Bourgeoisie

Daily life during the medieval period was based on one’s social class, whether they were rich or poor, and was dominated by the feudal system. During this time period, different types of clothing were being worn between both genders and different social classes. The materials that the clothing was made from was different based on one’s financial situation and the law. The meals that were eaten depended strongly on what was available and who the food was available to. Similar to the food…

Have you ever wondered what social class do you fall into? Do you consider yourself as rich or as poor? These characters are trying their best to make a decent living. Everyone knows the saying “If you try your best you’ll succeed” we heard it all the time from our parents when we don’t think that we can do it. This saying doesn’t seem to apply to the characters from the Cost of Living by Carlos Fuentes and the main character in Sweat by Jorge Amado. They are trying to do their best to make a…

Media is now one of the most popular ways of receiving news and enjoying our favorite television shows. Media has been used to help unify the nation by allowing people on the West Coast and people from the East Coast to listen to the same baseball game on the radio. This help to build the vast American culture to unify all the people as one. Media has also helped alert people of disasters and allowed families to move apart from each other and still keep constant contact with each other. Although…

Gang Leader For A day by Sudhir Venkatesh `Zi’Asia Y. Richardson Elmira College In Sudhir Venkatesh’s novel “Gang Leader For A Leader”, he wrote about his journey learning about the way that the underground economy worked in the projects. Venkatesh novel focused on blaming the economy for the increased gang activity and poverty rates. He argues that the capitalist system caused those who lived in the projects to turn to corrupt and illegal activities to make ends meet.…

Oliver Twist is a great proclamation on states of mind toward the poor in Victorian England. Charles Dickens demonstrates to us what number of individuals of that time were classist to the point that they treated the poor like crooks. Needy individuals could just get help from poor houses, which had much in a similar manner as present day sweatshops. Families were isolated. The poor were terribly deprived, to the point of moderate starvation, buckled down, and beaten. Indeed, even youngsters did…

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, famed for his novels concerning the elite of society, delved into the topic of the American Dream in his book The Beautiful and Damned. The novel illustrates the luxurious and miserable lives of Anthony Patch, Gloria Gilbert, and those they associate with. As Fitzgerald details Patch’s fall from grace, both morally and financially, he challenges the concept of the American Dream through the eyes of a member of the upper class. In this novel, Fitzgerald, by revealing…

Abegail Hawley Ms. Maggert English III 21 March 2018 Social Class and Morality Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” Tcche roaring twenties was a spendthrift era. The lower social classes really wanted to attain wealth and luxury, but couldn’t due to the restriction put on them by societal norms. This began the era of bootlegging, gangs and crime all across the country and the decline of morality. In F. Scott…

Maggie, a girl of her own unfortunate environment In Stephen Crane’s “Maggie a Girl of the Streets” published in the year 1893, there is a very clear demonstration of naturalism. This particular piece of work by Stephen Crane was published during the time of the Industrial Revolution. Where the factory workers in the city were in the true since of the word treated like slaves who had no voice, yet they stayed because either you worked for basically nothing and tried to support your family or…

Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, based on the Greek mythology of the same name. It features a poor, uneducated girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is taken on a journey to become a duchess, to open up a flower shop. She is mentored by a professor, named Henry Higgins. By the end of the play, it is unknown if Liza ever marries Higgins, or a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill. As mentioned, as the story comes to a close, it leaves the reader something to think about. Does Eliza…

In the play “the Inspector calls” how does Priestley use stage directions to convey his feelings and ideas about the characters? In previous centuries, there were a lot of wars and a lot of people like Priestley did things such as reflect the society that time by books, play etc. The upper classes were rich and powerful, whereas the working classes were poor, they had to work really hard for the upper classes. The dramatist set the play in 1912 to let people know that if they still follow the…