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are class struggle, alienation and communism. These three aspects are still alive and well today which just goes to show how timeless this piece of work is. This essay will discuss these three ideas and critically asses Marx’s and Engel’s views on class struggle, alienation and communism. Class Struggle: One of the most prevailing ideas from the Communist Manifesto is class struggle. Chapter one of the publication deals with the bourgeois and proletarians. The bourgeois are the upper class…

on capitalism on his belief that capitalism violated essential American values. Sinclair believed that socialism was the means for American liberals to achieve most fully the ideals they embraced. Sinclair abhorred the exploitation of the working class and economic inequality. He thought that America should be the land of opportunity for all people, provided they were willing to work. He thought that America should be the land of opportunity for all people, provided they were willing to work.…

The Great Gatsby there is the West Egg which is known as the middle class, and the East Egg which is the high class, last there is one small area between West Egg and New York, the valley of ashes; the lowest class. This ‘valley’ is a “fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke.” (Fitzgerald 23). Swarming with low class men and women, trying to become more than what they are truly,…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the literary devices of setting, personification, and symbolism are used to convey that the role of middle-class women as domestic and complacent homemakers was prominent within this society. The main setting of the story was in the ancestral halls, which were secured by the main character (whose name is presumed to be Jane) and her husband John as a summer home. Although Jane wanted to stay in a downstairs bedroom…

The present book Outcaste: A Memoir is an expanded version of Jadhav’s best selling Marathi novel Amcha Baap Aan Amhi written in 1993.This memoir is a multilayered saga of the social evolution of the Dalits in India. It is a tribute from a son to his father as well as an appraisal of the caste-system. It tells the story of the awakening of the Dalits through three generations. The caste-system represses even stupefies the Dalits so that they grow into the dutiful lambs that need no shepherding…

Consider the role of the narrator in both Benito Cereno and Bartleby. Follow your leader – three words that echo through both of these texts and symbolise Melville’s role as a narrator in distinct ways. His narrative diction in Benito Cereno and Bartleby is mechanically impressive but speaks volumes as to how he felt in relation to the new capitalist society America was rapidly evolving into and the problem of slavery to which the old America was clinging to. In these texts the lawyer in…

socialism and obligation. He is trying to voice to the audience that we all have a collective responsibility. In 1912 there was no welfare in Britain. Lower class citizens relied upon charities and these…

In “Pride and Prejudice”, a novel, by Jane Austen, the prejudices formed about people based on limited and inaccurate information and on first impressions do indeed lead to misunderstandings and unfortunate choices. Throughout the novel Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters learn how important yet deceitful first impressions can be while they fall into a web of love and scandal. It is also shown by Jane Austen how social interactions in the Regency period (1811-1820) are of heavy consequence…

The Broken Auditory Mask In his novel Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens constructs the character of William Dorrit, father of Amy Dorrit and a debtor from the Marshalsea prison, who inherits a large sum of wealth. He is presented as a paranoid, insecure, and broken man when reminded of the Marshalsea prison. From his introduction in “The Father of the Marshalsea” where he witnesses Amy’s birth and receives testimonials from the collegians to his eventual demise after his hallucinogenic speech in…

The Influence of an Outsider in Society in Sula and Mama Day In every society, there are certain rules about how one should act, think, and say in any given situation that are perpetuated and must be upheld. If one strays from those rules, those ways of being, they are considered outsiders. The idea that outsiders do not follow the conventional rules of social behavior that are set in place by a society are prominent in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. Morrison looks at an…