bourgeois life
Comfortable conventional living
Bourgeois life is the comfortable, conventional existence of the middle class—stable income, property ownership, respectable habits, predictable routines.
The phrase often carries a dismissive edge, suggesting materialism, conformity, and lack of imagination: He rejected bourgeois life for the uncertainty of art.
What sounds like security to some sounds like spiritual death to others.
- middle classIntermediate socioeconomic group
- suburban livingResidential life outside cities
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- alienationState of being isolated
commodification · nouveau riche · status symbols · individualism · hypocrisy · quiet desperation · domesticity · Marxism · class consciousness · homeownership · conformity · good schools · consumerism · respectability · realism · careerism · existentialism · satire
- societysociety, social customs, class, citizen, social hierarchy
- servantsbutler, maid, servant, servants, domestics
- French RealismBalzac, Flaubert, Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola
- Impressionismwater lilies, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Giverny, Monet
- Nordic ArtScandinavian design, Munch, The Scream, Viking ships, runestones
- 19th-Century ArtWanderers, landscape painting, portrait painting, oil painting, plein air
bourgeois lifeworking-class life
Existence of wage laborers
peasant life · poverty · subsistence living · lumpenproletariat
bourgeois lifebohemian life
Unconventional artistic lifestyle
bohemian lifestyle · artistic life · vagabond life · nomadic life · ascetic life
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