What does it mean to a Woman? You have to wear a dress or skirt, only work that a women can do is being a secretary, you have to lay on your back and produce kids, as well as serving your husband. Those were the type of things people thought made a women. Some might think those are still true and other like I disagree with those terms. To be a women means you have confidence in yourself.
Furthermore I also find it hard to believe the fact that a lot of the professional athletes complain to the world that they can’t support their families. How is that even possible when everyone else in the world finds a way to make it with just a portion of the money that the athletes make. The athletes just start out greedy and continue to get even greedier. But really they have nothing to get mad about they can buy a house that cost less than 10 million dollars just like anyone else can. Maybe they need a good slap to the face and we should not pay them what they want, so what if they said they won’t play because I guarantee there are people out there that will play for way less money.
Paradox of Affluence Paradox relates to the wide separation of the wealthy and poor, for usually alongside affluence exists great poverty. A cheap way of defining affluence is to think of it as simply wealth – of any kind, not solely monetary. The more affluent a society is then the more wasteful that society can be of its own material and financial resources. Simply put the paradox of affluence is this: We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy less.
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.
How can Marxist criticism open up different interpretations of Celie’s change of status in The Colour Purple? The Colour Purple could be associated with many different Marxist ideas, for example, through the idea of freewill. Through the idea of setting in the novel we are able to see how low class Celie and her family are and how little freewill they have. Many people within her society are treated as slaves to white people and not worthy of an education of a job. This could be linked to the Marxist idea that would believe that Celie’s circumstances with her father and lack of education is a result of the class she is in, Marxists would believe that her oppression is down to the class she was born into.
“The Diamond Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant has a class conflict within it, which can be seen when the reader is using the Marxist approach. There is class conflict within the short story because Guy de Maupassant creates two very distinct classes with in his story. One of the classes within the short story is the proletariat class; they are of the working class meaning they have to work for what they want in life. The other class in this short story is the bourgeoisie class are the ones “who own property and thereby control the means of production” (Dobie, 87) or the middle class as they are known in today’s society. These two classes are clearly established and are maintained throughout the short story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald uses various characters to portray how social society’s obsession with class dilutes the foundations of humanity, because the high society essentially has nothing to work towards. In the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald shows how high society brings out the shallowness and inhumanity in people as it creates superior arrogance, ungratefulness and finally it impedes their moral values. Characters in The Great Gatsby who were born into wealth, are used to getting what they desire. This has misconstrued their outlook on interacting with people. With a sense of entitlement, characters like Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan talk down to other people.
Conclusion: Poverty Does Not Fosters Crime Many people believe that poverty is the main cause of crimes in a city or country. They believe that the only thing poor people do is steal, mug, or even assassin to get things instead of working like a normal people do. For example, I have seen very rich people claiming that poor people are a problem to society because they do not give anything good to it; how poor people are thrown away from certain places only because they “scare normal people”, now society excludes them because of fear. We have become so judgmental that when we see a black guy or some other man with not so good clothes or with a not so good appearance (or in any way that poor people look) walking down the street coming right at us, we immediately though that he is going to assault us and maybe kill us; but if we see a man in a business suit, well shaved, with a clean hair cut, and a nice smile we might think it is even a friends of ours that is coming to say hi. There is something society should know, the rate of crimes is increasing in wealthy countries; the man in the suit could have done a scam or he might me a hit man.
When Mrs. Mooney is observing Polly’s interactions with young men, she becomes frustrated that “none of [the men] meant business” and considers sending Polly back to her previous job (63). Mrs. Mooney is highly focused on her own aspirations, and therefore compromises her sense of empathy. Mrs. Mooney is a heavy influence on Polly’s actions. Mrs. Mooney acts as if she is unaware of Polly’s affair with Bob Doran; however, Mrs. Mooney and Polly share an unspoken understanding. Mrs. Mooney is the ringleader of Polly’s indecency, and manages Polly under implicit control.
The flower is everything she is and everything she is made of. Elisa has “growing hands” which in turn brings out the fertility and the rich potential that they possess. Henry does not see the beauty in the flowers like Elisa does. He does not appreciate the “ great soft blossoms shaped like a woman’s breast”(Steinbeck 240) which is the reflection of her sexually. which in turn he cannot appreciate or see the ripeness and vitality of the woman whom seems to be created in every way possible for reproduction.