there was the traditional landed aristocracy‚ represented by Lady Catherine and the owner of Pemberley‚ Darcy‚ with their insular culture‚ hesistant to negotiate with the upwardly mobile middle class professionals. At the same time‚ a new class of gentry as emerging hich had acquired its fortune through trade. Mr. Bingley belongs to this category. The Lucases‚ “formerly in trade”‚ had “made a tolerable fortune” and promptly quit the market town occupied by them earlier. The professionals like Mr.
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Tragedy of Pu Fei-yen Name Course anme Professor name 30/11/2012 Tragedy of Pu Fei-yen The ancient Chinese love story "The tragedy of Pu Fei-Yan"‚ which is an ancient Chinese story‚ depicts the love between two people‚ Fei-yen and Hsiang. It follows their attraction‚ betrayal‚ romance and ultimate death. In this paper I will focus on the female paragon defined by Confucian code of womanly virtues and the use of words for subliminal seduction. I will also focus on the feudal structure of the
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gender. A person’s social class could determine everything from the furniture in their house to the education of their children. There were various social classes that someone could belong to. The nobility was at the top‚ followed by the gentry. After the gentry‚ there were farmers who owned their own land. Though not well off or wealthy‚ they were still comfortably off. Though the standard of life grew more comfortably for those in the higher class‚ it did not change very much for those in the lower
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one‚ a vast mass of thoughtless individuals who just have demise on their psyches. The third blame that Dickens needs to bring up in the novel is the way the legal framework is degenerate. All through the novel Dickens says that any of the gentry could have put any individual in jail just by "making a
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patriarchal society through the strong female character of Sal Thornhill. Sal has been the brains of her family through their tough times in London and their settlement in Sydney. Sal is the wife of William Thornhill‚ a convict. The memory of how the gentry treated Thornhill pushed him to work himself up into the foreign land of Australia to become like that gentleman he had served once back in London‚ in the water of Thames–the one with the power and the one who looked down on him who represents the
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“compromise candidate”(Bergere‚ Marie-Clare‚ Sun Yat-sen‚ 1994‚ p. 12). This interpretation holds Sun Yat-sen as a respected but unimportant figure in the revolution‚ serving as an ideal compromise between the revolutionaries and the conservative gentry. However‚ perspectives differ‚ Sun Yat-sen is credited for the funding of the revolutionary movement and for “keeping the spirit of revolution alive”(MacFarquhar‚ Roderick‚ Cambridge History of China: The People’s Republic‚ 1998‚ p. 261)‚ despite
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Key: Unfurrowed Field – Prgh elude/Epilude Ploughing Drilling Seedtime Harvest THEMES Change Pg.27 - And serve them right‚ they’d little care for anybody‚ the dirt that rode in motors‚ folk said. • Motorcars are becoming more popular among the village‚ showing the change and move towards the future of technology. It also demonstrates the divide between social classes and the distrust and dispute between them. Pg.31 - The groans of Nell‚ the old horse of the Guthrie’s‚ caught in a daft swither
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This goes to prove that more taxing and demanding courses of study such as math or physics are being disregarded by women more and more. To elaborate‚ women make up more than half of the college-educated populace‚ but only (Gentry) make up 24% of the STEM workforce (Gentry). Overall‚ forty percent of women are represented in the life sciences and sixty percent have a career in social sciences. These two fields have been adequately represented in our society (Martin). However‚ the most concerning
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largely paid out to provide necessities. But‚ in the later 17th Century the new economic context meant that there was an increasingly large number of prosperous townsmen who‚ in many cases for the first time‚ had money to spare. They looked to the gentry society and used their surpluses to try and pursue the culture‚ status and power of which they were so
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Criticism It can be said that New Historicism often looks for ways in which writers express ideas or possible opinions within their writing. For example‚ Jane Austen novels are often confined to a very limited sphere of society‚ namely the landed gentry.
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