Charlemagne, the son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada, was born in 742. Although his parents married before his brother Carloman was born, they were not legally married at the time of Charlemagne's birth, and he was thus thought to be illegitimate (born out of wedlock).
The Great Gatsby. Theme. The overall theme of âThe Great Gatsbyâ is the American dream. Originally, the American dream was supposed to be the pursuit of happiness and the love between a man and a woman. During the story, the American dream is corrupted by the selfish pleasures of the men and women in the story.
It is an edgy, vaguely satirical tone, capped by Gatsby's inexplicable but grandly sympathetic gesture of raising his arms in aspiration at the end of the chapter.This is the movement and tone of the entire novel: satirical, critical, grandly romantic, and full of magic and mystery.is opinion of Gatsby and Daisy's love affair is related to his own views of love and romance; much like Fitzgerald himself, Nick has some very definite ideas about what love is, and perhaps more importantly, what it can be in its most noble form.