scholarly journals Circulation of Capital in Great Expectations

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 71-99
Author(s):  
Borislav Knežević
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
The Creation

The article discusses the theme of acquisition and circulation of capital in Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations. The analysis proceeds from an observation that the novel is not centrally concerned with representing the processes of production of wealth, as it is about the circulation of social and economic capital. The protagonist of the novel entertains a specific notion of social mobility (his great expectations), which he eventually renounces, and develops a common middle-class idea of the centrality of hard work to the accumulation of wealth. However, by examining the construction of the protagonist’s relationship to wealth, as well as the construction of the circulation of wealth in the narrative, the article suggests that the novel questions its declarative ideology by placing a great deal of emphasis on the various ways in which transfers of money enable the creation of social and economic capital for the characters in the novel.

scholarly journals PERSOALAN IDENTITAS SOSIAL TOKOH LAKI-LAKI DALAM NOVEL PERSIDEN KARYA WISRAN HADI

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yustity Ayu Novelly ◽  
Samsiarni Samsiarni ◽  
Emil Septia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Identity Problems ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research is based on the background to find out what things that affect the social identity problems which faced by Minangkabau male personage in the novel Persiden which created by Wisran Hadi. This research focused on the issue of male social identity in the novel Persiden. The aimed of this research are, to describe the (1)  misidentification; (2) social comparison, and (3) social mobility of male personage in the novel Persiden. The type of the research is qualitative research. The method which be used in this research is descriptive method. The results of this study indicated that there are 3 issues of social identity experienced by male personage in the Persiden novel. In accordance based on theories of the social identity which stated by Hogg and Abraham, there were (1) misidentification, which was experienced by 4 people of Mamak Rumah Bagonjong; those who feel the position of mamak in their people are worthless, (2) social comparison, which was experienced by 4 mamak Rumah Bagonjong and sumando who did not carry out their position according to the functions; from the issues that was so complicated for people of Rumah Bagonjong who experienced by these men, makes the creation of a series of comparisons of the issues which faced with what should happen,  and (3) social mobility, experienced by 4 people of mamak Rumah bagonjong; from the issue that befall their people, they make changes and movements to get a solution to the problems they were facing.   

scholarly journals Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Critique

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Avinash L. Pandhare
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Small City ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Middle Class Family ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Clear Objective

In Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, her debut novel, Kiran Desai has experimented in the making of a comic fable.  She presents a hilarious story of life, love, and family relationships - simultaneously capturing the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience.  The story is set in a small Indian but fictitious town called Shahkot.  Sampath is the protagonist who belongs to a middle class family.  After experiencing drastic boredom in his life, Sampath decides to spend his life in trees.  And then after, the story reveals its real mood.  At a deeper level, the novel displays the theme of alienation, magic realism, rebellion, etc.  Desai is a masterful dialogue writer, and she uses this skill to great effect in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.  She infuses the dialogue with local idioms and paints a vivid portrait of life in a small city in India.  With a clear objective of writing a comic satire, she also makes a satirical attack against the creation of gurus in Indian society.

The Right to Dream: Gender, Modernity, and the Problem of Class in Kate O'Brien's Bourgeois Bildungsromane

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Naoise Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aristocratic Culture ◽  
Modern Form

Feminist critics have celebrated Kate O'Brien's pioneering approach to gender and sexuality, yet there has been little exploration of her innovations of the coming-of-age narrative. Creating a modern Irish reworking of the Bildungsroman, O'Brien's heroines represent an idealized model of female identity-formation which stands in sharp contrast to the nationalist state's vision of Irish womanhood. Using Franco Moretti's theory of the Bildungsroman, a framing of the genre as a thoroughly ‘modern’ form of the novel, this article applies a critical Marxist lens to O'Brien's output. This reading brings to light the ways in which the limitations of the Bildungsroman work to constrain O'Brien's subversive politics. Their middle-class status remains an integral part of the identity of her heroines, informing the forms of liberation they seek. Fundamentally, O'Brien's idealization of aristocratic culture, elitist exceptionalism and ‘detachment of spirit’ restricts the emancipatory potential of her vision of Irish womanhood.

ARTISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN THE WORKS OF SHUHRAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-204
Author(s):  
Nodira Soatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hard Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Interpretation

This article is devoted to the study of the artistic interpretation of the image of the Mother in the works of Shuhrat. The article analyzes and interprets in the poet's powerful poems the image of a woman as a symbol of love, and hard work, Lola tergan qiz”, “Umr yoldoshimga”, “Yor ketib”, “Senin sevging”, “Yorin savoli”,“Sevibqolsang”, “Kushni kiz”, “Ikhtiyorim kulinda”, “Sevgi iztirobi”, “Sevging kuzingda” , “Ilk sevgining yarasi”, “Sevgimda yon deysan”, “Sevgimga ishonsang bas”, “Senga ataganim”. Also a loving mother, and in the novel "Golden Stainless" as a humble woman Jannat, mother Adolat a faithful wife Aziza

Class in Thatcherite Ideology and Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Classless Society ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter examines Thatcherite rhetoric about class and individualism. Thatcher needed to distance herself from her own, narrow, upper-middle-class image; she also wanted to rid politics of class language, and thought that class was—or should be—irrelevant in 1980s Britain because of ‘embourgeoisement’. For Thatcher, ‘bourgeois’ was defined by particular values (thrift, hard work, self-reliance) and she wanted to use the free market to incentivize more of the population to display these values, which she thought would lead to a moral and also a prosperous society. Thatcherite individualism rested on the assumption that people were rational, self-interested, but also embedded in families and communities. The chapter reflects on what these conclusions tell us about ‘Thatcherism’ as a political ideology, and how these beliefs influenced Thatcherite policy on the welfare state, monetarism, and trade unionism. Finally, it examines Major’s rhetoric of the ‘classless society’ in the 1990s.

Agnes Grey

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Brontë ◽  
Sally Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Anne Bronte ◽  
Agnes Grey

‘How delightful it would be to be a governess!’ When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember ‘myself at their age’ to win her pupils’ love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she has to deal with completely unmanageable. They are, as she observes to her mother, ‘unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures’. In writing her first novel, Anne Brontë drew on her own experiences, and one can trace in the work many of the trials of the Victorian governess, often stranded far from home, and treated with little respect by her employers, yet expected to control and educate her young charges. Agnes Grey looks at childhood from nursery to adolescence, and it also charts the frustrations of romantic love, as Agnes starts to nurse warmer feelings towards the local curate, Mr Weston. The novel combines astute dissection of middle-class social behaviour and class attitudes with a wonderful study of Victorian responses to young children which has parallels with debates about education that continue to this day.

North and South

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Sally Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Middle Class Woman ◽  
Class Woman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
North And South ◽  
Obedience To Authority

`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

scholarly journals CYCLICAL HISTORY IN THE GAMBIA/CASAMANCE BORDERLANDS: REFUGE, SETTLEMENT AND ISLAM FROM c. 1880 TO THE PRESENT

2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL NUGENT
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
The Creation

ABSTRACTThis article begins with a quotation from a local informant highlighting a perception in the Gambia/Casamance borderlands that there is a pattern linking the violence of the later nineteenth century with more recent troubles. It argues that there is some merit in this thesis, which is encapsulated in a concatenation of events: systematic raiding by Fodé Sylla led to the creation of a relatively depopulated colonial border zone which was later filled by Jola immigrants from Buluf to the southeast. In the perception of some, it is these immigrants who attracted the MFDC rebels. Mandinkas and Jolas of Fogny Jabankunda and Narang, and Karoninkas from the islands of Karone have therefore been largely unreceptive to appeals to Casamance nationalism. The article also argues that there are more twisted historical connections. Whereas in the later nineteenth century, the Jolas associated Islam with violent enslavement, they later converted en masse. Their attitude towards Fodé Sylla remained negative, whilst the Mauritanian marabout, Cheikh Mahfoudz, was credited with the introduction of a pacific form of Islam that valorized hard work and legitimated physical migration. This legacy has posed a further barrier to militant nationalism. Islam and violence remain linked, but the signs have been reversed.

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