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An Inspector Calls is a play written by Dramatist J.B Priestley in 1945. Priestley was a left-wing socialist and this was one of the factors which influenced him to write this play. Even though the play was written in 1945, it was actually set in 1912, right before the start of the First World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands, getting involved in the death of a woman named Eva Smith. The Inspector uses…

The Novels a House of Mr. Biswas and Things Fall Apart, both examine the concept of Individualization in direct conflict to their each respective societies. A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul focuses more on the adaptation to society, whereas Things Fall apart, by Chinua Achebe, focuses on the destruction of oneself door to Society Clash. Both the Novels, have similar themes, though the techniques used to portray it to the readers differ. The Novel, Things Fall Apart published in 1958, by…

Different “Ways of Seeing” In the essay, “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger applies Marxism to art history. Marxism is the social, economic and political theory formed by Karl Marx. It deals with class struggle and the oppression of the lower classes by the upper classes. In the essay, Berger focuses on using Marxist methodology, when he analyzes and explains an artist named Frans Hal. Berger uses Hals paintings to demonstrate the structure of social classes, and their struggles to give an idea of…

Stoicism To counter stoicism, the play presents itself first as a stoic world. Frye indicates in his essay that Albany and Edgar stands for the moralist (111); and Moretti in “Great Eclipse” argues that King Lear is in-between an old feudalist society and a new absolutist society. However, these characters does not stand for a vague, universal ethics; and feudalism, as a political concept, must have a reciprocal relationship with cultural doctrine as to integrate the social and the political. I…

both be maximized, insisting that natural is actually social. Marx believed that workers would be exploited by capitalists or owners of the means of production and that this capitalist system favors the rich and not the poor. Further, as the owner, the owner is able to negotiate lower and lower wages for the worker alienating them from their production in the class conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. This matters as how we think about markets and how embedded or important they…

Amusing the Million Question Amusing the Million by John F. Kasson gives the vibrant history of one of America’s most prized and famous amusement parks, Coney Island; Kasson also describes the society and culture during this time of great change. Society in the 1890s and early 1900s experienced many changes, from the use modern technology being incorporated in daily life, to the modernization of cities, and to the merging of different economic classes through social gathering places. After…

In “Rendering Unto Caesar,” Lawrence W. Reed questions whether Jesus was a socialist. Socialism is defined as the want to redistribute the wealth in the country through central planning and government involvement. One of socialism’s main characteristics is that it is involuntary. Different verses are mentioned, such as. The Good Samaritan story is often used as an example to prove that Jesus supported government welfare, yet it seems that this is more of an example of the importance of helping…

stratification ladder with six classes, ranging from the rich to the very poor. These social classes can be seen in popular movies like the Titanic and the Pursuit of Happiness, and even on Broadway in A Gentle Men’s Guide to Love and Murder. All these productions have one thing in common, they talk about how social class relates to an individual’s life chances, when class individuals belong to shape the chances for the good things to happen in one’s life. In the Titanic, the rich get to escape…

would eventually collapses and revolution would ensue. From this ‘revolution’, Socialism should prosper, where we are in an egalitarian communist society where human need would be motivation for production, not money, and the very nature of ‘class’ will be eliminated. The state would own the means of production, and would equally distribute resources to all persons. Ralf Dahrendorf’s “Class and class conflict in Industrial Society” (1959) comments on Marx’s writings and worked to develop Marx’s…

political and cultural factors. By the early 1800s Britain was a country of cheap energy - coal. The great inventions of that century - the steam engine, mechanical spinning, smelting iron with coke - all served to economise on the expensive factor of production and use more of the cheaper one. Other countries were slow to follow suit not because they were sluggish or repressed, but because they did not have that particular combination of several factors which helped Britain. Firstly, there are…