She wanted to live a more lavish lifestyle, but later she will find that the life she has is much better than the life that she will obtain later in life. Although Mathilde Loisel didn’t have a harsh life, she suffered greatly. She longed to live the life in which she thought she deserved because of her beauty. She lived in an apartment with her husband that was plain and not very desirable to live in, well in her standards. She will daydream about the life she should have had and not want she has.
Class, Race, and Gender Structured Inequalities Class, race, and gender organize society as a whole and create a variety of contexts for family living through their unequal distribution of social opportunities. They are forms of stratification that foster group-based inequalities. They distribute social resources and opportunities differently. Life chances They are relational systems of power and subordination. They are interconnected systems of inequality.
Anyone can become anything they want to become but all of these social factors play a part in that. In the PBS documentary special “People Like Us,” it discusses how social class works in America. The segment called “How to Marry Rich” focuses on a middle class woman trying to become upwardly mobile, she wants to learn how to attract a man of a higher class suit. Ginie Sayles, motivational speaker and author of “How to Marry Rich,” was poor all of her life but ended up marrying a millionaire. She learned to dress, act and interact with the rich and powerful to get what she wanted.
As a result of this, social mobility was limited at this time and people socialised in small circles, with only those of a similar class. Any socialisation out of this was seen as absurd. It was women especially that felt the limitations of the late 18th century/early 19th century, as there were strict expectations of them. Women were seen as possessions of men, and expected to be educated and well behaved, mostly in hope to ensure themselves a husband of wealth in order to further themselves as women did not inherit any land or money from their fathers, this went to the closest male relative. Any kind of acting out of against the expected image of a woman would be seen as shameful and would lead to isolation even further in terms of socialisation and the hope of a husband.
It was a dream of rising from the lowest point in our society and to become wealthy and well-known which would make them feel happy. Gatsby has this dream however he is overwhelmed by luxury that comes along with wealth and he does not see that money cannot buy him love and happiness. His dreams get corrupted by the snobbish people that surround him. Gatsby gets everything he wanted, he is rich and famous he even has an entanglement with Daisy – the love of his life and his other dream. However he is still unhappy, not until Daisy leaves Tom.
The power that the soldiers quickly acquired over the princess was used for personal gain by them. This was illustrated when the author states “…the sight of a woman eating excited him as nothing else now could.” Pg. 292 In society soldiers are generally known as honourable men but in the story the two soldiers show their character which is illustrated as one that does not care about others. When given power over the princess they take advantage of it leaving her lonely, and uncertain of her existence. This is shown when the princess states;
Della hair is not the most important thing to her her husband is. On the other hand Mathilde charter in “The Necklace” cares more about social class then money. She shows this when she asked for money to buy a dress. “Finally she answered hesitatingly, “I’m not sure exactly but I think with four hundred francs I could manage it… However he said All right I’ll give you four hundred francs” (Guy de Maupassant222).this show that she cares what other people thick about her. Secondly she is self-center with her money.
In comparison to Mr Bingley who is of upper gentry, higher class, as himself and his family inherited money like the normal gentry’s did. If one was to be more respected and socially superior it would automatically be the Bingley’s due to their inheritance of money and therefore showing that their social class is much higher than the Bennet’s. She then goes on to satirize ones with higher social position, especially the Bingley sisters, the the most snobbiest and uptight people around. Austen perceives the Bingley sisters as very opinionated and one-sided girls, in
Woolf notes ‘Are you aware that you are, perhaps the most discussed animal in the universe?’ (Woolf, 1929, p.84). A Room of One’s Own is in first person narration, it is Woolf and a fictionalised persona. I noticed how Woolf, if given the choice of money or the vote, she would choose money. It allowed her to forgive men for their collective injustices toward women, and to see males too as victims in some ways of their education and culture. Ultimately, the financial freedom gave her the ‘freedom to think of things in themselves.’ (Woolf, 1929, p.90) I believe that money elevated her more into her respected position than the right to vote did; it allowed her to pay for a room of her own in which she loves to write.
Anyone can get ahead: a member of the lower class can ascend to fellowship with his upper-class brothers, a poor immigrant can become wealthy and successful. This statement, however, is not entirely true. In 1902, the year in which Ragtime is set, class and gender are two barriers that must be overcome to achieve the American Dream of upward mobility. We see this in the economic opportunities provided to women in twentieth century America in the jobs to which they were assigned and the wages they were paid, which both reinforced the difference between the sexes. Furthermore, a woman’s sexual