What Is Kipling's View Of American Imperialism?

The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair was a very touching and motivating story. Sinclair aimed for our hearts, but instead, he hit our stomachs. The Jungle is a story of hardships and trouble, some successes and many failures as a family tries to achieve the "American Dream." In this book, "The Jurgis Ruckus' myth of failure is the other side of the Horatio Alger's myth of success." (xxvi)

The Jungle Books – The First Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book – is a collection of short stories, several of which have the same protagonist, by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1894 and 1895 respectively. The stories that are relevant to this essay take place in the jungles of India and in a bungalow in the 19th century. The ‘Mowgli’ stories tell the story of a boy, found and raised in the jungle, whose primal life is full of adventures, all the while struggling with his own humanity. Meanwhile, ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ is about a mongoose, separated from his relatives, who ends up with a British family whom he must save from the local fauna. Kipling wrote these, and many other stories, with children in mind, therefore one might assume that the message is as innocent as can be to suit the young readers. However, in post-colonial times, many have criticized

Rudyard Kipling’s poem was originally written for Queen Victoria but he later changed his mind and didn’t have it published until 1899. It was at this time that America

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was written to expose the brutality faced by the workers in the meatpacking industry. Sinclair wanted to show people what was really going on in the factory because few people were informed about these companies work conditions. He wanted to show the public that meat was “ diseased, rotten, and contaminated” (Willie).” This revelation shocked the, public which later led to the creation of the federal laws on food and safety. Sinclair strongly shows the failure of capitalism in the meatpacking industry which he viewed as inhumane, destructive, unjust, brutal, and violent (Willie).”

Several years before and after the turn the turn of the twentieth century, America experienced a large influx of European immigration. These new citizens had come in search of the American dream of success, bolstered by promise of good fortune. Instead they found themselves beaten into failure by American industry. Upton Sinclair wanted to expose the cruelty and heartlessness endured by these ordinary workers. He chose to represent the industrial world through the meatpacking industry, where the rewards of progress were enjoyed only by the privileged, who exploited the powerless masses of workers. The Jungle is a novel and a work of investigative journalism; its primary purpose was to inform the general public about the dehumanization

Why was the United States interested in expansion in these areas? Why was America building a global empire?

     Many immigrants are moving to the United States in the early 1900’s with the hopes of living the “American Dream.” However, that glittering American lifestyle is merely a distant ideal for the immigrants living in Packingtown, the Lithuanian meatpacking district of Chicago. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays life through the eyes of a poor workingman struggling to survive in this cruel environment, where the desire for profit among the capitalist meatpacking bosses and the criminals makes the lives of the working class a nearly unendurable struggle for survival.

Social Studies Topic: (APA) The topic of choice for the following resource guide is American Imperialism, 1850s to 1900s. Several standards under SS.912.A.4 and SS.912.A.3 are met with this topic, as well as the leading factors to the first world war, which would be the following unit. Five Books:

The Jungle was a social criticism novel written by Upton Sinclair in 1905 to 1906. The novel was very touching, it showed the hardship of living in America and false hope that it gave to the incoming immigrants. It was an eye opener to not only what immigrants endure trying to better life for their families, but it showed that everything came go from bad to worse quickly.

People face abuses in society today such as drug use, police brutality towards blacks and peer pressure. These problems look so good in the eyes of the bully and terrible in the eyes of the victim and people who are watching it happen. Examples such as drug use looks so good to the person who using the drug but terrible to the person who's watching the person use the drug take Whitney Houston for example. Police brutality toward blacks looks and feels terrible to the black person who's taking the abuse both physically and mentally but looks and feels good to the police officer because he or she feels like there doing the right thing take Alton sterling for example. Peer pressure is another good one take me for example.

Rudyard Kipling’s novella,“The Man Who Would Be King”, is about two English men, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan, who are cons artists that live in India with the goal of becoming the kings of Kafiristan. The story is told through a narrator, an Englishman, that stumbles upon the two characters through a strange interaction at a train station. After meeting up with the narrator at his job, Dravot and Carnehan gather as much information as they can about Kafiristan and head off in disguise for their journey to becoming kings. There are many similarities regarding how and why the British Empire and Dravot and Carnehan came to imperialize these Indian countries. Throughout the whole novella, Kipling uses the story as a way to display

Rudyard Kipling’s attitude towards the British Empire was significantly negative. The novella essentially expressed Kipling’s feelings towards British Imperialism and his overall frustration with the British Empire. However, there are several positive qualities of the Empire pointed out by Kipling several times throughout his novella. Despite his mixed feelings, he is ultimately dissatisfied with the British Empire, claiming that it is “the White Man’s Burden”. Kipling was a steadfast imperialist, living in a time of British domination and oppression. He shared similar outlooks with the natives, that the majority of them were oppressed by the government and the wealthy. The upper class was greedy and wanted working men to do all of the work for them so that they could reap the profits. Kipling conveys his attitude towards British Imperialism through parallelism and figurative language.

The poem makes clear Kipling's view of attitudes that allowed colonialism to proceed. Although a belief in the virtues of empire was widespread at the time, there were also many dissenters; the publication of the poem caused a flurry of arguments from both sides, most notably from Mark Twain and Henry James. Mark Twain asserted that Kipling wrote the poem to help persuade many doubting Americans to seize the Philippines, which seemed to be a fair point of view for that time period. In the New York Herald, October 15, 1900, Twain describes his transformation and political awakening, in the context of the Philippine-American War. He recognizes his transformation from being Pro- imperialist to Anti- imperialist. Many Anti-imperialists like Mark Twain acted on the popularity of the poem to attack the McKinley’s policies as too great a "burden" or

At the close of the 19th century Rudyard Kipling preserved the prevailing attitude of Britain’s intellectual elite in a poem - “The White Man’s Burden”. In his work Kipling confirms the hubris of a generation of Britons who were entirely convinced that they were culturally, rationally, and morally superior to the “new-caught…Half-devil and half-child” natives of the British colonies. This belief in the superiority of western values manifested in the flight of thousands of philanthropically minded Victorians across the British Empire. These emigrants consisted of a section of society driven to do their duty and fulfil the “national

Throughout the nineteenth century, many of the world's largest countries were searching for ways to expand their power. They searched for foreign lands in which they could conquest military, political, and economic wealth. Traditional cultural forms were transformed into that of the European style, imperialistic ideas were being spread, and resources were being stripped. This search for power included the country of Great Britain and their colonization of India (Cohn 4). The effects of colonialism are still evident today in each place. Rudyard Kipling expresses themes of British Colonialism in his novel, The Jungle Book.