What is some good literature in which social mobility is a theme?
What is some good literature in which social mobility is a theme?
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Or poetry too, of course. That'd be interesting!
Fitzgerald, not just Gatsby, is pretty good for this.
Oh yeah, why did I not think of this? It's a great example! What is the morale in that regard, would you say?
Atlas Shrugged
Vanity Fair.
>What is the morale in that regard
Wealth and material goods are superficial and do not (directly) contribute to human happiness
I just wanted to come by and say that this is the worst thing in architecture since modernism.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Trust me lad this is the exact book you're looking for
That doesn't really cover social mobility in a realistic way, it's mainly a book about revenge and the effect of grudges
Dead Souls is technically about social mobility
It's absolute shit. Must be in America or Australia, I could bet
Dead Souls
Definitely not my diary desu
True in that it's not exactly realistic but social mobility is still a major theme.
Demon's Souls > Dead Souls > Bloodborne >>>>>> Dark Souls
adventures of augie march by saul bellow
A central theme in Proust and much of Balzac.
Netherlands actually, sadly enough
nickels to ounces
Great Expectations
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Maupassant - Bel Ami
Essentially about a neet veteran who's a terrible human being but very attractive who uses rich bourgeoises Women as rungs to climb the social ladder.
this
came here to post this. grab a copy of gatsby, you can read it in a day
Red and Black by Stendhal
>Dead Souls
Never read it, but it's on my to-read list. How is social mobility a theme in it?
The entire plot is mocking the hierarchical social structure of aristocratic Russia by having the main character ascend in social status by buying the names of serfs that have died from local aristocrats. This makes it look, on paper, as though he is incredibly wealthy despite the fact that he neither needs land nor food for his "estate".
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As a Dutch architect I want to apologize for this gigantic fuckup monstrosity.
Underrated kek
99% of all Hiphop started from the bottom now we're her desu
You guys have terrible taste, Id love to come across something like this. You still have millions of other buildings to look at that don't have them
Seconding these. 19th century lit is full of arrivistes.