Bennet's urge desire to know Mr. ... Bennet hardly knows anything about Mr. ... She does not concern about Bingley's personality at all. ... Bennet suggests us how we are often judge by our social statue before people really get to know us. ... When Lady Catherine asks Elizabeth to avoid the engagement with Darcy because of her belonging to the low social class would disgrace Darcy's social prestige if those two marry "Do you not consider that a connection with you, must disgrace him in the eye of everybody?" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Candide's mother was not able to consider marrying a man because of love, but instead, she was forced to base her decisions on money matters and social standing. ... If there were no aristocratic system of government in Candide there would have been less awful deaths and the world would have seemed more peaceful, things would be more, as they should be. ... "You absolute ass, I rescued you from the galleys; I have paid for your freedom...." "You will never marry my sister while I am alive." Candide knows it shouldn't matter what social class you come from, you should be allowed ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dialogue employed between Emma in "If I were to marry, I must expect to repent it so" and Harriet Smith's surprised tone "it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!... " as she is pursuing a man of her choice. ... Cher's voiceover in "whenever a boy comes, you should always have something baking" and "don't sell yourself short now", ironically describes the domestic and objectified figure ascribed to women in the 18th Century. ... Diegetic sounds created by the horns in the freeway scene and Dionne's panicked tone in "What do I do Mur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

So the way they spoke to them was maybe how one would speak to an animal. ... He backs up the theory that money cannot buy you happiness, as now he has been forced to conform to society's rules, such as marrying his mistress. ... Nobody wants to know him for who he is, only for his money, so his life is turning into a web of falseness, lies and deceit all powered by greed, formerly known as a middle class lifestyle. ... 'Oh if only I could go back to my flower basket! I should be independent of both you and father and all the world! ...

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This is because Desdemona is risking losing her culture and reputation as a white Venetian of middle-to-upper class, and to marry a black Moorish general who is not a land-owner. ... Roderigo paid Iago to assist him to win Desdemona's heart "thou, Iago, who hast had my purse/As if the strings were thine- [1.1.2-3] in which case we as a contemporary audience must ask ourselves, can love be merely purchased with gold and silver? Does money guarantee the power to own anything of one's heart's desires? ... The Duke also has the privilege and the right to define and judge Othello...

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• Grade Level: High School

"If she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that." ... ", "Is it important for everyone to know it?... Rochester, "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!... And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you....

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Vivian though, we know, is not wealthy. ... This argument is further strengthened by his conversation with Vivian when she tells him "Baby, I"m gonna treat you so good, you"ll never let me go". ... She tells him "you"re not my pimp . ... I say who, I say when". ... Despite her awareness of her inferior social status, she pertly reminds Higgins that if he were a gentleman he would ask her to sit down during their first meeting. ...

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