Before anyone could stop it, people were illegally scheming their way up the social ladder to gain unfair financial status. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby are the two main characters that are obsessed with their status. Daisy feels that money is equivalent to power, and loves the ease at which it puts her. Gatsby,
Marx predicted that capitalism within a socioeconomic system would inevitably create internal tensions between social classes leading to its demise and replacement by a new system, communism. For Marx, the concept of class has always existed in society. Historically, a society has always been arranged into various orders of social rank. A defining characteristic of capitalism however, is that “it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat” (Marx and Engels 1848).
In the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' there are many areas in the play that leads us to the utmost dramatic scene; it is a set up for the bitter conclusion that makes this the dramatic high point of the play. Tennessee Williams exploits instances of plastic theatre, language and Stanley's constant fight for dominance as the alpha male for attention all build up to Blanche ending up shattered in the end of scene 10. Since Blanche had arrived in Stanley’s home it had been a continuous battle against Blanche, who adheres to the old South's customs where wealth had a big impact and Stanley whom is from a more modern time didn’t affect them as much. It is the dramatic high point of the play because it is the point of the play where Blanche is pushed to the limit in her mental state. What’s dramatic is that Stanley doesn’t take Blanche’s mental state into consideration saying, "Let's have some rough house!"
As the political Ida of capitalism has corrupted the Birling family, Priestly shows the audience how the inspector, the voice of socialism, constantly out-wits the birling’s. This therefore appeals to the audience as within today’s society there are still large segregations between what political ideology people choose to believe in. In conclusion I feel that the play “an inspector calls” creates lasting appeal as it interests today’s audience within all aspects of life, and how morals and ideas portrayed within the ply can be compared to peoples everyday situations. As political ideology as the largest theme within the play, today’s society are interested not just in today’s politics, but how morals and politics shaped the world previous to their
The lavish parties he had to hide the emptiness in his life. He idolize Daisy liked he did the wealth. Gatsby never realize daisy was not impressed by his materialism Daisy was dealing with reality and Gatsby was dealing with turning his life into something he wanted it to be. And in the end Gatsby lost everything he was trying to gain at no matter what. The book is a revelation on how thing was in the roaring twenties and the attitude of rich people.
The French Revolution unfolded in the late 1780s and what started as a disagreement over proposed tax reforms would quickly evolve into a movement for political reform. The revolution was fueled by greedy royals, extravagant aristocrats, food shortages, rising taxes and prices, impoverished peasants, corruption and violence. The nobility wanted sovereignty and a share of royal power; the wealthy middle-class wanted political representation; the urban working classes wanted more food at lower prices; the peasants wanted relief from feudal bonds and restrictions. The king, Louis XVI, sat center of this quandary of competing interests unsure of what to do and what he wanted. “The people under the Old Regime” political cartoon (1815) gives a graphic representation of the Third Estate under the old regime during a time of uncertainty, change and chaos of the revolution.
It can be argued that even though Gatsby’s dream is pure the fact you have to base your life around money and acquiring wealth and power to get expensive things shows how corrupt a simple dream can become. For Gatsby to have glamour in his life he must go through some sort of corruption, as it appears that glamour and corruption coincide with each other. Gatsby’s world can be seen as corrupt as the people who he is surrounded with appear to be fake. Gatsby lives on the dream that one day he can win back the married Daisy Buchanan and that she will return his feelings in love. However the people around Gatsby have no significance in their lives they do not strive to be anything this is shown when Daisy tells Nick that she wants her daughter to become a ‘beautiful fool’ because there is nothing better in life for a woman.
And then there is New York City, which is chaos, and in which Nick sees the “quality of distortion” that he frequently speaks of (Great Books: The Great Gatsby. 2003). All of these things lead up to one of the main themes of The Great Gatsby: the spirit of the 1920s, combined with the conflict between social classes. A symbol of this is Jay Gatsby himself, in both his personality and how he changes throughout the course of the story in the same fashion that America does during the 1920s. He seems to be putting on a show, composing a character out of himself that is defined by the rich things he owns to impress Daisy.
That document amalgamated a variety of Enlightment ideas drew from the works of political philosophy. The French Revolution was influenced by Brotherhood because the irate citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille together, it was an expression of the power of the people to take politics into their own hands. Fiscal irresponsibility influenced the Revolution because after debts where brought to an higher level then before then taxes were raised on the people to end the financial trap which was not easy and required the support of the aristocracy. Democracy influenced the French Revolution the new construction of politics, in which all individuals were equal, ran counter to prevailing ideas about collective identities defined in guilds and orders. People on all levels of society learned politics.
By using characters such as the Birlings and Eva Smith Priestley implies that social class had a vast impact in the play. Throughout the play J B Priestley demonstrates just how unaware Upper classes were to how easy their lives were. Mr Birling a strong headed capitalist displays clear views on social class ‘as if we were all mixed up in a hive’. He dismisses any chance that people of different classes should converge. Priestley presents us with the idea that Mr Birling was disgusted with such an idea.