Culture and Anarchy

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Culture and Anarchy</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by Matthew Arnold is a critical essay that argues culture-understood as the pursuit of the best that has been thought and said-is essential for improving society.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Arnold criticizes the dominance of rigid class interests materialism and unthinking individualism in Victorian England which he believes lead to social disorder (anarchy). He divides society into groups such as the Barbarians (aristocracy) Philistines (middle class) and the Populace (working class) and urges all of them to embrace culture reason and moral refinement as a path toward social harmony and true progress.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>by Matthew Arnold is a critical essay that argues culture-understood as the pursuit of the best that has been thought and said-is essential for improving society.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>