![]() ![]() People are preoccupied with their social status, obsessing over getting to the top and once there, maintaining their status. The cart only houses a select few but it is up to the majority to exert great effort in order to pull them. He uses the analogy of society as being like a horse and cart, but with the cart being pulled by people rather than horses. Narrator Julian West reduces the 19th century to four main social classes: rich, poor, educated, and uneducated. ![]() In the book – which initially drew little attention from readers but became successful with the printing of a second edition – the aristocratic Julian Welsh is emblematic of the 19 th century, while the character Doctor Leete represents the 20 th century. ![]() In his 1888 novel Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy, a New England writer who lived during the 19 th century, imagines the 20 th century as a socialist utopia in which capitalism and private property are a thing of the past, government is small, and society comprises citizens who work cooperatively for the common good. ![]()
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