Daldry, 2000)material consumerist concerns such as trainers are low on the main patriarchal characters list of priorities and The Full Monty is centered on five men who do something extraordinary in order to gain the means to simply live. ... Firstly it means that many characters in the north will be deprived of many material effects and objects and live just above or below the poverty line. ... In addition it means that the characters will have to deal with events and issues that the viewer can feel an empathy with, for example Saturday night and Sunday Morning (dir. ... This is again follo...

• Word Count: 1922
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However, according to Marx and Engels, "the working men have no country" because "we cannot take from them what they have not got.... By "working men," Marx and Engels are referring to the proletariat, or the "wage-earners.... While most people probably view the typical working class as an important part of society, in the world that Marx and Engels describe, the working men are essentially a nuisance. ... Only when "class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, will the ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate