his demons grow

There is no meaning; life is only full of falseness

Only a person who has Truth within the true mind

Will live eternally with that fortune, free of troubles

This is the best way of living

 

 

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