I felt this story had many missing parts, although the author portrayed the message of Marxism, it did not really represent this idea of how young people treat the older generation. I think that the author over emphasized how our society desire a perfect home and lifestyle, and feel its not how people would handle a situation with the elderly. I am sort of divided in the middle of, liking this book and not liking this book. I believe the greatest victim in the story is Mrs. Fullerton. From the beginning her living conditions are sub par, her house in disrepair and a widowed lady.
Two other females that had nicknames are known as a sexual need in the film because McMurphy invited them over to seduce the guard and Billy. First, women are inferior to men because they were never given a position of power. During the 1960s, woman did not have any experience with power because they still lived in a society where men are taking control. In quote, “These gender roles have been used very successfully to justify inequities, which still occur today, such as excluding women from equal access to leadership and decision – making positions” (Tyson, page 85). Males still see females as patriarchal women, not as leaders or decision makers.
The poor, working class describe the valley of ashes, where the low social status people live. The West Egg represents the middle class or the low end of the high-class people. West Eggers have to earn their money to become New Money, to be like the East Eggers. Wealthy and careless people live in the East Egg. The high status people who do not have to work for their money live.
With only having the job as a “happy homemaker” woman in the 1950’s felt dissatisfaction and needed fulfillment in their life other than staying home, and taking care of their families. Consequently, in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller women were portrayed almost the same way. They both were treated poorly and held a position of that inferior to men. Because, women in the Crucible held no real power or independence they were forced to follow the negative stereotypes of the 1950’s. Women in the 1950’s were expected to stay home, and were more or less left out of everything that were to be of importance.
Although capitalist societies are often favored over other economic systems such as systems of the Weyewa and Gabra, these systems work well in there societies and show that wealth is more than just money or possessions. These societies calculate wealth in response to social ties. If one is rich , they are able to call on a lot of other people and know those people will respond. Here a economy of people are favored over an economy of possessions. Living in a society (the United States) where the opposite happens puts your mind in very different type of perspective.
There seems to be a lot of excuses that don’t work. For example: Women stay home to raise their children thus not working at the same level as men in their jobs. Not true, the statics show the data is on job responsibilities not tenure or climbing the career ladder. Women are taught to not ask for more and if they do they can expect to be replaced. Women will stay in a disparate working environment for long periods of time.
Of course, those already in power bitterly resent this; that is why there is such a strong anti-democratic streak in wealthy conservatives and business owners. They complain that democracy allows the poor to legally steal from the rich. (Liberals counter that unregulated capitalism allows the rich to exploit and therefore steal from the poor, and taxes simply correct for that.) But democracy also works in the other direction as well. If we lived in a society where everyone was paid equally, despite their different inputs, people would surely vote to create a system of incentives and rewards.
To begin with, the two men in Mattie’s life were baffled at her want of knowledge. Both Pa and Royal farmed for a living, so Mattie’s way of thinking was frowned upon. For instance, when Miss Wilcox tried to persuade Pa into allowing Mattie to attend Barnard College, he blamed both Miss Wilcox and Mattie’s mamma for her “flighty streak” and felt as though Mattie was perfectly fine working at the farm with no college curriculum to challenge her (166-167). In addition, Royal, her “boyfriend” and neighbor, often asked Mattie why she wanted to travel to New York to read books when she could read them in the North Woods (190). To add to the novel’s theme, Mattie was frequently controlled by Pa and Royal’s authoritative commands.
She is hiding it from her husband because he didn’t let her write anything or do anything, because in Victorian times, women had less opportunity than men. Also women had to listen to what their husbands said as they were the heads of the house. The husband didn’t believe his wife which shows gender role and creates marital problem when he come to know that he was wrong about not believing her and she was mentally
A new breed of middle and upper class where fighting their way into the limelight, and seeking to be social accepted. “Marxist Terry Eagleton posits a complex and contradictory relationship between the landed gentry and aristocracy, the traditional power-holders, and the capitalist, industrial middle classes, who were pushing for social acceptance and political power. Simultaneously with the struggle among these groups, an accommodation was developing based on economic interests”. Both writers came from middle class families although Charles Dickens did suffer hardship for a short period of time. Dickens and Bronte both have expressed their views on class segregation and the effect that it has on people.