The theme of Selfishness:

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19th-century English aristocratic class. Alongside many other significant themes, we see
the theme of selfishness. Selfishness was present in the 19th century and there are a lot of
examples of selfishness in the 19th century or during romanticism. Fyodor Dostoevsky, a
19th-century realist writer represented that in his writing. Dostoevsky’s novel “Poor
Folk” is a perfect portrayal of what was society like in the 19 th century. Although he was
from Russia it was no different from Great Britain. Just like in most of the essays of
Charles Lamb, We see the theme of selfishness in this particular essay as well. We see
that when a person wants to be a friend with someone, he does not want a third anomaly
in their friendship and he only wants his friend to be his friend and not in a relation to
with others not only his kinsman. We have the example of Merry in this essay. The last
paragraph is fully about selfishness. We see first Merry was interested in the dancer but
later on he ran away to avoid his marriage. Why did he do that? The reason is quite clear.
When Merry found out that the girl is a dancer, Then for his own sake he left the girl just
because of her profession and ran away. At first, he was interested in her sincerity but
then he rejected her. That’s the perfect example of selfishness in this essay.