The characters are determined by their financial position and judged accordingly. ... May Sinclair seems critical of the class structures that invade the personal relations between her characters. ... Patriarchal authority and expression is extremely relevant to the characters, as Harriett's mother within the text does not have a forename. ... Robin works in a bank and aims to further his position up the materialist and economic system and only when that has happened does he consider himself viable to undergo a measure such as marriage. ...

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Although heralded by its creators as the final measure needed to resolve the reform question that had, to varying degrees, plagued Parliament since the mid-eighteenth century, the 1832 Reform Act was just the beginning of parliamentary reform in the nineteenth century. ... In the 1840s and 1850s, Whigs justified the middle-class vote not on the basis of wealth, but on their character. ...

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The working class can achieve political power by using the political organizations to achieve its goals without having to go to drastic measures such as a general strike which is what Marx theorized would happen. ... Bernstein contended that "the middle classes [have changed] their character but they do not disappear from the social scale" because while the amount of large capitalists has decreased, the amount of capitalists has increased (Bernstein). ...

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Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression is learnt (as Bandura found out), but also that the observation of symbols and objects are memorised by young children, and at a later time period these memories are put into place and used again; 'for example, a child may learn to shoot a gun by imitating television characters. ...

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Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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