Through Karl Marx’s Alienation of Labor during the romanticism era, to artwork, literature, and movies from the modernism era, time wasting away while mindlessly working just to be able to live is what seems to be what the 20th century art and literature was about.
The Alienation of Labor by Karl Marx basically talked about how the work industry was dehumanizing the actual laborers. The workers hardly made any money but had to continue to work just to make enough money to live a life. The workers were paid at a very low rate to ensure that capitalists got maximum profit, resulting in a significant gap between the two. Marx also talks about the effect being a labor worker has on a person's mind and body. You slowly start to lose who you are, …show more content…
Most of us work because we need to. We need to put clothes on our backs, food in our bellies, and have all kinds of insurance so we don’t dig ourselves into pits of debt when accidents happen. On the rare occasion that someone actually likes doing their job, there’s still days where that person would rather sleep all day than go into work. Still days where they have to talk with coworkers they’re not fond of or deal with people that don’t appreciate their profession.
Not to mention the significant gender wage gap that is currently, and always has been present. Women don’t get paid nearly as much as men do annually, nonetheless when it comes to different ethnicities. The United States alone in 2016 had a gender wage gap of about $10,000 annually (Miller). In Washington State, nearly a $14,000 annual gender wage gap (Miller). As a woman, It’s immensely dehumanizing to absorb the fact that my opposite gender makes much more money than me, even if we have the same …show more content…
Not only does Gregor, the main character, never question why he is a bug, but neither do any of the people who encounter him. I think this is symbolizing how we feel inside, like a giant bug. We sometimes feel irrelevant/worthless when doing mindless tasks, or like a bug in a giant, vast world. With no one in the story mentioning the fact that Gregor is a bug, this adds to my theory because generally, people never mention to you that you're irrelevant/worthless (metaphorically in this case, a giant bug), unless they’re a horrible
The Alienation of Labor by Karl Marx basically talked about how the work industry was dehumanizing the actual laborers. The workers hardly made any money but had to continue to work just to make enough money to live a life. The workers were paid at a very low rate to ensure that capitalists got maximum profit, resulting in a significant gap between the two. Marx also talks about the effect being a labor worker has on a person's mind and body. You slowly start to lose who you are, …show more content…
Most of us work because we need to. We need to put clothes on our backs, food in our bellies, and have all kinds of insurance so we don’t dig ourselves into pits of debt when accidents happen. On the rare occasion that someone actually likes doing their job, there’s still days where that person would rather sleep all day than go into work. Still days where they have to talk with coworkers they’re not fond of or deal with people that don’t appreciate their profession.
Not to mention the significant gender wage gap that is currently, and always has been present. Women don’t get paid nearly as much as men do annually, nonetheless when it comes to different ethnicities. The United States alone in 2016 had a gender wage gap of about $10,000 annually (Miller). In Washington State, nearly a $14,000 annual gender wage gap (Miller). As a woman, It’s immensely dehumanizing to absorb the fact that my opposite gender makes much more money than me, even if we have the same …show more content…
Not only does Gregor, the main character, never question why he is a bug, but neither do any of the people who encounter him. I think this is symbolizing how we feel inside, like a giant bug. We sometimes feel irrelevant/worthless when doing mindless tasks, or like a bug in a giant, vast world. With no one in the story mentioning the fact that Gregor is a bug, this adds to my theory because generally, people never mention to you that you're irrelevant/worthless (metaphorically in this case, a giant bug), unless they’re a horrible