Dickens castigates this class system through the foils of Estella and Biddy, Magwitch’s generosity, and Jaggers’ coolly indifferent ethics. The drastic differences in social status of Biddy and Estella molds them into very different people, with conflicting values and traits. Biddy is compassionate and approachable, Pip “repose[s] complete confidence in no one but Biddy” (95). Biddy, being raised lower class, is shocked at first to discover Pip’s desire to become a gentleman, “Oh I wouldn’t, if I was you!” (128). A working class citizen is no less respectable than a gentleman in Biddy’s eyes, it is the character of the person that truly matters.
In the 1930’s there were a number of British people who were prejudiced against the Jewish people. This even included key British political figures such as foreign secretary Lord Halifax who once admitted he was “slightly anti-Semitic.” The antagonism featured in the relationship between Eva and the Organiser contrasts with the mother/daughter relationship featured earlier in the play between Eva and Helga. While Helga can at times seem to clash and argue with Eva, she ultimately just wants the best for her. The adult/child relationship has prominence in pages 23-25 could be seen to reflect the theme of miscommunication. Eva, despite being polite, muddles her English dialect and says, “Goodbye to you.” This dialogue could represent that despite her having a seemingly poor linguistic ability, Eva is desperate to connect and make a link to this stranger.
His levelheadedness also juxtaposes with the frivolity of his wealthy cousins and neighbors thus developing a contrast in which Fitzgerald deliberately criticizes the lunacy and wastefulness of the 1920s upper class. Furthermore, Nick never complains about his own life but endures the constant complaining from the wealthy about their own lives which develops Nick's trustworthiness and the contrast between the wealthy and middle class. Daisy lives constantly in a state of ever changing emotions and ideals. With very contradictory behavior, she intimidates those not close to her in an effort to conceal her destructiveness, detail not readily shared with those around and gradually revealed to the reader in order to develop the character. The only excuse for her concealed cruelty is that she did not know any better as a fool which she shares in the beginning by wanting her daughter to be a fool.
Wilde criticizes the society he lives in during the time he wrote the play and uses characters to emphasize the inequalities of double standards mainly between the gender roles and how London High Society during that particular era was hard to get in to but easy to become an outcast. The characters of Mrs Erlynne and Cecil Graham oppose each other and differentiate a great deal in London High Society. How other people treat them varies massively due to a numerous amount of things; gender, past, reputation, social status and wealth/inheritance. All of these items are key to a, what the upper class would call a ‘perfect life’, but in reality are emphasizing the flaws of society. Wilde establishes how the characters in his play have a great obsession to climb the social ladder and Cecil Graham and Mrs Erlynne are perfect examples of characters that are determined to keep ascending up the hierarchy ranking.
RPrejudice First impressions aren't everything. However, most people judge others by their looks and behaviors. The basic conflict in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" written by Jane Austen was cause by the early judge toward others. This story is about a man named Mr. Darcy who refuses to dance with a girl named Elizabeth in a party, which causes her have prejudice toward Mr. Darcy and assumes that he has excessive pride. However, later on, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth eventually fall in love with each other.
Dear Diary, On October 1917, it was a breathtaking day! I was reunited with the man I initially fell in love with; not that cheating bastard Tom, but the charismatic Jay Gatsby! It’s strange to refer to him as charismatic in this occasion, as our initial meeting was quite awkward, as many people would say. I was invited to have tea with Nick at his house, and it just so happened that there was another visitor: Gatsby At first, he was very uncomfortable and timid towards me, yet to be quite sincere, I was probably just as embarrassed and taken by the situation. It had been so very long since the last time I saw Gatsby that there was a rather ‘uncomfortable’ friction between the two of us.
In the short story “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol, the nose is not only a mere facial feature but it also plays a strong role in social position and affects one’s sexuality. After Kovalev loses his nose, he was humiliated by the fact that he loses his nose, a symbol of his high social status, rather than by his unpleasant appearance. His lack of nose also deprives him of his pride and arrogance, making him hide himself from women. Gogol uses satire to reveal the importance of the nose and its visual impact, which is often shadowed by other facial features. Gogol satirizes a society that is infatuated with the social status.
Firstly in The Great Gatsby the characters are defined by wealth and by the type of wealth which they have. Fitzgerald makes this even clearer by having the characters in different geographic areas. Daisy and Tom Buchanan live in East Egg where all the families with old money lived. On the other hand Gatsby and Nick Carraway live on West Egg where the new money families lived. The Valley of Ashes is the nickname for the lower and more ignored place in all of the area because of its low status.
The quizmaster – who himself has gone from rags to riches - presents this belief to the audience, and their response shows them to be in agreement with it. The wealthy were seen as intelligent and were given more chances to move up than the poor people from the slums. The inspector was a middle class man who probably never knew what it was like to be poor. He immediately felt that Jamal was a lying, cheat and that he couldn’t possibly have known the answers because he was only a poor “chai walla”. This is a contradiction because one of the inspectors involved was really stupid and showed it in the way that he got angry when Jamal used big words or said something he didn’t understand.
Holden implies by mentioning his thought, that roommates with cheap suitcases are hard to be with, that he is a special person that everyone envies and is jealous of. His attitude shows us that he thinks that he deserves to be roommates only with people who have suitcases which are equal, or even more expensive in price. Holden additionally mentions that he became roommates with Stradlater, whom he dislikes, just because his suitcases were “good