Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield

     In an episode Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield, starting from Marge Simpson finding a nice dress at discount store, meeting her old rich friend at gas station, and being invited to the country club for rich people, this episode is related to their desire to be socially better and the reality they are facing. Because they are not that rich and have never had an opportunity to go to a place like the country club, Homer Simpson and two kids are reluctant to go there and be a part of rich community. However, Marge Simpson wants to join the country club because she just wants to be a part of rich community to be seen as a socially better family.
    As the episode goes on, Simpson family faces a lot of struggles between rich people lives and their reality. Marge has a really nice dress but ONE nice dress, Homer doesn't have his own golf clubs, and two kids don't even know what the rich lives are. Rich people watch them like they are evaluating if they can fit into their community. Marge does her best to be welcomed to their community sewing her one dress to different styles and asking her family to behave right. However, at the day the country club was about to accept them as one of members, Marge realizes that she forces her family to look better to be accepted, and that is not what family is about. At the end of the episode, she, at fast-food restaurant. says This is more comfortable place.
     In Marxist theory, rich stays rich and poor stays poor. Simpson's family is the representation of have-nots, in other word, they are not poor but not good enough to be a part of the rich community. They feel more comfortable at where they are used to be. Rich people spend time with rich people at the place where they always be, and others stay with others even though rich people were actually about to accept Simpson's family into their rich community.

Breaking Bad -Marxist analysis-

     Breaking bad is a TV series about a chemistry teacher start making pure meth to make more money for his family after he was told that he has a cancer and can't live for a long time. He wasn't poor, but one episode shows that he is invited to his former coworker' party who is nominated for some honorable prize as a scientist, and sees how rich his former coworker is now. He now has a life as a chemistry teacher in high school making just enough money to live, and as a drug dealer taking risk to make money for his family to survive if he dies. He is a very serious and thoughtful man for his family so that he starts making meth with knowledge he has as chemistry teacher meantime his former coworker who is nominated for some honorable prize has a better life worrying about nothing in his life including financial situation. 

     This conflict makes main chemistry man try to make more money by making more drugs and sell them. In one or two seasons, he makes money by making and selling drugs for his family to survive if anything happens but as the story goes on, his life becomes more involved to dealing drugs, and unescapable from what he does. In marxist theory which explains the dividing line between rich and poor, society is created for rich people to stay rich and poor people stay poor. This applies to Breaking Bad, main chemistry man. He wasn't poor but to make more money for his family to survive, he needs to make meth. He has to do something illegal to get out of his financial situation. the dividing line is seen and that is one of the reasons why he has to make drugs.