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Discussion of Marxist Theory and Emotional Labor in Gilmore Girls
“Karl Marx has come alive for me today…”
Paris Geller
As a sociology professor, I have to say I loved the episode of Gilmore Girls called “We’ve Got Magic to Do” in Season 6. Since Netflix released all of the seasons, I’ve been tearing through them quickly, as I missed the show when it was first on. It’s a fabulous show for discussing both gender and social class politics with a dash of commentary on race and ethnicity.
The core interpersonal conflict of the show is between Lorelai Gilmore and her wealthy parents, Emily and Richard Gilmore. Years prior to the beginning of the show, sixteen year-old Lorelai rejected and fled from her parents upper class life with her newborn, Rory. When the show begins, Rory is the same age as her mother when she ran away. Rory aspires to attend Harvard.Lorelai, who is managing a successful inn, requests help from her estranged parents to help pay for Rory attend a prestigious, private, prep school.
Rory attends the school and winds up attending Yale, her grandfather’s alma mater, instead of Harvard.When at private school, she meets Paris Geller, an intense, wealthy, young woman.Over time, one learns that Paris rarely sees her parents at all, and she is essentiall
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Review: Young Marx
The new play Young Marx is an affectionate and funny account of Karl Marx’s early life as an impoverished émigré in Victorian London, says Keith McKenna.
The revolution will be fun, at least if playwrights Richard Bean and Clive Coleman have anything to do with it. Their Young Marx, which inaugurates the new Bridge Theatre on London’s South Bank, is an affectionate funny account of the 32 year old Karl Marx living in Soho in 1850.
The farce is restrained, the events depicted mostly true, and Marx’s politics shown to be a product of experience and other people. The very first scene sets the tone. Marx is suspected of being a thief when he tries to pawn the silver his wife has inherited. Police are called and he escapes by running across a rooftop and clambering up a chimney.
This is a Marx who is fast on his feet, quick with his jokes and struggling desperately with debt. He would like to put politics and his problems on one side and simply go on a pub crawl down Tottenham Court Road. But the world keeps pulling him back. His children need food, his friends clamour for his writing and the creditors demand payment.
The play’s great strength is the uplifting picture it paints of these circumstances. Humour is central to
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The Second Offend as Farce
Francis Wheen, Marx’s biographer, describes life infiltrate the Histrion Street household
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