By kicking her, Rosaura express her refusal to know the truth about Luciana not being her friend. The girl with the bow literally says the truth and Rosaura still doesn’t want to hear it and accept that she is wrong. She is stubborn about not seeing the truth because it would mean that all her dreams would be unrealisable. More revealing, at the beginning of the party, she enters with a “firm step” (10). Her way to enter the party shows her confidence and her supposedly belonging to the upper social class.
Specifically, through the eyes of the young character of Rosaura, Liliana Heker, shows that “One’s identity isn’t defined by who he thinks he is but by the social class he’s born into”. Since the beginning of the story Liliana Heker shows Rosaura’s blindness over the barrier between social classes. First of all, Rosaura really demonstrates she thinks there’s no difference between her status and any other social classes when she argues with her mother by telling her mom “Rich people go to heaven too”(9). She thinks that everybody is equal, simply because this is what her church tells her every single day. This one sentence reveals her innocence and her refusal to see the gap between social classes.
They may also look at stereotypes the impoverished have towards the wealthy. Symbolic interactionists generally look at the face-to-face interactions between individuals. From a conflict theory perspective, poverty is imposed; reflecting unequal power among social groups, and it will continue to be imposed until those harmed by it manage to force a change. Conflict theory would also argue that the explanations offered by functionalism and symbolic interactionism theory are themselves part of what sustains poverty, as they conceal its true origins and encourage the poor to accept existing social arrangements rather than organize to combat them. Another important question to ask about any explanation or policy proposal is "who benefits?” It is said to have been a principle of criminal investigation in Rome that those who stood to gain from an event were probably the ones responsible for it.
In short, Mrs. Warren's Profession is a reflection, through the main characters, on the era's class, gender, and economical structure that together fuel corruption and immorality in society. Mrs. Warren's profession is a play that illustrates in clarity how powerful class divisions can be to the contribution of spreading vice in society. As Bernard Shaw remarked in the "Apology" from Mrs. Warren's Profession: As long a poverty makes virtue hideous and the spare pocket money of rich bachelordom makes vice dazzling, their [moralists] daily hand-to-hand fight against prostitution . . .
Kate’s disapproval and hesitancy towards the Lughnasa festival illustrates the role of religion in the society they live in, she uses the noun ‘fever’ to describe the town’s reaction to the dance, the noun has negative connotations which authenticates her judgement. Kate’s paranoia of how the society observes the household is in fact one of her downfalls, as it often causes unnecessary tension within the household. For instance Kate’s reluctance to the idea of attending the Lughnasa festival despite the fact it brought enlightenment and joy to the family, ‘do you know the whole country side will be laughing at us? Mature women’ conveys a strong sense of Catholic tradition and the fear of upholding a good reputation for the family represents the harsh, hypocritical view of the society in their time. Kate also acts as a messenger to the outside world as she is the only sister who earns and supports the family, the sisters immediately ambush her for news of the outside world ‘what sort of prank’ ‘what are they saying in town’ the sisters reactions exemplifies
The story starts off right away describing Madame Loisel beauty and charm but unfortunately she was born into the wrong class. She isn’t happy with the life that she has. She dreams of a life with parties and elegant dresses and jewels. Madame Loisel is so envious of a rich, old school friend who lives a different life that she actually refuses to go and visit because she feels worse about her life when she returns home. Her friend doesn’t appear to be proud of boastful in the story and doesn’t seem to care that Madame Loisel is poorer than her.
Blanche is also shown to avoid bright because of her “delicate beauty” [15]. The audience has created an image of Blanche as a wealthy woman with high pretensions, but that image is doubted when Blanche reveals more about her life, thus creating more tension. After she describes how she “stayed and struggled” through “all of [the] deaths” of their relatives and how Belle Reve “slipped through [her] fingers” [27], the audience learns that Blanche had difficulties in her past, making her
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.
Looks can be deceiving and I believe this statement plays a great role in this story. The main character, Mathilde, encounters a situation where she feels as though she belongs in a higher class based off her beautiful looks. She is neither wealthy nor comes from a family of wealth but feels as though she deserves as much because of her appearance. Unsatisfied with her lifestyle, Mathilde noticeably expresses her dilemma by complaining to her husband, Monsieur Loisel that she doesn’t want to attend the special event because she has nothing of higher class to wear. Mathilde then borrowed her rich friend Madame Forestier’s necklace, and at that moment, I could already foreshadow something bad to happen.
These children are way too young to be worrying about what they look like when they look in the mirror. It is appalling for these grown adults, especially their moms, to be adding all the pressure and stress that should not be obtained until high school when their peers will start to judge naturally, it is disgusting and cruel. These young girls are dressed up provocatively and imitate grown woman by winking and blowing kisses to the judges while moving their bodies as if they were fully developed. The pageant world completely destroys their innocence. Girls have been seen dressed up as Dolly Parton wearing padding on their chest and bottom to pull of the full celebrity look.