prejudice against someone of a different social class theme
Class prejudice is featured in general terms, or demonstrated by the appearance of a character that expresses a prejudice against a group of people whom they regard to have a different social or economic status than themself.
12 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| novel: A Passage to India (1924) | choice | The British, and perhaps more the British-Indians, often acted superior to the Indians and some Indians in turn seemed to accept this as natural. |
| bridesheadrevisited1981e1x07 | major | Charles and his volunteering upper-middle to upper-class compatriots relished the opportunity to bludgeon some striking lower class workers over their noggins with makeshift batons and other blunt instruments. What they had not reckoned on was having to dodge just so many rotten cabbages, alas. |
| ds97x07 | major | Kor rose to prominence in Klingon society in large part because of his family name. Martok, by contrast, a man of common origins had to struggle against many prejudices in order to advance. |
| movie: My Fair Lady (1964) | major | Henry Higgins repeatedly dismissed and patronized the poor flower girl Eliza Doolittle, treating her as an object to be shaped and controlled rather than as an equal deserving of respect and autonomy. For example, he treated her much as a child or even animal by offering her chocolates in exchange for doing as he instructed. |
| movie: Seven Samurai (1954) | major | Both peasants and warriors held prejudices against the opposite class. |
| movie: Stagecoach (1939) | major | Doc Boone cited social prejudice as the reason that he was being run out of town. One gathers, however, that the Ladies of the Law and Order League wanted him gone because he was a drunk. The snobbish belle Lucy spent the majority of the trip looking down her nose at Dallas, who was a prostitute. |
| movie: Tom Jones (1963) | major | Among the many class prejudices that were featured, the ones that concern Tom's marriage prospects stood out. As a foundling of supposed lowly origins, Tom was impossible for Squire Western to consider as a son-in-law and the squire was outraged when he found his daughter Sophia was in love with Tom. By contrast, when it was revealed that Tom was, in fact, the nephew of Squire Allworhty and his presumed heir, Squire Western completely changed his tune. Likewise Molly was seen as an impossible match for Tom due to her impoverished origins. |
| movie: Wuthering Heights (1939) | major | Cathy and Heathcliff were unable to fulfill their love for one another owing to the rigid class hierarchy of the time. |
| play: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1598) | major | To quote verbatim from Wikipedia: The play is centered on the class prejudices of middle-class England. The lower class is represented by characters such as Bardolph, Nym, and Pistol (Falstaff's followers), and the upper class is represented by Sir John Falstaff and Master Fenton. |
| theamericanshortstory13 | major | The story explores latent class antagonisms in the American South through the point of view of a disgruntled sharecropper and his fiery relationships with his landlords. Ab explained to Sarty how slaves had built the mansions that Sarty so admired. |