Madame Bovary In every society there is a middle class. They don’t have the luxuries that the elite few have, but they are far from living on the streets. They are stuck in the middle. Now, maybe it’s a case of Jan Brady syndrome, but very often, the middle class would like to be at the top. You get to have an exciting, romantic life, much like that of ... well ... Marcia. There has …showed first 75 words of 1954 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1954 total…fantasy world, created by Romanticism had a large influence on the bourgeois class. It created desires to be at the top, to live differently, and to be exciting. But in most societies, there must be a middle class, which will always seem rather dull. They can’t all be exciting and different, because then they would essentially all be the same once again. So the middle class is basically stuck being...well...the middle class.