A Room with a View
In “A Room with a View”, the British social class system is depicted as both unreasonable and prejudiced. The issue of division in Britain has always been that of a subjective approach, classifying people by categories. Only recently have these barriers slowly begun to lower. However, even though England has begun to modernize its viewpoint, the distinction between the classes still remains.The story of George Emerson and Lucy Honeychurch is not unlike that of your legendary “Romeo and Juliet”, . . .
Though Britain’s objective class differences have slowly begun to level, their solidarity tends to hold them back from truly being able to shed their snobbish image. both are neither understood or supported for their irrational love affair between the two houses, or in this case classes. Yet until Britain allows the “large and often invidious distinctions between and by social classes” to improve, the division and the pretentiousness between the upper and lower classes will exist. In order to change the world you must first change yourself and only then will life improve for all. Therefore, it is only realistic to believe that they will never be socially accepted. It is still common nonetheless, that the only path to stability, position, and power lies in that of the elites educated in the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. . Because of these biased views, Britain has suffered in both politics and education. They both feel that it could never work as long as people see them as Capulet and Montague, upper and middle class. “Britain is perhaps the only industrialized country where the political are drawn so heavily from just two universities (pg. Times are still continuing to change in Great Britain and there is hope for further development between the sects as to equality.
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