Class or Gender Analysis on story "The Necklace" ( 4-5 page essay)
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Marxism_and_Gender_Lecture_Slides1.pptxFor this half of the population, the very notions of wealth and capital are relatively abstract. For millions of people, “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account or low-interest savings account, a car, and a few pieces of furniture. The inescapable reality is this: wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence, so that some people imagine that it belongs to surreal or mysterious entities.
Economist Tim Picketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ― Karl Marx
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.” ― Karl Marx
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s Ideas: The Second Sex 1949
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”
From Matilda’s Perspective: “...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
On Marriage: “All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
“A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.”
“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
Matilda’s Gendered Punishment: “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.” tags: beauty, body-image, diet-industry, eating-disorders, self-esteem, weight
Matilda’s Partial Redemption “I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Actor, Katharine Hepburn: “The Last of the Honest-to-God Ladies” (Lee Israel)
And the idiotic way women are still forced to dress. That’s just plain sad to me. No matter how free women get, they always seem to be absolutely tied into asinine clothes.
Hell, I’m a woman, so I’m naturally interested in the feminist cause. I hate to see women a victim of things which to me are totally silly. Totally silly. For instance, jewels, and dresses, and stockings and shoes, and a million uncomfortable high heels. All the desperately uncomfortable things and eye makeup dripping off. For what? For what, for God’s sake!
Possibly it’s all right from the age of fifteen to twenty-five, during the first domination of desire, to be fascinating to the opposite sex. But once one is onto that routine, anybody who relies on all that junk to be fascinated by you isn’t worth fascinating…
