Classlessness In Power In Charles Dickens's A Tale Of Two Cities

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In A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens seems to love to demonstrate how rich the rich actually are. One guy even needs four servants to make his hot chocolate every morning in the book. It’s this sort of excess wealth that breeds discontent –especially when the poor are on their hands and knees in the street licking up drops of spilled wine. The French Revolution began as a critique of the aristocracy; as Dickens demonstrates. However, the "classless" formation of the new French Republic becomes yet another form of class violence. Someone’s always in power. And the powerless always suffer. This idea is also illustrated in the poem, The Ballad of the Landlord. Langston Hughes writes about how a man complains to his landlord about issues in the place …show more content…

It is about someone always wanting to be in charge. “I can 't stand this indecision/Married with a lack of vision/Everybody wants to rule the world/Say that you 'll never, never, never, need it/One headline, why believe it? /Everybody wants to rule the world/All for freedom and for pleasure/Nothing ever lasts forever/Everybody wants to rule the world” This song is about warfare and the misery it causes. Tears for Fears showed the dark side of when someone tries to take control. The song F**k the Police is the frustration of blacks all over the world with the state of the law enforcement. This song by N.W.A. shows classism and racism rolled up into an almost 6-minute video. “A young n**ga got it bad cause I 'm brown/And not the other color so police think/ They have the authority to kill a minority” Though it is directly about racism, one must understand the connotation with being black during that time. They were assumed to all belong to unsuccessful welfare families, and that would make them of lower class than those how make more, such as the …show more content…

But it is a more modern version by Kanye West. “I know that we the new slaves/I see the blood on the leaves/They throwing hate at me/Want me to stay at ease/F**k you and your corporation/Y 'all n**gas can 't control me” The corporations that he speaks of would be an example of a high class person because they are simply trying to make money off of those who buy from them. The song Short People is a widely misinterpreted song about people with small minds. Those types of people always think of themselves as above others Randy Newman illustrates. “They got little hands/And little eyes/And they walk around/Tellin ' great big lies/They got little noses/And tiny little teeth/They wear platform shoes/On their nasty little feet” Them wearing platform shoes as to be above the others and little eyes to avoid seeing the truth. This song shows just another example of the classism that people often don’t

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