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.
10 total · 1 choice · 8 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: 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: 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. |
| tos3x02 | major | The Elasians expected everyone else to show their royalty the same respect they did. They were mighty offended when Kirk would not up with it put and threatened to put the petulent princess over his knee. |
| tftc1989e7x11 | minor | Jack speculated that Warhol was "dealing with class issues" in response to some remarks Warhol made about "no talent film school brats who are born and raised with a silver spoon up their ass". |