Why is love between people of different social classes evil? On the example of the Jack London’s novel Martin Eden
- Authors: Karpets А.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
- Issue: Vol 34, No 4 (2024)
- Pages: 56-67
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-5377/article/view/290429
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/0869-5377-2024-4-56-66
- ID: 290429
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Abstract
The wisdom of classical literature is eternal, which we cannot always say about the love connection between two hearts. At first glance, the Jack London’s novel Martin Eden is a familiar story about the inner strength of a man who is ready to do anything to achieve his goal and how this naive dream breaks into reality. This is a story of unhappy love between a girl from the highest society and an ordinary sailor. I propose to look at this novel from the point of view of the sociology of power and inequality in order to show how our social environment affects us and how the values instilled by society control our views and desires against the will and power of love.
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А. Karpets
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
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Email: annakarpecc@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow
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