He does this by things such as calling her nicknames with negative characteristics, such as his little lark, spendthrift and featherhead. Both Nora and Torvald, put on a face for the rest of the world and each other. Surprisingly, these choices of façade complimented each other. We gradually see how it isn’t good enough for her, yet hides it anyways through most of the play. In this era, it is expected for a woman to go straight from her father’s hand to her husband’s and the sacrifices it meant.
Stratification by class was particularly important to him. Marx argued that ‘The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’. For Marx there were two distinct classes in society; the capitalist class, who own the means of production, and the working class, who own only their labour power which they sell to the capitalist class, or bourgeoisie, in return for wages. He then made a formation of social classes in society results from a given society’s economic structure or base. He argued that classes formed the only significant groups in society and inequality was the result of a group’s relationship to the means of production.
Priestley is seen as speaking through the inspector showing his modern day view of social responsibility to Edna as the Birlings treat her as a low class maid with not a lot of respect. Mr Birling says “All right Edna, show him in here, give us some more light” the fact Mr Birling does not use manners show’s he is disrespecting her and throughout the play he doesn’t say please or thank you to Edna. This shows that the inspector symbolically Priestley, has a better social responsibility than Mr Birling and that he is from modern day
Marxism sees the Proletariats and the Bourgeoisie as conflicting positions. The women have their ways around the harsh treatment they receive and do things such as send their daughters to school, which is considered rebelling against the men, creating conflict between the sexes. In the novel The Color Purple, it is evident that Alice Walker was influenced by the Marxist criticism, the women represent Proletariats and the men represent Bourgeoisie in their 1930’s American Society. Although society has come to much better in regards to respect for men and women, prejudice behaviours still exist causing counter productivity in our society. Communism is an ever present behaviour and a way of life that the men and women of the 1930’s lived by in America.
In the beginning she is bitter towards her, and isn't afraid to show it no matter what her dad thinks. Later on, she starts to regret her past words and says, "Several times I came across letters dealing with the subject "mummy" in such a hotheaded way and I was quite shocked" (pg 127). Anne begins to rethink her childish remarks and realizes what her relationship towards her mother lacks and learns to accept it instead of changing it. She becomes more tolerant with her mother and makes most of the little relationship they have. Little is exactly what Anne thinks of Peter in the beginning of her diary.
His concepts of mechanical and organic societies, as well as his fascination with the division of labour and the connections to (social) solidarity and moral, are presented – followed by anomie. Finally, the key ideas of both, Marx and Durkheim, are compared directly. Marx Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) is concerned with the exact development of industrial capitalist society. For him, most social classes or structures in the past have either ended in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. Therefore, part of his ideology is to minimise the division of labour to an extend which would make it possible to reduce certain negative impacts that industrial capitalism has on the individual.
Although it is important to recognize how much of history is made up by class conflict, it is imperative to understand how social classes coped with struggles and eventually developed. The transformation of social classes during Marx and Engel’s time was triggered by the mark of the Industrial Revolution, and it was sustained by a newfound sense of self-interest, along with a lasting social gap between classes. The Industrial Revolution signified the change of class structure and empowered the middle class. The Communist Manifesto begins with Carl Marx’s theory of the history of class formation. Based on this theory, the formation of classes occurred because of the continual development of the industry and the growing demand of the middle class.
The whole poems started during the time woman were tending to stay quite. She wrote the poem to express her opinion of a female’s voice in the society. She speaks in a worthless tone. In her view women were not different than men. Bradstreet also shows identity for the Puritan men that criticize her work because men had more talent and skill, which come in handy in the society, but she sees that it’s unfair.
She thinks that she is far better off marrying him and she is very jealous. Mrs Sparsit wants to be part of the family, like a wife to Mr Bounderby, so she can still boss him around. But the awkward thing is, is that Mr Bounderby only thinks of Mrs Sparsit as a maid, and a useful lady around the house, and nothing more! Mrs Sparsit calls Louisa ‘Mrs Gradgrind.’ This is after her fathers name, because she doesn’t think that Louisa is worthy of Bounderby’s name. One point of imagery that Dickens uses is Mrs Sparsit’s staircase, where she imagines that Louisa is at the top of a staircase, and each time she takes a step down, it is one step closer to having an affair with Hearthouse, and cheating on Mr Bounderby.
An old lady has just told me that I speak exactly like Queen Victoria. (Shaw67)” This is a key moment in the play, because the reader can see Eliza’s true desire to ultimately fit in with the elegant women of the higher social class . Before this moment, Eliza wanted to be compared to the queen, but now she realizes she sticks out for, in her mind, the wrong reasons. Prior to her metamorphosis Eliza was alienated by society for her barbaric nature, but after she learns the importance of phonetics she is once again alienated for being exceedingly eloquent. This is ironic because the once poor uneducated flower girl has surpassed the social status of the women she once envied.