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However Larkin may also be using the working class to show that
the clothing bought by the cloth store keeps you more trapped then
ever before. Larkin uses materialistic and superficial language by
the representation of the week day cloths In Browns and greys,
maroons and navy) and also the going out cloths Lemon,
Sapphire, moss- green, rose to show how the proletariats think they
are free by buying these more exiting and colourful clothing as they
believe they are buying into the petit bourgeoisie aspiration as they
are going out in more extravagant clothing but are actually further
trapping themselves through false consciousness and there
acceptance of the status quo and social system. They are further
trapping themselves through working and belonging to the
lower/working class and then going and spending their money on
the items of clothing from Marks and Spencers. This is helping to
keep the bourgeoisies wealthy and themselves the proletariats poor.
This is due to them working and then spending there money each
week until they die with is benefiting the upper class and the
capitalist society meaning there is no escape and it is a constant
cycle. They share that world, to think their sort is they are trying
to be equal to the bourgeoisie. Andrew motion would also agree
with this due to him saying Larkin sees drab houses, drab colours,
drab lives and drab people during the week trying to change by
night into something they are not. This further supports the fact
that there lives are one big repetitive circle and they are trying to
aspire to something hey are not but however does not work as they
are still trapped in the lower class and can not escape the social
system.
Larkin shows a certain pessimistic view toward the proletariats as he
recognises there dystopian. How separate and unearthly love is he
recognises and portrays them as unequals. In conclusion Larkin
explores the inequality between social classes through representing
them in the cloths and there aspirations but throughout the reader
will slowly realise that the proletariats are doomed. As this poem
was not written so along ago and Larkin him self did not live that
long ago the readers of today and then will of shared the same view
the reader of then and now also share the same capitalist society
and it is still present and people are still struggling in the modern
day due to the bourgeoisies.