Auric Gold
Inez Tapia
August 12, 2011
English 200
Essay #2 RD
Why does Auric Goldfinger exist?
Auric Goldfinger owns gold deposits in several cities around the world and is extremely passionate in his methods of acquiring the precious commodity. Goldfinger shows the importance of gold through his appearance and the way he ascts. When Bond meets Goldfinger he says, “Bond’s first view of Mr. Goldfinger was startling. At the far corner of the roof, just below the cliff of the hotel, a man was lying on his back with his legs up on a steamer chair. He was wearing nothing but a yellow satin bikini slip, dark glasses and a pair of wide tin wings under his chin.” Goldfinger represents the average gold where money is backed and can be liberally transformed into gold. He gains independence from a system, changing, and the will to stop at nothing to increase his own value and wealth.
Goldfinger, The richest man in England is also the treasurer for the Soviet counter-intelligence agency SMERSH. SMERSH is the brutal Soviet-led anti spy network for which Goldfinger provides financial backing. The most important theme of Gold finger is wealth; he is obsessed with gold and has hoarded away enormous quantities of it. He is gold-obsessed and because of this he plans to detonate a nuclear bomb in Ft. Knox to destabilize the United States gold market, thereby significantly increasing the net worth of his own gold billion stockpiles.
SMERSH and its agent Goldfinger attack the wealth of nations. The smuggling and the assault on Fort Knox are meant to undermine Western economies and to bolster SMERSH’s own schemes. “The Russians were notoriously incompetent payers of their own men,” Bond notes. Goldfinger’s smuggling provides revenue for paying SMERSH’s assassins. The Financial backing can be converted into gold where a certain amount of money is diffused. There is a certain quantity of gold so it makes it hard when there are so many people. The gold is only for people that can obtain it and take care of it.
This is a system where there is control of the amount of money distribution because it is limited to the quantity of gold set aside. Setting gold aside is a good thing because then prices will be regulated which moderates the chance of prices to rise. The weakness of goldfinger is that there is only a restricted supply of gold therefore it becomes difficult to keep a gold average when the the community is growing tremondously.
In Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments he gives us the impression that to be wealthy is a good thing because the high class has money. Smith say’s “The fortunate and the proud wonder at the insolence of human wretchedness, that it should dare to present itself before them, and with the loathsome aspect of its misery presume to disturb the serenity of their happiness.” In this case the lower class such as the “poor” is inappreciable and looked down upon. As for the high class or “wealthy” they are presented to be unique because they are rich so therefore acknowledged and glorified. Due to this idea, in this text everyone wants to be prosperous.
The people I am going to investigate and describe in a economic profile are either Auric Goldfinger or Julius from Down and Out of the Magic Kingdom. Goldfinger, The richest man in England is also the treasurer for the Soviet counter-intelligence agency SMERSH. SMERSH is the brutal Soviet-led anti spy network for which Goldfinger provides financial backing. The most important theme of Gold finger is wealth, he is obsessed with gold and has hoarded away enormous quantities of it. SMERSH and its agent Goldfinger attack the wealth of nations. The smuggling and the assault on Fort Knox are meant to undermine Western economies and to bolster SMERSH’s own schemes. “The Russians were notoriously incompetent payers of their own men,” Bond notes. Goldfinger’s smuggling provides revenue for paying SMERSH’s assassins. The Financial backing can be converted into gold where a certain amount of money is diffused. There is a certain quantity of gold so it makes it hard when there are so many people. The gold is only for people that can obtain it and take care of it. Julius is one of the main characters in the Bitchun Society. The treatment of others affect on the support Julius receives from them and this has to do with the amount of whuffie. For this paper I plan to incorporate Adam smith on h0w he talks about the rich and poor.
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
What Marx meant by this is that humans are capable of making or shaping their own nature to some extent depending in the social class they belong to. The members of the ruling class have the same ideas. These ideas rule the whole society. That is, the class which owns the property, factories, and, in fact, all the means of material production, at the same time controls the means of mental production. The ruling ideas of a society are the ideas of the ruling class. These ideas express and justify the power of the ruling class over the rest of society. Just as there is division of labor in factories, there is also division of labor in the field of thought. Some members of the ruling class earn their living by being the thinkers of that class. They come up with the ideas which express what the ruling class wants to think about itself. Other members of the ruling class don’t have time to make up these ideas. This creates conflict but, in reality, this conflict never comes to anything because, at bottom, the members of the ruling class all have the same beliefs.
What makes labor value difficult to establish?
What makes labor value difficult to establish is the amount of effort given by an individual. Two texts which best explain the hardships of establishing labor value are The Lady’s Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour. Swift and Collier explain two different types of women’s labor- the type related to beauty, and the type related to agriculture work, or what is usually called “hard labor.” These two different perceptions of the authors about women and their hardships affect their role in inaugurating labor value.
The idealized image of women, promoted equally as strong in Swift’s day as in ours, causes problems for women because they become self-absorbed. Through sarcasm, Swift points out the problems with unrealistic expectations in his poem. Women are the primary consumers of these beauty products. Swift notes, through Strephon’s shocked eyes, those women spend an inordinate amount of time using beauty products when beneath it all they are normal, sweaty, stinky human beings. Women have somehow been socialized to expect to be perfect. Moreover, cosmetics are one of the biggest most booming industries in the world today. The industry shows no sign of lagging, Swift’s poem The Lady’s Dressing Room is an ironic poem. The topic of the poem is just what the title says: he’s describing what happens in a lady’s dressing room. However, the first lines signal the ironic approach: five hours to get ready? This is hammered home by the suggestion of a goddess, as if the women were divine, an image Swift then contrasts with both agricultural byproducts (dung, hard work, smell) and a kind of industrial production. This text is ironic because the male perception of beauty is natural and effortless, not something that involves work. He’s saying how much work it is to make women beautiful, and how disgusting the work behind the scenes is.
Collier’s poem describes the double shifts of wage labor, home- and field-work, and work in others’ homes that make up the lives of the rural working women. Because of their toil in the fields, as domestics, and as care-givers, they have little time for rest, she explains, and even less to reflect or to dream. Collier also criticizes the exploitation of domestic labor and the dangers of seasonal work. Mary Collier describes the variety of a woman’s work.
For my major paper, I am going to answer the question what makes labor value difficult to establish? What I think makes labor value difficult to establish is the amount of effort given by an individual. The two texts I plan to work with are “The Lady’s Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift and Mary Collier’s The Woman’s Labour. By using these two texts I think it would be interesting to talk about women and their hardship and role during this time to explain why it was difficult as women to establish labor value.
Swift’s poem The Lady’s Dressing Room is an ironic poem. The topic of the poem is just what the title says: he’s describing what happens in a lady’s dressing room. However, the first lines signal the ironic approach: five hours to get ready? This is hammered home by the suggestion of a goddess, as if the women were divine, an image Swift then contrasts with both agricultural byproducts (dung, hard work, smell) and a kind of industrial production. He’s saying how much work it is to make women beautiful, and how disgusting the work behind the scenes is.
Collier’s poem describes the double shifts of wage labor, home- and field-work, and work in others’ homes that make up the lives of the rural working women. Because of their toil in the fields, as domestics, and as care-givers, they have little time for rest, she explains, and even less to reflect or to dream. Collier also criticizes the exploitation of domestic labor and the dangers of seasonal work. These two texts show the hardship of developing labor value.
In Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments he gives us the impression that to be wealthy is a good thing because they high class has money. Smith say’s “The fortunate and the proud wonder at the insolence of human wretchedness, that it should dare to present itself before them, and with the loathsome aspect of its misery presume to disturb the serenity of their happiness.” In this case the lower class such as the “poor” are inappreciable and looked down upon. As for the high class or “wealthy” they are presented to be unique because they are rich so therefore acknowledged and glorified. Due to this idea, in this text everyone wants to be prosperous. But then we get into Smith’s text: Division of Labour he also talks about how the rich and poor and how they are similar but different due to the existence of who has more money. He says, “But though the poor country, notwithstanding the inferiority of its cultivation, can, in some measure, rival the rich in the cheapness and goodness of its corn, it can pretend to no such competition in its manufactures; at least if those manufactures suit the soil, climate, and situation of the rich country.” This is the belief in which Smith expressed in Theory Moral Sentiments. We can see that the rich and poor countries are both powerful in agriculture, but the rich countries have better quality manufactures, therefore they are considered predominant. I don’t understand how the rich and poor can have good agriculture but the rich are always more superior? Smith states, “He must cultivate these therefore: he must acquire superior knowledge in his profession, and superior industry in the exercise of it. He must be patient in labour, resolute in danger, and firm in distress.” Is this the only way for someone not born in the upper class to be powerful in someway the rich are?
In the poem The Thresher’s Labour Duck really emphasizes labor. This is a poem written about the hardships of the working class, particularly threshers doing farm labor. The poem opens with the harvesting of the crops, passes through the seasons, and ends again with the harvesting of the crops. This emphasizes the apparent endlessness of threshing. Duck lists the various difficulties of his work, such as the heat of the sun, the never-ending hours, and the annoyance of woman workers. His labor experience is shown through hierarchy, hardworking, always working; Stephen Duck does a lot of jobs in the poem. The labor in his poem is the type of labor we have today 8 hour shifts the same routine everyday. If Duck and Collier would meet he would probably rub it in her face that women are not hard workers like men. In the two poems are very sexist against each other. What Mary Collier is known for is her poem in response to Stephen Duck’s The Thresher’s Labour. She took offense to his statements against women, and wrote a poem entitled The Woman’s Labour, defending women labourers by listing all that they do, often referencing portions of Duck’s poem as arguments against him. Collier wrote The Woman’s Labour in hopes of becoming more than a working-class woman, like Stephen Duck did. Duck portrays women to be useless in the labour aspect. But Collier well sets her argument that women are as hard working as men. Men at least will stop working when they retire they will be good for nothing but for the woman will still be working until the say she dies.
Two words that I have chosen and important are Credit and Virgin from the article Allegory of Publick Credit by Joseph Addison.
Addison uses the term credit as a type of money it can also be an I owe you. I think Addison associates credit with pureness and innocence. This pure and innocence relates to age and the adolescence. The younger you are the less creditable you are due to your age and reputation. As for people of age they are viewed are more creditable, respected with higher authority as opposed to a younger child in this case the virgin. When I hear the term virgin I automatically think of a girl who has not had sex. Someone that is pure and innocent. Addison says, “She was likewise (as I afterwards found) a greater Valetudinarian than any I had ever met with, even in her own Sex, and subject to such Momentary Consumptions, that in the twinkling of an Eye, she would fall away from the most florid Complexion and the most healthful State of Body, and wither into a Skeleton. Her Recoveries were often as sudden as her Decays, insomuch that she would revive in a Moment out of a wasting Distemper, into a Habit of the highest Health and Vigour.“ Something that is virgin is not only associated with the body but can also be a mental thing. Credit can be clean or dirty depending on the surrounding factors. The way he explains credit here it can also be considered as a virgin.
Hello my name is Inez Tapia I am now a Senior at the UW majoring in English and minoring in Spanish and Diversity. My plans after I graduate are to get into Law School and become an immigration lawyer. The reason I am taking this class is because of interest and fulfills requirements for my major.
What is money? – My definition on money is a tool that shows how hard you have worked and to buy what you need. A resource of survival.
OED def: 1. Any generally accepted medium of exchange which enables a society to trade goods without the need for barter; any objects or tokens regarded as a store of value and used as a medium of exchange.
What is Economy?- I define economy a system of trade/ Information.
OED def: I. The way in which something is managed; the management of resources; household management.
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