Reference class forecasting

Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, depicts a society in the Regency era in which the sole importance of young women is in the acquisition of a husband in order to be regarded as a respectable woman by the society. The story itself begins with the sentence “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”(Austen, 1995). In chapter 1 clearly that shows the importance of marriage for men with wealth and for women to…

the author Marjane Satrapi used many deep and interesting symbols throughout the book to illustrate many turning points in Satrapi’s life in Iran. She was born in Rasht, Iran, on November 22 1969, however she grew up in Tehran in an ordinary middle-class family. She went to school in a private French school which gave her opportunity to be more open-minded than strict Iranians. She lived a peaceful childhood life under the Shah’s power until she was around 11 years old when the Muslim extremists…

In the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, presents the idea that keeping the population afraid creates order, and prevents rebellion but causes the government to create bread and circuses to the people. After the fear of people's districts being destroyed, the Hunger games was created as a bread and circus to the people involving young kids to fight to the death in a generated arena. The winner that will live in peace with no problems. This is the same thing as what happened in the Roman Empire,…

Expectations and the Brexit by Amelia HC Ylagan In the cusp of the 19th century, Dickens is perhaps the most famous romantic writer telling of the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution in England at that time, in the narrative of a “condition-of-England” as the growing-up storyline (Bildungsroman) would paint, and in the message of challenged traditions as the Victorian girdling had constrained. The pathos of the Victorian novel is mostly based on a foundation-emotion of isolation…

What is considered as the term ‘the gaze' can be constructed of how a society views individuals or even a group of individuals of the same qualities. An individual's perception can affect the functionality of society and civilisation. By assessing the gaze, we can determine how groups of individuals will be treated. It is common that the different groups of minorities that make up society, for example- homosexuals, will stand out of the ‘norms' that make up our everyday lives which can, in turn,…

Sam Mendes’ 1999 film American Beauty offers a narrative that subverts the idea that suburban neighborhoods are the perfect setting in which to raise a family. Instead, the film portrays the suburbs as “spaces of conformity, dysfunction, and repression” (Smicek 2014, p.43). Through the use of its almost caricature-like characters that at times lose themselves in ridiculous and morally corrupt behaviors, American Beauty exposes a darker side of the very familiar domestic ideal of suburban life.…

In this novel, the author’s message is that class conflict is futile as it is also destructive. The moral of the story is expressed through the main character’s interaction with rivalry. Ponyboy Curtis, the main character of the novel is the youngest member of the Greasers. In the book, “Greasers” is a term used to classify “boys from the east”. The Socs and Greasers are two feuding social classes. The destruction caused by the feud ends up depleting several lives. As he identifies he is a…

Higgins. As well as the lower class which includes Eliza and Alfred Doolittle. It is important to know that these classes are dependent on one another throughout. When analyzing with a Marxist perspective, it is very clear that the society is separated by the Upper Class and the lower class, but the main factor that can help one climb the social latter is Education. Shaw provides much reasonable evidence as to…

also influenced the period by giving rise to a growing middle class of consumers. These middle class consumers especially enjoyed the ornate though reserved fashions made possible by the invention of the sewing machine in 1851. The wealthy business owners, bankers, educators, and skilled laborers, who traditionally purchased their clothing custom-made, strived to imitate the standards for conduct and dress established by the elite class (“History). These standards reflected a set of uniquely…

works of literature from a socio-economic perspective. It uses the principles laid out by Karl Marx including but not limited to, the class…