A theme in the book/film "A room with a view", is the social class organization. It isn't a main theme though, but it causes some problems. Just like in any society. So, in the story you can see how inside that society, each class is designated by how much money they have, and their ethnicity. Of course there's also the religion part.
Any ways, in every single society there's a social structure, so in every single story you read, tell, see and/or experience, you will see that the social structure is part of the setting itself so it will affect the story in some way. For example, in the story, the classes are seperated by the money they have. The rich undermine the hard working, there's the mind liberated that are looked down upon by the religious. A difficult one to understand sometimes is the tourists, they can be either high or low, but I believe that in the story they were looked down upon.
Anyways, social structures are different depending on the geography, the history, the culture and the politics. The amount of value a person gives it determines how much it will affect the story, though in my society, Puerto Rico, it is not about looking down upon one another, its just that the medium class is the worker class and lives out of its money, the rich lives out of the medium, the goverment lives out of everyone and the poor is maintained by the goverment. Also, here there's no descrimination coming from the top, it comes from those under, because everyone wants to have success in their lives.
To conclude, social structures create part of the setting and the story at hand. It has always been and will always be a present theme, because humans are based around those thoughts as of now.
Regards. I can totally understand what you said about social structure in Puerto Rico and I can identify myself with it. What I really couldn't see much is how you can relate that with the story in A Room With a View. Have a nice day!
ResponderEliminarI understand that you are comparing the social structures in two different places in two different decades, since it's important to see that, even though it's a small world, there's different types of society and there are a lot of things we cannot relate too.
ResponderEliminarI see that you tried to compare this to Puerto Rico. I find that hard since like Nico said, we are talking about two different times and places. Anyway, nice post.
ResponderEliminarHello Angel! I understand the reason behind you trying to compare the actual movie social structure to that of Puerto Rico, but I also agree with the previous comments on the fact that we have completely separate standings now a days.
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The social structure in different places start with money and ethnicity, as you say. It is also tied with education, in my opinion. For many, education is key in developing a society, as people who are uneducated can easily be manipulated. In the movie adaptation, we can see how Cecil Vyse is of a higher class because he carries a book most of the time, unlike Mr. Emmerson.
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