How is wealth is being treated?
In pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy is the richest gentlemen. His wealth came from generations family money and investments. He does not physically work for a living nor is he a businessman or a farmer. "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsome than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend. "(Austen 3). This is basically explaining that money might matter but it doesn't matter enough in Meryton, to make people overlook Darcy's major personality defects. "Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennet's were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honor of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world." (Austen 5)
Here's one example of a man who made money in business: Sir William Lucas. Apparently, his social rise went something like this: acquired fortune, became mayor, addressed the king, received a knighthood, then decided he was too good to keep making money. The lady's in pride and prejudice try to get married for the money but also for them to live a happy life and not be living the early nineteenth-century equivalent of the streets.
Wealth can kill you inside and outside. In the Great Gatsby he spends his money, or should I say played with his money. He would throw parties every weekend and would spend tons of his money so everybody can be impressed. "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon, I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. (Fitzgerald 3). All that wealth can't fill the hole in Gatsby's heat. Wealth is the main theme in "The Great Gatsby" sometimes, the more money you have the lonelier you get. Wealth will not buy you happiness and will not bring you happiness. The author tries to make us believe that Gatsby loved Daisy and he worked hard for her when he really didn't. you will notice at the end that Gatsby was not really after Daisy and he was really after the money. I can't win. Prim must know that in her heart. The competition will be far beyond my abilities. Kids from wealthier districts, where winning is a huge honor, who've been trained their whole lives for this. Boys who are two to three times my size. Girls who know twenty different ways to kill you with a knife. Oh, there'll be people like me, too. People to weed out before the real fun begins (Fitzgerald 3). After all, we are finally realizing, the Hunger Games favor the rich: those who can afford the time and training it takes to compete. The Career Tributes (those who have been preparing for the Games all their lives) are therefore at an incredible advantage.
One of the most widespread themes in the Hunger Games is existence and keeping your sympathy and gravity as you try to live. Katniss and Peeta must survive but also, they have to try through the directs of course for their lives. The main conflict in The Hunger Games is Man vs. Society. "Katniss, who is picked to fight in The Hunger Games wants to survive not because it is expected of her, in society, but because she values her own life and wants to live and protect her family and friends. "(Collins 20. At first, the main conflict of the book is her survival in the games itself. As she represents her district, she has to survive. Within this context, she has a battle. Others, the elements, and even her own logic of what is right and wrong. In a dystopian world, inner conflicts always exist. "I try to imagine assembling this meal myself back home. Chickens are too expensive, but I could make do with a wild turkey. I'd need to shoot a second turkey to trade for an orange. Goat's milk would have to substitute for cream. We can grow peas in the garden. I'd have to get wild onions from the woods. I don't recognize the grain; our own tesserae rations cook down to an unattractive brown mush. Fancy rolls would mean another trade with the baker, perhaps for two or three squirrels. As for the pudding, I can't even guess what's in it. Days of hunting and gathering for this one meal and even then, it would be a poor substitution for the Capitol version" (Collins 5). The Capitol is a place of outwardly countless wealth, especially compared with District 12. One meal of theirs, as Katniss notes, would take her days to make. The Hunger Games is most favored for the rich because those are the people who can afford the time and training it takes to compete. The kids who were wealthier have been training their whole lives for this and that is how their winning. The rich kids started to team up, so they can target those we were not trained an easy to get rid of. They picked those weak contestants, and this also included Katniss the player from the poor district. Being poor has helped those contestants in a way because they are used to it. They know how it feels to be hungry and they know how to hunt and gather food. They know how they will survive, and it would not be as hard for them. It will be way harder for those rich kids because they cannot t go off without eating. Rue is the one who discovered all this that being from poor district gives them an advantage.
In a conclusion, as you can tell wealth does play a big role until today. People are being treated so differently as if they're not humans. Being poor or rich should not let people step all over your face. It is tough what people have to through on their daily lives. Especially in The Hunger Games how they all teamed up to get rid of the poor. Everybody should be treated the same, equally. At the end of then, end money does not buy you happiness so no matter what these "rich" people do they will never be happy. You have to do what makes you happy and what your heart desires you to do. Doing something for the poor will make your day ten times better and lighten up your day. Just seeing those poor people smile makes you complete a huge mission.
The moral of the story is that even when it comes to love and your future with someone you call spouse they still wouldn't care and would still go where the money goes even if it means to break another person's heart.