The way cultural and/or ethnic, or class identity plays a role in personal choices.

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23 November 2008

A Room with a View : the Impact of Cultural / Class Perceptions on Personal Choice

Introduction

Have we ever thought of what governs us when we make a choice ? Are we ruled by certain cultural or ethnic perspectives , or do we value our feelings toward the person , who is expected to accompany us through joys and sorrows for the rest of our lives ? Very often , cultural and class perceptions play the predominant role , when we make a romantic choice

In his novel A Room with a View , E .M . Forster ironically depicts the increasing conflict between the real and the pretended and the impact which class and social prejudice may have on what we call true passion . A Room with a View is an ironic depiction of the social narrow-sightedness and the lack of sincere spontaneous response to the feelings , which may change under the pressure of artificial class and cultural views of the conservative society

Literature critics of the post-war period emphasize the growing level of British cultural self-consciousness that has gradually turned into a misrepresented set of class and cultural perceptions . With the post-1945 decline of Britain as an economic , political , and military power , its international standing as well as its own sense of national identity have been increasingly determined on the level of cultural production (Freedman 79 . Forster 's novel suggests that with time this cultural consciousness has transformed into cultural and class prejudices that falsely positioned England...