Critics Flashcards
(23 cards)
aristocracy
the highest class in certain societies, typically compromising of people of noble birth holding hereditary titles
bourgeois
belonging to, or characteristic of, the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
proletaiat
working class people regarded collectively
social class
a division of society based on social and economic status
conspicuois consumption
buing things to show off
commodification
valuing things for their power to impress
nouveau riche
newly wealthy and tacky
marxism
doesn’t want classes, capitalism
patriarchy
contolled by men
‘fitzgerald portrays america as female, where as, the dreamers are male
fetterly
how does fitzgerald describe america
‘west egg’ and ‘east egg’ and ‘green breast’
comparing the american dream to hollywood film makers
‘manufactured optimism’
tocqueville
americans are ‘forever brooding over advantages they do not possess’, americans are restless and never satisfied
there are two ways to succeed: ‘one way is by doing very good work, the other way is by cheating’
chesterton
bruccoli
‘TGG is not politically correct’
‘a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance’ - the characters found in american lit
faulkner
‘Americans are restless…
In pursuit of their dream’
Psychoanalytical theory about TGOW migrants
The id, forced to be their primal selves, if they don’t they die, survival of the fittest
Who said this ‘ma went from being a typical housewife into a leader’
Nicole persens
Who said ‘ma joad has a strong importance in the family’
Diase
mark twain
‘failure is not the dark side of the american dream, it is the foundation of it’
gatsby creates a (by morgan)
‘vacuum of perpetual loneliness’ while in pursuit of his dream
‘man will not merely endure: he will prevail’
faulkner
