Petit Trianon Analysis

The (2006) movie Marie Antoinette depicts the lifestyle of the Queen of France and her ultimate fall through total disconnect from her subjects. This movie visually displays the decadent self-indulgence enjoyed by the French Monarchy at the expense of their people. One scene of Petit Trianon [Fig 12] demonstrates the Queen and her friends basking in a privileged idea of being “one with nature” as advocated by French Philosopher Rousseau. Most importantly is the scene showing class disconnections, and the realities of farm-based labour; servants tending to this fantasy-based countryside cottage. Another scene depicts the servants cleaning eggs for the Queen to collect, exposing her fantasy-driven view of nature and ultimate disconnection with the realities of it. The servants also …show more content…
And why is society structured in a way that members of contemporary society cannot afford to purchase a home or that most social housing is continually constructed lacking outdoor space. Whereas British nobility, currently and historically, retain ownership over acres upon acres of land to use how they please, and intend to keep this confiscated environment as pristine as possible. With the intention of understanding such issues further, the work of Karl Marx is important. Although Marx succeeded writing in an era different than that of contemporary society and articulated a distinctive comprehension of what quotidian members of society experienced at that time. Nevertheless, similar elements and structures continue within present-day society. With the purpose of identifying the means by which structures developed, a few extracts from Marx’s text Capital, specifically Chapter (27) “Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land” utilised by analysing the relationship between exploitative methods applied by nobility, Monarchs and parliament to take control of