Monday Response

All the Works I read are conveyed in a way that all resemble Williams when he talks about systems of beliefs that are "characteristics of a particular class or group", also "a system of illusory beliefs-false ideas or false consiousness-which can be contrasted with true or scientific knowledge", and also, "The general process of the production of meanings and ideas". All of these ideas have been portrayed in the readings such as 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Antonio Gramsci's 'The Intellectuals', who's main theme is the influence of hegemony and the broader use of it in all the stories, also on 'girl', and 'A Marxist Critical Reading of Great Expectations". Eachone of these readings embodie the use of what Marx puts as "the separation of groups", into social economical functions.

An example of economical function is in Rudolph's Shiny new economy, that is during the christmas season where there is a great amount of economical prosperity by the rise in buiseness. As the story of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is used in a kind of advertisement. Although back in my childhood days where in school we had to put on or see shows ofchristma and there had to be Rudolph, I never at that age imagined it would be use as an advertisement to promovate christmas and with this the the big sales that will raise the economy. Nowadays, Rudolph is still used Primary to boost christmas sales but is also an imaginary figure that the new generation is focused on as a hope of bringing the festivities and with this Santa Clause, who will bring toys and gifts for all those good boys and girls, this can be use as a hegemony for chistmas. In Antonio Gramsci's "The Intellectuals", resembles with what william states as different groups that follow a different class, in this case is different groups that construct different intellectuals, there are the "traditional" intellectual that are literary , scientific, mainly every intellectual who has a professional entity. The other kind of intellectuals are the "organic", who are basically any intellectaual with any job concerning their class, this is a way of interacting with different social classes. Although, manytimes the most pofound intellectual fall in the category of "organic", which can be peasants who have a greater experience of life, and are more productive in a sense of the use of hegemony in this category of productive force in the economy. In the story of "Girl", this is an example of what williams puts as "Illusory beliefs-false ideas", the way the mother is telling her daughter of all the "how to do things", she is teaching her all the things she should know on doing as of cooking, cleaning, that are typical in any society where the children learn from the parents, in this case the "girl" from the mother. Although, the false belifs are that she tells the girl not to do inproper things in order to show her resembling a "slut", because the proper teachings are only those that will help her grow up to a better person, and not to ashame her of her values as a women she is going to be.
All of these readings touch on the use of hegemony, on Rudolph the example of "If you don't show, you don't sale", the use of Rudolph as an icon to promote christmas festivities, and with this the raise of economy during the holiday. There are also the intellectuals who are separated in categories, such as different categories of 'genres', and also the Marxist critical reading of great expectations, how the main charater pip, was in depth that show the problem of his economical capital. Also the problem of teaching by the mother in "girl", is used as an example of false Illusory.











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