social inequality theme
The ramifications of social inequality in society are explored.
58 total · 9 choice · 28 major · 21 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ds93x04 | choice | hospital staff were covering up the fact that all Trill had the potential to be implanted with symbionts and not just the few |
| ds93x11 | choice | Gabriel Bell became a martyr for the social inequality movement in America |
| ds93x12 | choice | Gabriel Bell became a martyr for the social inequality movement in America |
| ldr2019e4x07 | choice | A point of the story was to compare and contrast the decadent aristocratic spectators with the gladiators they controlled and used for their own entertainment. One gathers that the gladiators had been taken from subjugated peoples. Mei came from the moon Europa and had had nearly all her memories taken from her. Some remnants remained, which caused her to turn on her oppressors in the end. |
| movie: My Fair Lady (1964) | choice | At the center of the story was the poor working girl Eliza. She was introduced to social circles of the upper-classes, and in the end she passed for a princess. In this and other ways, compared were the destinies of poor working people, like Eliza, with upper-class people, like Professor Higgins. |
| movie: Oliver! (1968) | choice | The story deliberately juxtaposes upper- and lower class people in 19th century London in order to highlight the disparity between them. |
| movie: Parasite (2019) | choice | the story contrasted the rich Park family with the Poor Kim family, and then again with the completely impoverished Moon-gwang and Geun-sae |
| theamericanshortstory15 | choice | The story showcased the abject poverty of a black family in the American South in the 1940s. It was noted that they worked hard in the fields every day yet had barely enough money to take the bus into town to have a bad tooth tended to. Their squalor was contrasted with the comfortable existence of black and white people in the town. |
| tz1985e3x18 | choice | The life of an unemployed man who was living with his family in a homeless shelter was contrasted with that of a wealthy business man who was living in a mansion. |
| blackmirror5x02 | major | We were lead to think that the story had something to do with the contrasting social statuses, but then it turned out to be entirely different. |