THE
ADVANTAGE OF BEING RICH
“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a
charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of
the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have
a permanent income than to be fascinating.”
The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
Why the world is
divided in social classes when everybody has the same rights? The tale talks
about a man called Hughie Erskine, he was unemployed and was in love with a
beautiful girl the problem was that for marry she he have to got ten thousand
pounds, one day he met with an old friend called Alan Trevor, he was painting a
beggar-man, Hughie feel pity for the model of the painting and gave him
sovereign, later he discovered that the beggar-man was one of the richest men
in London, finally the rich man help Hughie to marry the beautiful girl and they
lived happily ever after, with this tale I get the next hypothesis, since long
time ago the society establish that the people with money control the world,
and the poor people are despised, the social classes exist because the ones
that are rich feel scared of the real power that have the poor people.
Since my point
of view I think that this tale show as the reality, nowadays the people just
thing in their benefit not of the others, with this we only get that the world
continue in that road of darkness and selfish, I love this tale because is a
funny story that give us hope, for example the rich man show that there are
people that make the difference, the author use easy words and the story have
coherence this make that the readers understand the context of the text, also I
like that the principal character is in love with someone, this make me think
that there are people that continue loving and fighting for that special person
not like in the XXI century that they just feel lust.
“Poor old wretch! I wish I could do something for him.
I think it is dreadful that any one should be so miserable” The Model
Millionaire by Oscar Wilde
Taking into
account this quote we can related it with the pity of the rich men when they
saw a poor person, also we can say that for them it is easy to talk about money
or the opportunities that give us the life, the real problem is that they don’t
know about all the efforts that poor people do for having something to eat or
just for survive, the culture makes that people thing that money is the synonymous
of happiness when this is not true, maybe the rich men just work each hour of
the day for have material things but they never appreciated the little things
of life, the society and the culture created among the time the idea that the
best way for organizing a civilization was with the social classes, but they
forget the damage that this brings.
In Colombia
nowadays and in the ancient times the social classes always exist, one of the
big problems of our country is that many people have different ideas for change
the situation in which we are but all is a business, maybe one day people
understand that not because they have big houses and beautiful cars they are
better than a poor person, in the tale they teach us that the good actions are
rewarded, that the social classes just bring ruin and evil desires.
In conclusion we
can say that the tale hide a whole social context in that funny story, the author
created a beautiful text that let us think and analyze all the bad things that
have the world and the society in which we live, also that the social classes
is just something stipulated that brings destruction, the tale give us hope
because we can say that nowadays there are people like the rich men that help Hughie
Erskine.
Bibliography
https://americanliterature.com/author/oscar-wilde/short-story/the-selfish-giant
https://americanliterature.com/author/rudyard-kipling/short-story/rikki-tikki-tavi
