Posted by Jock on September 05, 2006 at 15:22:03 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Emma Holt (Was Matrix posted by Owen Roberts on September 05, 2006 at 14:55:14:
I find it difficult when trying to imagine the 1930's without
involving class. Perhaps that just shows how indoctinated I am
by what I have read and also what I have heard from my parents.
I think that the further back you go the more obvious and the more
important the class barriers. The plot of L.P. Hartley's "The Go
Between" only makes sense in a very class conscious England, but
that story does take place before WW I.
I don't think that to use the word "class" you must subscribe to
a Marxist analysis of society. The implication that this is
necessarily so is perhaps what makes Peter so cross about the use
of the word.
cross about the use of the word.