Bourgeois

the family relation to a mere money relation” (Engels). This upper middle class, the bourgeois, was divided into separate spheres determined by their “natural characteristics” such as being male or female (Gender 1). The bourgeois society’s main concern was their outward appearance and materialism while gaining respectability among their social class. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, criticizes Victorian bourgeois society and their strict adherence to gender roles. As Nora Helmer walked away from her

Karl Marx does not promotes the abolition of owning property, but the property of the rich, or bourgeois. He believed the bourgeois’ property was obtained from the proletariat, which he calls the poor people, as exploitation of their labor. He believed the value we have on property diminished the value of people and their individuality. Proletarians do not acquire property, as their labor is what they can “sell”, which at the same time is what serves to exploit them. Once a worker was no longer useful

beginning of the reading Marx was stating that the “line” between the Bourgeois and Proletariats was dispersing, because of division of labor and machinery been developed into existence. He continues to say since those two developments have come about that the Proletariats will eventually take down the Bourgeois on the basis’s of the Proletariats past to present life. The Proletariats know the struggle of fighting for a living and the Bourgeois know nothing, but a life of privilege, which will be a huge advantage

numbers, the Nobility had one thing over on them, Social Status. This leads on to the main crux of the Marxist argument, that there was a class struggle between the Nobles and the Bourgeois. The Nobility were being left far behind and the Bourgeois were steaming ahead, getting wealthier and more powerful by the day. The Bourgeois were growing richer through Commerce and Industry. Ships left for the Levant, Africa, and the Caribbean in droves. Coal and Iron production was going full steam ahead, along with

interpretations. The Marxists recognize the French Revolution as the conflict between the old order (feudal system) and the modern society. On the other hand, the revisionists consider the French Revolution as essentially a political revolution, instead of a bourgeois revolution. From my perspective, the French Revolution is a combined consequence of both economic and political causes. Although revisionists have their valid arguments, I can’t agree with their ignorance of the social conflict, the complex economy

history. In the beginning passage, the first line stated: “A spectre is haunting Europe the spectre of Communism" (322). Europe is under oppression from communism, and it seems as if the battle of classes are going to clash. In the first section of Bourgeois and Proletarians, this quote stated that "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (232). Since the beginning

they actually express the values of the ‘atomistic individualism of bourgeois society’. (Sayers, 2003) “The so-called rights of man … are simply the rights of a member of civil society, that is, of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the community.” (Marx,

The final showdown: Courbet VS Marx Gustave Courbet once said, "When I die, let it be said of me: He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty. (The Painter's Key) “The reader can understand from this phrase that Courbet didn't want to be associated with a class; he wanted the artistic freedom not to be restrained in the world. This idea can be seen in his 1855 painting "The Painters Studio" where an artist situated

image of a bourgeois society with its emphasis on wealth and property, is only a mirage. Underneath it all is a different world of oppression—specifically, for women in the bourgeois class. In Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler and Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, both works depict female characters in the bourgeois class who face the societal oppression and cope with it in their own way. These oppressions are often set off by the male characters, constructed by the bourgeois society.

inimical to happiness is because the bourgeois control the means of production, which has a detrimental effect on the proletariat financially. The balances of power between the bourgeois and the proletariat are always uneven and place the proletariat at a disadvantage. This imbalance of power alienates the employees; by placing the proletariat in menial role and this creates no room for development in any new skills. The menial position created by the bourgeois limits the proletariat ability to create