Social Class Systems During The Nineteenth Century

In the first chapter of A Tale of Two cities, Dickens emphasizes the fact of how bad the people lived. "It was the worst of times," due to mistreatment from the third estate. But it was also the "best of times," for the nobles, and higher class people who could actually afford things, and weren't mistreated and starved.

As class and race had some influence on The Gilded Age and Progressive Era, gender explains the character of these periods because there were several instances were manhood was threatened, which pushed males to reassert their manhood. Gender was also critical in displaying women’s active role in American society. There even were cases in which these periods sought to protect women and demonstrated the emergence of women’s new identity.

The 1920s witnessed the betrayal of these ideals underlying the American Dream. The Jazz age generation ignored Franklin’s concern for moral betterment and public service, while embracing his emphasis on material advancement. This period also witnessed the degradation of Jefferson’s ideal of equality in its renewal of racism and anti-immigration laws. With the American Economy, capitalism created a sharp division of society into lower class and a leisure class, controlling the economy and practicing conspicuous consumption.

There were several classes of whites in the Antebellum South. The first class is what you call your elite or high class which were the wealthy, high society, grower gentry who were land rich. The first class possessed at least 20 or more slaves and accomplished their wealth from the development and sale of the cash crops, cotton and rice. The children of the upper class were often educated by personal tutors or at private schools in South Carolina and abroad. Next, there was the middle class of white people. The middle class consisted of tradesman, merchants, sharecroppers and etc. When the economy stayed steady, it allowed the middle class people to make a living. Their children were taught to read and write, basically learn the

During the period from colonial times to the Civil War, the United States was not truly a “land of the free.” During early colonial times before the American Revolution, the colonies were under the rule of Britain. Not only were the colonists not free from Britain, they weren’t free from themselves. The new Americans put every citizen in a social class. Being under a class meant that you could not do anything that your class was not allowed to do.

2. What role did the family play in the socialization and control of children before the 1800s? Family served as a primary institution of social control. Many adults played a role in children’s socialization and control.

At first, Austen reveals the tensions between the working class and the upper class and emphasizes the rigid social structure that existed in nineteenth century London. The rigidity of the social structure can be attributed to the fact that “no class exists for itself but is bound by reciprocated rights and duties to classes above and below” (Kilger 359). Although the classes are separate and very distinct from each other, they still all depend on one another to thrive and succeed. However, this was definitely not the case during the

In the early american colonies, a social class was not fully determined. In the 1680’s, the government of United States did not exist. As a country in progress, the citizens determined the freedom of an individual through three classes. The highest class contained the gentry, or aristocratic citizens. Members of this class were typically the most wealthy. As the richest class, they have the most freedom above the other classes. The middle class contains the farmers and plantation owners. Members of the middle class were not as rich as the higher class, however they have much freedom. The lowest class consists of the African-American slaves. This class has no freedom, for they are in command of the gentry or of the plantation owners that own

Class struggles as we american see it everyday. they’re lower, middle, and upper classes. Since the 1800s class been a struggle as well as many people to try to find where they should be places, it was based on on background, race, and wealth. Many people in the 1800s thought they could rise up to different class , that you had to stay in what you grew up in. the lower class consisted of slaves, indentured servants and serfs.

Social class is defined as 'people having the same social or economic status' (Wordnet). In contemporary American society, social class is based on the amount of money and property you have and also prestige. Prestige is given to a person through the line of work or the family that they come from. For example, upper-upper class member Jennifer Lopez reeks of prestige not only because she has millions of dollars in her bank account, but she has very expensive luxuries, cars, and houses.

In the novel "A Tale of Two Cities" Charles Dickens describes "the best of times [and] the worst of times" (1) of the characters. France and England struggle through political confusion, which is one of the most disturbing periods of history. On the other hand, for the characters of the novel, these are the times of rebirth and revival. The author conveys the dual nature of this epoch by contrasting representations of light and dark, chaos and stability, doom and hope with the use of setting, characterization, foreshadowing, symbolism, and plot set up.

Social class differences were a major contributor to the story line and the lasting effect of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Social classes has a broad set of criteria that the majority of people think determines class. Dickens uses class differences for various reasons but most importantly, he uses them to show how he felt about those differences. Additionally, the fact that the differences that Dickens displays in the book are similar to today's class variations, makes Great Expectations and its theme of class, influential to this day. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations perfectly illustrates the Victorian era’s class differences and shows where Dickens compassions laid.

Revolution. Blood. Class. Love. Nature. Self-suppression. All of these elements are interwoven into A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Howards End by E.M. Forster. Though Dickens and Forster wrote during different time periods, both held a firm belief about the proper model for English society. Forster wrote about nature, about the contradiction between city and country life, about the rich and the poor, about one’s personal and private lives. Dickens concentrated heavily on the plight of the poor and desolate; France is representative of England’s future under the current monarchy. Dickens saw God in his work and elevated the most unobvious of characters to Christ-like status. Yet, both firmly recognized the downtrodden and the contradictions within man; both attempted to highlight these conditions. Forster’s convoluted view of self, due to the suppression of his sexuality, tainted his writing to snub the poor and glorify the rich while trying to satirize both, still upholding the belief that society will only attain perfection when man can reconcile his private and public lives; Dickens handles the treatment of the lower classes differently, broadcasting how believed equality can corrupt, but also showcasing the relative goodness that breathes life into man’s breast through Sidney Carton. Despite their distinctive treatments of the poor, man’s propensity for

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, the lower class’s population continued to increase as more and more people became poor and fell into poverty. Although the upper class was prosperous and wealthy, they failed to assist the struggling population; this only made the problem worse. As the issue of poverty became more critical, it became a topic that authors commonly wrote about. George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift were authors who presented the problem of a poor community and a neglectful upper class to the people through the use of allegory and satire. This helped to easily convince and influence their readers. Through the use of satire and allegory, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift effectively address the pressing issue of the upper class’s ignorance and mistreatment towards the lower, struggling class.

Hardships are hard ships to sail. People of every nation and tongue have faced difficult times and life itself seemed hectic. In Victorian England, people often experienced difficulties just to survive. Poverty was a force that struck Victorian England with all of its might. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor and unable to provide for oneself. Trials and tribulations that one who is poverty stricken may encounter are vividly demonstrated in Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. Questions to consider when trying to understand this common lifestyle during the Victorian Era would be who lived in poverty, what was their lifestyle, and what were their living conditions.