Gatsby longs for perfection that he feels he needs to lie and cheat his way towards, and Daisy longs for materialistic things that she will get by any means, even if she has to deny herself true love. Gatsby and Daisy’s tendencies mirror the commonplace morals and attitudes of the 1920’s, but they also mirror widespread views that American society still holds today. There are many people in twenty-first century America that are like Daisy, who love and desire wealth and hold a steady obsession with material objects. There is no doubt that people still probably marry for wealth and status the same way Daisy and so many others did during the 1920’s. The obsession with social hierarchy drives people to be selfish and greedy- never happy with what they have.
Kate was a female blacksmith and Jocelyn was a noble lady. Jocelyn has more privileges than Kate because she is of higher class rankings. This relates to stratification because of the power, privileges, and social worth both of the women must have to play a role in society. What was Goeffery most famous for? Writing; “The Book of the Duchess” Why did Aldamar get away with the stuff he did?
Even women, who were always viewed inferior to men, would be more fortunate if they were an aristocrat. In Western Europe, women could have power if they were upper-class aristocrats, monarchs, or members of the royal family. In China, women of upper classes would get their feet bound, which would deepen their reliance on men. Additionally, for both China and Western Europe a patriarchal society was at large. In China, though, the patriarchy was of Neo-Confucianism, which kept women away from education, civil service, inheritance, and other rights.
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.
The nobility depended on a constant infusion of talent and economic power from the wealthy social groups of the third estate. There were important social tensions. The price of the offices rose, making it even more difficult to buy a way into the nobility. This formed more tensions between average members of the third estate and the very rich, who were the only group able to meet the expense to climb the social latter. 2.
The claim that Paine makes that would be most feeble today is that America is a place where the poor are privileged and the rich are not. The United States is increasingly becoming a place where to be poor is to be underprivileged. Though it only sounds logical that a poor person should be underprivileged, it is also true that a country should be judged by the way it treats its worst off citizens. In America today, we have Government officials, many of them Republican, who are vehemently opposed to public programs that benefit the poor. Meanwhile, the richest Americans continue to expand their wealth.
Jay Gatsby is also wealthy but would rather simply be affluent. By placing the characters in compromising situations, Fitzgerald expresses the pain and misery that can result from careless actions and heartless words. Throughout the novel, the 1920s are portrayed as a moral wasteland. The lives of the wealthy are a moral wasteland. However, this is not to be confused with the lives of the affluent.
Isn’t that just being mean to them? Why should they bear the entire burden, they are the only ones talked of in this debate of economic inequality as spoiling the equality curve. Is this a way to bring them down, to level the curve? Let’s consider this; these top 20% wealthy rich are the minority in our society. Whether it’s open voting or polling concerning such issues, the odds are against them.
Dickens and Bronte both have expressed their views on class segregation and the effect that it has on people. The protagonist in each Novel shows how both sides of wealth affect them in different ways. Class ultimately plays an underlining role in expressing the moral of each novel. In this essay I aim to look at how Dickens and Bronte have expressed the role and importance of class through their novels Great Expectations and wuthering heights. In Great Expectations we see our protagonist Pip go from poverty to riches.
Heathcliff, on the other hand, learns to classify himself as a member of the lower class, as he does not possess the qualities of those at the Grange. The critical essay explains a main point in Wuthering Heights, Catherine's decision to marry Edgar Linton rather than Heathcliff, and this decision widens the gap between social classes. Edgar Linton is a wealthy man of high status, and Heathcliff is poor and possesses no assets. Catherine does not consider personal feelings, but instead, she focuses on her outward appearance to society. "Edgar Linton will be rich and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighborhood whereas if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars (81).