The movie showed the Classical Spirit typical to that commonly associated with late 1700’s Europe. As large social gatherings began to emerge as a way to show off class and wealth the demand for composers and pieces grew. These composers were hired for individual functions and to compose individual pieces for these events. The movie shows the competition Mozart had between other prestigious composers during this time and how hard it was to earn money in the business. Without any television or radio at this time, the primary form of entertainment would have been operas and musicals hired out
In the 1920’s there were several social and cultural changes. Before the twenties, thrift and frugality were the true values and consumption with abandon was bad. [2] There was a huge rise in culture, leading to economic and social changes. The development of popular culture included the rise of literature, radio, music, dance, theater, sports and recreation, art, and motion pictures. In order for corporations to make money, they produced things related to the rising popular culture.
During the gilded age, industries and cooperations grew to a massive size due to corruption and monopolization that flooded the market. During this period many Americans followed the principles of lassie faire and the government has not violated these principles until the gilded age. The government strongly agreed to subsidize the railroad companies in order to help the economy, connect the west to the east, and to create a reliable system of transportation. This action moderately violated the principles even though it was one of the biggest violations of the gilded age. American citizens pressured the government to regulate cooperations and trade in order to stop them from creating pools, make use of rebates, the monopolization of trade, and take advantage of the consumers which violated lassie faire ideas to a slight degree.
They worked as administrators, tax collectors and diplomats along with Christians. Jews were also extremely skilled in trade; hence they became leaders in the cloth, furniture, and jewelry industries. They were able to profit from lending money for a fee, which at that time Catholics were not allowed to do. Having noticed all of this, King Ferdinand V and Isabella felt that the Jews were taking control of the economy and religion in Spain and decided to take action (Proach, 2009). The main reason as to
The new production of The Great Gatsby portrayed the 1920’s with decent historical accuracy. After coming out of WWI Americans searched for pleasure and entertainment. This was evident in the movie with the numerous extravagant parties that were thrown and was shown through the lifestyles the characters lived. During this time period everyone was after the American Dream of wealth and freedom. Many people in America had hopes of attaining this dream but many were stuck in poverty working in the cities factories, or ash valley as seen in the movie.
After the First World War or “the war to end all wars”, the whole world thrived with prosperity. New inventions and industries that were damaged by the war kicked off and then came the “roaring 20’s”. The 20’s brought great riches and prosperity to many. Some people developed a fortune and new life for themself. However contrary to they’re lavish lifestyle these people who acquired new wealth were seen as unworthy to the wealthy community in America (the “old rich”) and were shunned by the click of wealthy Americans who were born into they’re materialistic lifestyle.
However, the development of new types of values, such as individualism, introduced changes throughout the Victorian Era. The idea of the self-made man became dominant in the middle class and the idea was that “if they work hard enough, all men can become wealthy”. And some people from the middle class did get rich and even joined the elite family. Middle- classes Victorians were also very prudish, and they believed that people could be easily tempted to stray from proper behavior. They were also extremely materialistic.
After a large earthquake in A.D. 62, recorded by Suetonius in his Life of Nero, many of the older elite families moved out of Pompeii to other towns. This wealth vacuum led to the rise of the "nouveau-riche", often wealthy freedmen pursuing power and stature. The Vettii brothers were a prime example of this new class that arrived in Pompeii with the earthquake rubble. The very fact that these two brothers were able to rise from the status of slaves to wealthy merchants speaks to the social mobility within their society Wall painting can be considered the most
He again uses high society families to show changes occurring in society through two other novels, This Side of Paradise and Tender Is the Night. They both take place in the twenties when all everyone was worried about was wealth. Fitzgerald shows this greed in This Side of Paradise when Rosalind won’t marry Amory because he has little money. He also shows in Tender Is the Night how people got away with about anything just because they had money. Fitzgerald looks at the American Dream realistically and sees it can be wonderful yet depressing at the same time.
The media likes to capture rock musicians using drugs at wild parties and acting irresponsible to get attention from people and increase magazine sales and ratings. I consider musicians to be artists who use music as a form of expression. The majority of their actions are to uphold certain image expectations from their fan base. Rock stars are expected to act wild and crazy always engaging in scandals to keep their fans wanting more. While a majority of these people are addicts with psychological issues who usually die from overdoses of illicit drugs many actually have families and are regular normal people when they are not in the spotlight.