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The narrator is aided in his development through the themes of materialism, isolation, and emasculation. do the themes of loneliness, masculinity, and freedom from society change the unnamed protag. throughout the duration of the novel. The narrator of the

The first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities not only prepares the reader for guaranteed conflict, but also puts the gulf between social classes in perspective.

Throughout history, a divide has always existed between the rich and poor in society. However, during the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England, this rift reached its peak. The working class labored for long hours and received miniscule wages, whereas the bourgeoisie grew abundantly wealthy through the labor of the working class. Published in 1848 and 1854 respectively, Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto and Charles Dickens’ Hard Times both comment on these troubles. While Hard Times is a novel which tells a story and The Communist Manifesto is a short publication which tries to bring about social change, both writings offer a sharp critique of the class antagonism brought about by capitalism at the height of the Industrial

In the words of Karl Marx, the founding father of Marxism, Marxism principally believes that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” In essence, Marx asserts that every day is a tale of conflict between society’s upper and lower class. While controversial in the real world, this notion is not far-fetched in the realm of literature. For example, Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” shows prominent signs of tension between classes. When examined from a Marxist perspective, Walker’s characters in “Everyday Use” highlight how each class values items and how survival needs and societal expectations differ among classes.

An individual’s legacy, in many ways, is predetermined by the primordial “Fate.” A sort of judge and guide that some people have subscribed to for centuries. This guide develops a certain permutation for an individual’s life which is only influenced by one’s ability to compose judgements and decisions about obstacles which appear everyday. This decision making process is cyclical in that it always leads to another question to answer or problem to solve. One decision may edge the next until it yields to fate, the ultimate philosophical judge. Fate is a permanent path and one is stuck on its course. The same could be said for the Wes Moores’ of the work The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. Throughout the work, the Wes Moores’ made complicated

People often wonder how they would react to certain stimuli and daydream themselves into worlds that are often changed from this one. In the books Siddartha, by Herman Hesse, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, and All Quiet on the Western Front, the authors capture such daydreams and put them into a written format that all can learn from. To explain further how individuals cope with political and cultural changes/continuities, the actions of the primary characters in the aforementioned books will be broken down.

On Saturday, August 26, 2017, Michael Bennet, a defensive lineman for the Seattle Seahawks, was singled out and put through an awful experience with the police. Michael Bennet went to the Mayweather-McGregor fight and on his way back to his hotel, he heard gun shots. He was running to safety when police officers pointed their guns at him. The officers told him to get on the ground, placing cuffs around his wrists “so tight that my fingers went numb” (U.S. News). Michael Bennet was thrown around. Why was Michael Bennet given no rights when he is a U.S citizen? This question can cause annoyance and anger in the police system. In response to this event, Michael Bennet sat during the national anthem to draw attention to equality. Michael Bennet is devastated at how the police force controlled this issue and is trying to make a stand for equality. His tweet with his story was captioned by “Equality” (U.S. News). Michael Bennet is trying to promote equality, but with no multiculturalism or understanding, the system will fail.

Through the interaction of the characters, it is evident that the story can be looked at from a Marxist perspective. There is a distinct power structure within

In other word, Gaines presents Eddie, the father of the protagonist of A Longue Day in November who accepts to burn his car just to have his wife back at home, is Eddie a man? is the question asked by Gaines. So that Eddie’s lack of manhood despite the fact that he is a man, provides relevant raisons to consider that manhood is sometime nothing but adult age. In the whole book, Ernest J Gaines shows manhood in such a way every reader can understand it visibly without any paradox, but in A Long day in November it depends to each readers to judge the attitude of Eddie. This character is presented by Gaines as a weak man when he is ready for all tests just for a woman, but also as a mature man capable to make sacrifices to rearrange his familial instability. considering this example, “Honey,” Daddy says, “if I burn the car like Madame Toussaint says, you’ll come back home?”(p65). Analyzing this quotation, will lead to two different aspect of Eddie’s manhood, he acts as man who feel the responsibility to save his marriage by accepting to do anything, but if the other aspect is analyzed one can note that he is not mature and virile enough accepting to deny all his pride and his manhood just for a

The son of one of the mill owners Clark Kirby, a physician Doctor May, and two other visitors take a tour of the mill. It is during this visit that they encounter Hugh’s Korl sculpture of a nude woman. The narrator describes the strangely beautiful sculpture as having a muscular form “grown coarse with labor,” the limbs are “powerful” and “instinct with some one poignant long,” and the “tense, rigid muscles, the clutching hands, the wild, eager face” resembles that of “a starving wolf’s” (Davis 1716). When asked the meaning of his work of art, Hugh simply reasons that the woman is hungry. However, the woman’s form --- as Doctor May points out --- does not appear starved. Eventually Hugh admits that the woman is not hungry for food, which suggests that the woman is hungry for more --- just as Bartleby and Hugh seem hungry for more out of life. In spite of Hugh’s artistic potential, the visitors ultimately choose to not help Hugh rise from his impoverished state. Instead, they support the capitalist ideology that justifies their negligence. Kirby, without any hint of shame, admits that perhaps there is “some stray gleams of mind and soul” among the poor workers, but it is not his responsibility to nurse “infant geniuses” (Davis 1717). Kirby’s only responsibility lies in paying the workers on Saturdays, and he further asserts that is up to the workers to climb the capitalist ladder.

Ellis wants the readers to realize the anxieties that these men actually felt at the time, when success was not so assured. The chapters are linked both by Ellis' pursuit of balanced truth and the

Identity is defined significantly by monetary circumstance. The influence of the economy is palpable in the novel, affecting each advocate in a disparate manner. With The Great

What he seems to be saying in this extraordinary novel is not only that the 1911 revolution has come to a dead end, but also (and more important) that, given man’s nature, Marxist solutions are facing the same blank wall. He proposes an existentialist way out, but his sense of courage is greater than his suggested submission to man’s apparent destiny. (Adams)

In the writing “The Company Man”, the author, Ellen Goodman, gives us a brief, yet, fulfilling summery of a big company man’s attributes, life, and death. In this work, the author uses referential writing as her primary purpose of writing, while she also uses narration as her primary pattern for the analysis of the writing. She begins, opening up with “He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 AM Sunday Morning.” in order to grab our attention. She then goes into the different aspects of his life, starting with his devotion to his company and some of the different characteristics about him. Next, she lists, in chronological order, the different people in his family, and analyzes what he meant to each person listed. Finally, in closing, the author repeats some of her work, reflecting her writing in her introduction, closing with more elements about him and his work ethic, but also reminding us of how he sacrificed work for family. She then finishes her writing with “So when he finally worked himself to death, at precisely 3:00 AM Sunday morning, no one was really surprised”

It is fairly apparent that a number of political overtones dominate Emile Zola's novel Germinal, which is the 13th book of nonfiction within the writer's Les Rougon-Macquart, a 20-volume series of novels. The author published this work of literature in 1885, less than 50 years after Marx and Engels unveiled the Communist Manifesto which was still plenty of time for a number of the ideologies propagated in this manuscript to take hold of popular culture and political theorists alike. In fact, one could successfully make a claim that the central theme of Germinal actually revolves around the conceptions of class antagonism that is an inherent part of an exploitative, bourgeois society such as that depicted in the French coal mining town in 1860, the setting for Germinal. A thorough analysis of this literary work illustrates that there are several instances of class antagonism, which are central to the plot of this book and provide its primary theme.