How have Fitzgerald and Austen presented the Dynamics of Social Class in their novels?
Elizabeth Bennet
Contrastingly, Pride and Prejudice ends with the obligatory "marrying everyone up with a million pounds". The protagonists are able to overcome the adversity of social class and find happiness.
Pride and Prejudice
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Mr Darcy
The superficiality associated with high class
In The Great Gatsby however, Fitzgerald suggests that the lower class can never rise above their place and find happiness. He suggests, that if they attempt this they will merely be put back in their place.
Relationships restricted by difference in Class
A point of interest:Both writers use alliteration in their titles for emphasis. Austen to emphasise the theme's of her novel. While Fitzgerald uses it to emphasise the his narrators view of man who tries to rise above his class.
Daisy Buchanan
Members of the Upper echelon
The Great Gatsby
Extensively explores the discrimination between social classes in the context of the 1920's
Fitxgerald suggests that people can never truly escape their social class and that lower class people cannot hope to compete with the upper class in spite of the American Dream
