Social Mobility
Money provides a measure for social class. While Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov suggest money as a gateway to social mobility, Pushkin in The Captain's Daughter suggest that money as hope may also be manipulated to prevent it. Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard finally illuminates this dichotomy: the acquisition of physical money is essential to social mobility.In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky confirms that capital determines social class. In the first part of the book, Fyodor large financial assets allow for his delirious orgies with young women and thus, sustain his high class life. Taking that money would definitely have enabled Dmitri "to take [Grushenka, Fyodor's desire] away" and thus achieve a morale defeating triumph that may result both in Fyodor's bankruptcy and the impossibility of a high class life style (Dostoevsky 820). Through Smerdyakov, the son and servant to Fyodor, Dostoevsky evokes a second idea that money may i
As it was finally possible for someone who had been born into a peasant family to make a great deal of money, it became possible for former serfs like Lophakhin to exploit that money for social mobility. Through Savelich's passion in managing Griniov's finance, Pushkin first suggests servant's general adherence to their lords' money. mply a possible departure from serfdom and consequently an uplift of one's social status. While nothing is spent for his own purpose, Savelich opposes fervently to even to the little detail of reimbursing Pugachev with Griniov's hare-skin coat. In contrast to the mere hope for financial wealth, Chekhov finally displays in his play The Cherry Orchard monetary assets as a necessity for social mobility. When Griniov's turn to be executed comes, Savelich falls at Pugachev's feet, signifying the fear of losing his access to his control over Griniov's money. Secondly, Chekhov confirms social mobility through Lopakhin's dramatic change in class and his purchase of Ranyevskaya's cherry orchard estate. In this post-1861 society, even former servants may reach social mobility through money. Although Smerdyakov's efforts falter because of guilt, Dostoevsky nonetheless reveals the acquisition of capital as an obvious outlet through which servants may achieve social mobility. According to Smerdyakov the serf, three thousand roubles represent "a new life in Moscow" and that acquiring it may even provide a "better [life] abroad" (Dostoevsky 761). Acquiring money from his translations, it was possible for Trophimof to travel to France to continue his study, a historically high class custom impossible for former serfs. Together with Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter, The Cherry Orchard reveals the social mobility does not follow intangible management of money but the physical possession of it. With his financial wealth, Lophakin later purchases his former landlord's estate and adopts Ephikhodof as a servant, epitomizing a successful social class transformation. If Savelich's connection with his lord were broken, his hopes for wealth, a requisite for social mobility, would indeed evaporate. Landowners such as Ranyevskaya were no longer the only ones free to travel in Europe.
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