The rich are penalized for their contribution to the economy through high tax. Our benefit system has spawned a class of intelligent people who exploit the system! In my view this general state has risen from economic and educational divides. I find that the way that different classes of people react to each other, and how they have different mind-sets a bit weird. I mean “who really cares if you dad is worth £1.5 billion or you live in downtown London?” Unfortunately there are people who will judge you based just on your money which saddens me as many of the happiest and nicest people I know are not vastly rich but balanced all rounded individuals.
Although the feminist movement was on the rise, so was the divorce rate. This decade was where the divorces increased the most, and families started to fall apart. In the 1980s family was not the most essential priority. Just like in the book “Blow” by Bruce Porter, George Jung was not the best father figure. His job, which was smuggling cocaine, made him money hungry and was more interested in making more and more and more money that family wasn’t his top priority in life.
Treatment of Willy Loman as a Tragic Hero: Death of a Salesman, Miller’s most famous work, while addressing the painful conflicts within one family, tackles larger issues regarding American national values. The play examines the cost of blind faith in the American Dream. In this respect, it offers a postwar American reading of personal tragedy in the tradition of Sophocles’ Oedipus Cycle. Miller charges America with selling a false myth constructed around a capitalist materialism nurtured by the postwar economy, a materialism that obscured the personal truth and moral vision of the original American Dream described by the country’s founders. The tone of Miller’s stage directions and dialogue ranges from sincere to parodying, but, in general, the treatment is tender, though at times brutally honest, towards the protagonist’s plight.
The Great Gatsby compared to The Roaring Twenties The Great Gatsby and the Roaring Twenties are two sets of literature that are based on money and class disparity. If you don’t have money then you don’t really have anything in common, but if you aren’t in the same class, then you definitely don’t have anything in common. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Kenn Allen both use foreshadowing, symbolism and setting to show the importance of wealth, while living in the 1920’s. In the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald foreshadows that something bad will happen from people’s carelessness and greed. He writes, ”Her voice was filled with money” (Fitzgerald, P. 187) referring to Daisy talking with the other townspeople.
The Real Face of the American Dream “The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision of the dream.”- Azar Nafisi. People are striving to achieve the American Dream, but they seem to be more drawn to money and success rather than values and morals, and by doing so they miss the main idea of the American Dream. The author of the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is challenges the readers to examine how the American Dream was portrayed in the 1920s and he express the negative aspect of the American Dream through the characters’ lives. The author demonstrates it by showing the wrong perception of the American Dream in this time period, by the illusion that the Buchanan's have the American Dream and by the bad impacts the American Dream has on the characters’ lives. The novel The Great Gatsby demonstrates the wrong idea people in the 1920s had on the American Dream.
By creating distinct social classes-old money, new money, and no money-Fitzgerald sends strong messages about the elitism running throughout society. The first and most obvious group Fitzgerald attacks is, of course, the rich. He presents two distinct types of wealthy people. First, there are people like the Buchanans and Jordan Baker who were born into wealth. Their families have had money for many generations, and are known as the ‘old money’.
It makes the standard of living for the masses suffer. The price of basic necessities sky rocket, like the recent price rise in gas and other fuels. I hope to explore several individual cases of economic disasters and depressions and asses what was the root cause of their failure. My first case study is the German Hyperinflation of 1918-1924. Before the first world war had started the Germans over spent and went into a massive deficit because they thought that when the won the war they would inherit the country and its wealth.
The support from literature is the image of different communities and cultures. As a reader, we can have an open-minded to the reading of the story. We also learn about other ways of life and how it can reflects with our own life, our history, and situations. If the story we read is an imaginary tale, invented story, novel or even the truth, the method of literature has a way of getting our attention and helps us show the impact that our feelings have about that certain story. Literature replicates the community by the occurrence of different culture, attitude, setting, and belief.
In the light of Biff’s view of Willy Loman in the Requiem that ‘he had the wrong dreams. All wrong’, discuss the importance of dreams in the play. Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Millar in 1949 and has a different perspective of the prosperous American Dream. Dreams are the very essence of the play and the majority of the time, dreams affects the characters behaviour, most notably Willy Loman. The protagonist of the play is Willy Loman, the father and a salesman failing to make money.
We see examples of this pull of money in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, through Nick’s eyes. It is through the narrator's dealings with high society that readers are shown how modern values have transformed the American Dream's pure ideals into a scheme for materialistic power and further, how the world of high society lacks any sense of morals or consequence. Fitzgerald shows the influence of money in decision making and motivation for people in every character of the book; money pushes Gatsby to get what he has lost, it leads Daisy to marry a man who she does not love, and money influences the actions of Gatsby’s friends after he dies. Gatsby, the protagonist of the book is attracted to Daisy, her social standing, and wealth, but he realizes that he did not had the influential charm of money or power that could create a similar pull in Daisy’s heart for him. Gatsby puts away every other aspect Samra 2 of American Dream and focuses on earning enough money to get his Daisy to him.