Lady Windermere's Fan is a play about a woman who suspects her husband is having an affair with another women. Throughout the acts in Lady Windermere’s Fan there are many examples in which gossip and status take place. Gossip is when people have an unconstrained conversation about other people. Status is someone or something’s societal standing. Gossip can cause people’s opinions of other people to change, whether the gossip is true or not. This is present and seen within the play. In Lady Windermere’s Fan the role of gossip transforms Lady Windermere’s loyalty to her husband into misplaced revenge. As the play goes on, there are various ways that gossip and status are used throughout the acts. To begin the first act the Duchess of Berwick tells Lady Windermere that her husband has had an affair. “ ‘Lady Windermere finds proof of the affair in Lord Windermere's checkbook’ ”(10). Their relationship is instantly impacted due to the false gossip about the relationship between Lord Windermere and Mrs.Erlynne. From there Lady Windermere confronts him about the supposed …show more content…
Lord Windermere invites Mrs.Erlynne to the party. Lady Windermere forbids her from coming to their party based on the judgements of her and a lot of other people. Due to Mrs.Erlynne’s supposed bad reputation she is considered to be in the lower class, and that was another reason she was not wanted there. “ ‘There is not a good woman in London who would not applaud me… If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it’ ”(13). This is a quote of Lady Windermere talking bad about the lower class. Just because you are in the upper class does not mean you can just look down or be rude to the lower class. All of this negativeness was originally generated by the false gossip, which got turned into a judgement in someone’s
Rumors can break and humiliate people’s lives. A good example of this would be when Don John was passing rumors to corrupt Claudio’s and Hero’s relationship. Don John brings out that Hero is disloyal to Don Pedro and Claudio so they would be tricked by a false statement and insult Hero in many...
Both Newland and Winterbourne are rich, proud men who have been involved in affairs. But yet, we perceive them both in a positive light. We see Winterbourne as a man carried along for an exciting journey through his affection for Daisy, and Archer as the finest gentlemen torn between two women. The attitude that is allowed by the authors suggests that men are permitted affairs, while women require the protection of the men that might betray them. High society, at the time, was polite, charming, and secret. No one spoke ill of another publicly, though each and every member of society was allowed, and seemingly encouraged, to make their own assumptions.
During her entire rule, Elizabeth I allowed for England to reach an equilibrium in its religious affairs through “The Elizabethan Settlement”, or her religious compromise. The Book of Common Prayer, issued by the Edward VI’s advisor Thomas Cranmer, was restored by Elizabeth....
Using her sexuality and vulgar mien, she becomes false for abandoning and dismissing her own social foundation, and like Nick, we as readers are repulsed by her grotesque approach to entering the rich class. At one point, and quite humorously to the knowing onlooker, Myrtle complains about a service done for her that was so expensive that "when she gave [Myrtle] the bill you’d of thought she had [her] appendicitus out" (35). Obviously misusing her wording, it is comical only because she is trying so hard to fit into the snobbish upper class persona, and failing miserably. Her rudeness becomes more apparent when she "rejected the compliment [about her dress] by raising her eyebrow in disdain" (35). She is so false in her manner that Nick observes that she "had changed her costume.and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress" (35).
Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina focuses on an unnamed woman who seduces Beauplaisir several times, using stratagems that on first glance consist of wearing disguises and taking on a new identity. I argue that each of the heroine’s stratagems go beyond simply allowing her to pretend to be something other than she is by giving her agency when it comes to romance and letting her pursue her sexual desires in a time where honor means everything. However, her stratagems are so successful in playing on the perceptions and desires of Beuaplaisir because they appear to give this control to Beauplaisir, making him seem the ‘mastermind’ romancer of ‘many’ women. In her first disguise as Fantomina, the unnamed heroine is less guarded than future disguises-
Over a long period of time, an individual’s social status has always had a great impact on relationships between others. Relationships such as friendship, romance and even family relationships are greatly influenced by one’s social status. When people value social status to the utmost importance, it often acts as a barrier to further solidify relations with others. “Wuthering Heights” is a classic novel written by Emily Bronte which illustrates how social status gets in the way of relationships. This story (set in eighteen hundreds) displays the true nature of the people at that time because they excessive had pride. Since they had excessive pride, they often judged people based on their social class; hence changing their relationship between each other. In this novel social class was measured by observing an individual’s wealth, appearance and manners. Heathcliff happens to be the male lead character of this story that lacks social class due to his rebellious relationship with Hindley. Afterwards, Hindley degrades Heathcliff’s status this affects his connections with Catherine and Nelly. Since Heathcliff’s status diminishes, Catherine becomes reluctant to continue her affair with Heathcliff. Nelly also becomes wary of Heathcliff because his personality changes after restoring his own status. Thus, it is clearly seen that social class has an impact on the story by altering Heathcliff’s relationship between Hindley, Catherine and Nelly.
The 19th century changed people’s perspectives on theater. Theaters grew in size, plays became more professional, and costumes became more extravagant. Theater in the 19th century was influenced by the advanced changes, technology and society. Theater had a big impact on how people viewed things.
She is asked to serve at a dinner party for a group of privileged whites, that appear happy to play their role, engaging in “high intellectual discourse” about literature they did not understand or even read, drinking out of the finest Baccarat crystal, and
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Elizabeth Catlett is widely known for her politically charged print and sculptural work during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Catlett is both a sculptor and printmaker and was born in Washington D.C in 1915. She obtained an undergraduate degree in design, printmaking, and drawing at Howard University followed by a Master’s degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa in 1940. Catlett studied sculpture and painting along with Grant Wood; upon graduating she became the first student to receive a degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa. After leaving Iowa, Catlett moved to New Orleans and became chair of the Art Department at Dillard University in 1940. Then she continues her postgraduate studies in ceramics at the University of Chicago in 1941. By 1944, she had married and relocated to Harlem where she taught dressmaking and sculpture. In 1945, Catlett applied for and received the Julius Rosenwald Foundation Grant. After her successful completion of a series of prints paintings and sculptures, she was able to renew this grant, which allowed her to continue her work in Mexico City. While in Mexico City, she continued her studies in painting, sculpture, and lithography and eventually worked with the People’s Graphic Arts Workshop; which was a group of printmakers who created art to promote social change. Eventually she settled in Mexico as a permanent resident where she taught sculpture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City until she retired in 1975.
The physical and social setting in "Mrs. Dalloway" sets the mood for the novel's principal theme: the theme of social oppression. Social oppression was shown in two ways: the oppression of women as English society returned to its traditional norms and customs after the war, and the oppression of the hard realities of life, "concealing" these realities with the elegance of English society. This paper discusses the purpose of the city in mirroring the theme of social oppression, focusing on issues of gender oppression, particularly against women, and the oppression of poverty and class discrimination between London's peasants and the elite class.
... their positions and their stand in society. Material privileges and money distinguish the upper class people from the harder working lower class, and with this we can see how morals play an important role in their life. Arrogance and vanity control the lives of those with all the money, and modesty and inner happiness is what lower class people strive for. In Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier is able to glorify a phenomenon that takes the main character life from the bottom of the sea to a cruise ship sailing the seven seas. The narrator goes through the different social classes but keeps her own mind and morals; she is not over taken by all the riches and material privileges that come with such a life, but on the contrary, she remains true to her self and makes sure that the only thing that matters is the she and Maxim De Winter share and carry on with their lives.
In William Wycherley’s The Country Wife, William Wycherley enlightens the audience to capture several different ironical statements and questionable behaviors. The play fits perfectly into Greenwald’s definition of a comedy of manners: “[Critics] assert that a comedy of manners and the people who inhabit it represent the ostentatiously idle upper-class” (“Social Heirarchy” web). Wycherley also distinguishes several oddities in his characters not typically used to describe the upper-class. For example, Mr. Pinchwife, a wealthy newlywed husband, is so afraid that he is going to become a cuckold, that he does not allow his wife to leave the house (Wycherley act two). One of Wycherley’s goals in writing The Country Wife is to point out the flaws of society (“Q & A” web). Wycherley understands that no one is perfect and that a person’s virtues can be altered if pressures and outside influences become prominent. This is precisely how Wycherley uses Mrs. Margery Pinchwife’s character. Mrs. Pinchwife, a virtuous woman, still succumbs to the immorality of the city of London. Wycherley develops characters who precisely bring out Mrs. Pinchwife’s flaws. Mrs. Pinchwife takes the risks of public shame and a damage reputation to have an affair with Mr. Horner.
One of Wickham’s many unpleasant attributes is his deceitfulness. Once he sees that Elizabeth has been captured by h...
During the 19th Century, first impressions were very important. The reader is presented with Meryton, a highly structured class society which judges people on superficial qualities, such as physical appearance, social status, clothes, possessions, behaviour, dialogue. The message Austen positions the reader to understand, is that a society which makes its judgements based on first impressions is immoral and unjust. (-She uses ‘humour’ to help convey this in a less-serious tone.)