Social mobility in selected literary works

Other Title(s)

الحراك الاجتماعي في أعمال أدبية مختارة

Dissertant

Abu Tayr, Asma Awni Abd al-Ghani

Thesis advisor

Usfur, Muhammad

University

Philadelphia University

Faculty

Faculty of Arts

Department

Department of English Language and Literature

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2017

English Abstract

This thesis deals with different cases of upward social mobility in selected English and American literary works.

It is an attempt to analyze and study the concept of upward social mobility as a social phenomenon that is a recurrent theme in literature.

This is done by scrutinizing different upstart characters in the selected works, and by shedding light on their experience in their new environment.

The main aim of this study is to refute the possibility of upward social mobility, and to show the extreme difficulty the upstarts face when they seem to rise in the world.

This study attempts to prove that upward social mobility is in its core sense a change that doesn’t exceed appearances.

The study pursues an analytical approach in exploring the theme of upward mobility in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, F.

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Arms and the Man.

Main Subjects

Languages & Comparative Literature

No. of Pages

76

Table of Contents

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-956235