Proletariat

The article highlights the critical disclaims of Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Mary Barton’ and its ‘irrelevant’ subplots, subplots Stoneman expresses present the maternal relationship between a child and father, the latter of whom emits a feminine tenderness consequent of the harsh middle class environment. Mary Barton determines morale in correspondence with class, reflecting upon the invasion of the industrial revolution within rural surroundings. Stoneman explores how these events affect the…

Carl Marx; The Untouchable Dream Carl Marx has been criticized and slandered due to his views on the economy and how it should be approached. The disdain towards his beliefs are understandable with all the corrupt political systems that have risen in the name of Marxism. Marx’s views, however, are not as terrible as society makes them out to be. Marx thoughts on the economy are a dream that even he did not know how to achieve. Marx saw how the world worked based on historical patterns and only…

Traditional Marxism revolves around the theory’s concerned with social class, and who is to benefit from work, and how much they will benefit. In order to do this, Karl Marx examined the people in positions of power. If Karl Marx examined Athenian society, he would see that the tragic hero was required to come from a position of authority or of high social status. From this observation, deductive logic could be used to determine that the Athenian Society is exclusive, oppressive, and similarly…

In “Women Like Us,” Edwidge Danticat explains how in her Haitian culture women are not seen as writers. In “Workers,” Richard Rodriguez talks about his experience working as a construction worker and how having a manual job doesn’t mean people don’t have any education. In “Serving in Florida,” Barbara Ehrenreich talks about how people and herself are struggling to afford a decent living while having a low minimum job. In “Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle says how people want to be happy, and…

In Robert Granfield’s social research, Making It by Faking It, he conducts a research on the working class students who attends an Ivy League law school. Majority of the students come from upper-class families that have cultural capital, whereas the working class does not. His interviews with the students gives a good reflection of how money and reputation can influence others. As these working-class students are thrown into the world of the upper-class, they hide their identities and are…

The influence of social class on education has been a long negotiated concept. Both Lee Warren in Class in the Classroom and Scott Davis in Stubborn Disparities: Explaining Class Inequalities in Schooling put forward what they believe influence a child’s academic success. Warren agues that social class is the most significant factor of how well a student does in school. On the other hand, Davis argues that a child’s success is not merely influenced by social class, but also material factors,…

John Steinbeck was a communist during the Great Depression. Communism is the idea that the working class shall rise up, in order to establish a society of all people equal in wealth and power. Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas River Valley, California. The story follows the journey of two ranch hands during the great depression. Ranch hands are people who move ranch to ranch working during the season to help ranches. In his novel, Of Mice and…

In chapter two, Boal brings to bare the changes in theater during the transition from the medieval, feudal period and the renaissance, with the rise of a bourgeois middle class. He states that the bourgeois rose up due to their individual prowess and practicality, leading to the rise of the exceptional individual protagonist in theater. Machiavelli's plays propound the value of intellect separated from morality, through which characters get what they want. He talks about Machiavelli and…

An Inspector Calls explores the concerns of wider society contrasted with selfish individuality. The playwright J.B. Priestley hated the attitude of viewing the lower class as different people, and Mrs. Birling is a woman who has this attitude. She is a cold and selfish woman who is out of touch with the reality of life. Throughout the play she remains the most self-centered as she demonstrates no responsibility and no remorse. In act one there is a stage directions describing the setting of…

In contrast, the tenement area is much dirtier and things are constantly out of place. This communicates a more comfortable, easy-going attitude but also shows the lack of refinement that the lower class has. There are also a lot of working people in the streets and their artifacts are primarily composed of utility items like shovels, flower baskets, and beer mugs. Their items are not just there for decoration and they are often symbolic of the field of work that those people are in. Even the…