Caste

poverty she herself experiences. In Brave New World no one faces poverty but they are conditioned completely not to think about any inequalities that come with the conditioning that they receive while they are in the bottle. They are aware of the caste system that divides…

In her novel, The God of Small Things, published in 1997, Arundhati Roy succeeds in creating an unorthodox narrative through her refashioning of the English language. Through the novel’s unexpected events, Roy presents the melancholy predicament of untouchables as well as the struggle of a woman in pursuit of romantic love in a patriarchal society. In this analysis, I will demonstrate how the reader reacts to Roy’s art of storytelling and how her unconventional style illuminates the novel’s…

These actions were not just aimed towards the higher groups of India’s caste system, but even the lowest of the low, such as the…

eaten in the winter when the crops would be ruined. The Indus people were also divided by a caste system; the caste system defined who you were and what your role was in society. The people were born into these caste system and they couldn’t be changed. The caste system was divided into four categories, the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, and the Shudras. The Brahmins were the highest of the caste system, and they consisted of priests and none other than the king. The Kshatriyas were…

a part of tradition, dividing people into caste in a hierarchical order based on their descent/birth. In the ancient times Manusmirti ((dated between 200 BC and 100 AD) contains some laws that codified the caste systems. Manusmirti and other shastras mention four varnas: The Brahmin (teacher scholar and priest) The Kshatriya (king and warriors) The Vaishyas (trade landowners and artisan group) and The Shudras (agriculturalist and service provider). Caste systems is a designed system to control…

environment. He is referred to as the “White Tiger” Freedom In an interview with Aravind Adiga, he talked about how “The White Tiger” was a book about a man’s quest for freedom. Balram, the protagonist in the novel, worked his way out of his low social caste and overcame the social obstacles…

law, rooted in dharma and based on caste was neither egalitarian nor recognised equality of all before law. Caste was the undercurrent in deciding duties, rights or judicial punishments. The higher orders were shielded and were the beneficiaries of extreme privileges while the burden of obligations largely fell on lower orders. Noted scholar, Romila Thapar who has compared the Buddhist and Hindu traditions commented that as Buddhism was a reaction against caste, they recognised that in practical…

Huxley satirizes the use of genetic engineering by showing how various aspects of it in the New World State have led to inequality in social castes, dysfunctions in intelligence, and unwanted predestination. There are four different castes in Huxley’s Brave New World, and all of them are very different. “The shorter the oxygen.”(14). This references the lower caste, The Epsilons. The Epsilons were given less oxygen when they were infants which led to a high number of dwarfs and eye monsters.…

all they would know is the “good life”. They won’t know what it means to struggle because no matter what they will always be looking down upon the other lower classes. Huxley shows this in Brave New World in the sense that individuals in the lower caste systems never questioned anything, they did as they were told or conditioned too without hesitating ever. They also had the help of the Soma that kept everyone in a relaxed “high” state. One of Huxley’s most significant concepts in Brave New…

provide the best evidence to represent the melting pot of human cultures in the Americas during the early days of settlement. The 15th panel in the 1763 Caste Painting Series by Miguel Cabrera; De Mestizo y d 'India is an oil on canvas painting which depicts a mixed race family; a Mestizo man, an Indian woman and their two children, whom the caste system labels as “Coyotes”. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Spanish word “mestizo” refers to a man of European and Native American…