... role in the development of this new proletarian consciousness of totality."" Furthermore, he wants to point out that "the greatest artists are those who can effectively represent the totality of human life through literary realism."" To apply the Marxist literary theory to Middlemarch is therefore highly convenient because Eliot wants to deal with real life issues. Her ambition is to create a portrait of the complexity of ordinary people in the small community of Middlemarch ... in nineteenth century England. She weaves together the town's social relations to a complex social world, whe...

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... literature authors use several elements and strategies to hold interest in a reader. Some of these elements include symbolism and characterization. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses direct characterization to illustrate Tom Robinson as an oppressed, poor, black man, the actions taken against him symbolized all oppressed African Americans in the south during the 1930's. In the novel Animal Farm, ... George Orwell uses characterization to symbolize certain figures and events of historical communist ... New ideas traveled through his mind everyday, he was inventive, and very pensiv...

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... : Oh, don"t be foolish. Willy: I know it when I walk in. They seem to laugh at me." Now this book can be viewed in contrast to the Marxist Literary Theory by taking each social class into consideration and comparing them with the Marxist Theory. The Working class is made up with Willy's family: Willy, Linda, Biff, and Happy. In this family I believe that Willy has ... the power because it seems that everyone kneels to him and his needs except Biff. When Biff tries to confront Willy about his many problems, Linda and ... ! Willy: I hear that! Linda: Don"t, Biff! Biff: It's goddamn time yo...

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... . Both believed that these extraordinary people were above the laws of ordinary men and did not have to submit to their moral code. However, these philosophers disagreed on the motivation of the extraordinary man. Hegel believed that the "superman" could ignore the laws as long as his actions benefited the race of man as a whole. On the other hand, Neitzsche believed that the superman broke the laws in order to benefit himself alone ... . In a way, Raskolnikov submits to both theories of the extraordinary man. What is important to ... ...

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... portrays the political corruptness of the party from the beginning whereas David Christian argues that censorship was compulsory to stabilize rule. The issuing of the decrees on Peace, Land and Workers control of Factories was both a political and ideological move employed to appease the main working class population. Other progressive changes included the enactment of a democratic modeled Soviet constitution, the establishment of a Constituent Assembly and the Bolshevik's socialist commitment to the emancipation of women in The Marriage Code of ... 1918. These reforms demonstrate the ...

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... society." This he believed could be achieved through a carefully organized revolution which he planned with dedication and skill. He became leader of a collection of scattered groups entitled the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. It was because of this, that he was arrested and imprisoned from December 1895 to 1897. While in prison, he began his first major work ... will become unnecessary and government will disappear. In it's place will be self-governing people, each serving to the best of their ability and receiving according to their needs. Shortly afterw...

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... emotional power to endure the pressure moves me to tears. Above all, the novel criticizes the strict Victorian moral code, with its bias against women and the lower classes. In this novel, readers can not only enjoy the timeless tale of the maiden who goes to the wood and comes back a maiden no more; but also perceive a savage indictment of the hypocrisy of Victorian social values. While feeling deeply the author's moral sympathy ... for the lower classes, especially women, readers ... ...

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... , and younger generations has taken for granted education and social classes. D.H Lawrence was by far one the most contemporary authors of our time. Yet, during his lifetime he was viewed as vial, obscene and completely out of line for his generation.. His work when first published were considered inappropriate and to some extent not considered literature. Lawrence had always struggled for acceptance from ... his family, peers, and even the readers of his work. Lawrence's mother, Lydia Beardsall Lawrence, was a former schoolteacher who had grown up in a higher social class than what her ...

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... Communism was a serious threat. Once it is known that the police chief and the psychologist are the main propagators of the pods, it suggests that physical and intellectual authority can no longer be trusted. Furthermore, Communism is linked to various other elements in the movie. The idea of growing a pod and watching it spread represents the organic nature of Communism. Farming, one of the key roles in Communist society, is also evident throughout ... the movie. In addition, the farmers are the ones who are growing and distributing the parasitic pods. The viewer gets a sense that the ...

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... an orderly line like drones. A bit further into the movie, there is the scene at a factory that has the same elements of the opening scene in prison; orderly lines, uniforms, and very little communication between the workers. These images further reinforce the Marxist theme of the worker being viewed as more of a machine or commodity rather than a human. While ... both films carry Marx's sentiments about servitude and exploiting the individual, Metropolis has a much deeper Marxist influence than À Nous la Liberté. Clair's movie has a more subtle view of the dehumanization of the ... w...

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... by its dominant parent culture through strong links. Now that we have looked at the meaning of a culture and a subculture lets move on to the key factors, which effect in particular youth subculture. Age well in terms of youth subculture age is one of the key identifying elements. Youths identify with one and other based on similar age and life experiences. Youth ... subcultures tend to comprise of teenagers ranging from twelve or thirteen to mid twenties. Gender is another identifying element with a clear male and female ... commercial cash in is highly important in terms of the diffu...

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... identifiable way. There must also be an identifiable break in history where the lower classes revolt against those ruling. To become a democracy, Moore states that the peasant class inevitably ceases to exist after a period of time. The bourgeois class rises, gaining power. They do not overpower the landed elites, but rather a balance of power is implicated so that neither has total control over ... the other's actions. To become a communist society, Moore's theory states that the bourgeois class must become very weak or disappear. ... Along with this, the peasant class does not gain p...

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... it very much resembled its Tsarist regime predecessor, the Okhrana. The Okhrana had also performed the will of the ruling regime, and had violently suppressed both the peasant uprisings of 1905-6 and the opposition political parties in that same period. Fitzpatrick states that "there clearly were strong elements of continuity between the Tsarist and Soviet secret police", but that is where the similarities end. The responses enforced through these organs were vastly different ... for each regime; Tsarism was reactionary and repressive, and ultimately inflexible in its responses. The Bol...

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... any subsequent rise in unemployment to the impersonal market mechanism, rather than to conscious government policy. Restructuring the state owned enterprises is essential to the health of the Chinese economy, the success of the government and the status of the Communist Party. In this conception, releasing a market economy from regulation always runs the risk of unleashing the chaotic (and potentially catastrophic) elements of this process. For example, rather than controlling the number of state-owned enterprises destroyed by ... market economy implementations, a complete release of su...

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... financially secure and being able to better themselves materialistically. This is the driving force behind the theory of capitalism. The society that we as Americans live in today perpetuates the need for greed through the voice of the media. Expensive clothes, overly-excessive accessories, and nice cars dominate television commercials and the pages of magazines. From the time we are born, these luxuries are presented to us as normalities, leading ... us to believe that these items are, in essence, necessities. This, in turn, leads to more greed and the jealousy of others. Without this ...

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... are presented as if they were little girls (young and innocent). On the other hand men are presented as explorers, active, strong and dominating. I think that gender especially, women, appears to be the best way to sell a product. Another thing that I have learned from the sociology class is about the American dream of black people. According to W.E.B. DuBois, white people used to consider blacks as ... a lower race. Therefore, the black people had to struggle for their rights. "To be black and American" - it ... was their biggest dream (DuBois calls it "the double consciousness") and ...

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... Frederick Engels is essentially a "how-to" on communism. Marx was convinced that if he could follow through with his theory that salvation would reach these civilizations and a sense of equality would be present within the society. I agree with Karl Marx's standing in that a utopia would be an ideal society to live in; however, I believe that it is an unattainable dream. According to ... "stateless society" where central government had eventually wasted away and was replaced with a strictly democratic process. This process would include the elimination of the market system and the repla...

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... succeed Lenin. But By 1929 Joseph Stalin was in complete control of Russia. Here are the reasons why. Firstly, Stalin's leading rival Leon Trotsky was very arrogant. This made members of the Bolshevist Party and the public dislike him because of his self-importance. Trotsky underestimated Stalin, which led to Stalin winning the leadership of the Bolshevist Party. Secondly, Stalin believed in Socialism in Russia, which ... was a very popular idea with the people. Trotsky believed in a Bolshevist World Revolution, which would make the Soviet people very unhappy because it ... he did not...

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... that had no apparent flaws, but his sorrows and pain led him to the socialist form of government and the evils of capitalism. Through the trials and tribulations he repeatedly faces in the novel, he comes to believe in the evils of capitalism and how corrupt the system is. First is at the wedding, where the barkeeper starts off with a half keg, and drains that and uses another ... half keg through the festivities, and charges the family fully for both kegs. Not even the sacred tradition of marriage stops the immorality of the ... barkeeper who only looks out for himself. Next, when the...

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... his autonomy by doing this. While working on the railroad, Jurgis became self-destructive, like a senseless machine. "he became reckless and indifferent, like all the rest of the men, who took but little thought of themselves in the ardor of their work."(p.206). In the same paragraph, the narrator explicates further: "they had no share in it--they were paid by the hour, and paid no more for being interested ... ."(p.206). This is probably the best example of alienated labor in this novel. Marija's form of alienated labor is much different ... work on an assemble line all day ever day le...

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... , is classified as a work of Realism, the ideals it entails could not stray further from reality. In this excerpt, Marx and Engels attempt to explain the evils of the "Bourgeoisie's- power, and how the centralization of industry, capital, and consequentially political organization around this ruling class does nothing more than suppress the majority of the workers. To them, the working class is the backbone of not just the economy, but the state itself. However, due ... to the current distribution of wealth and control, they have become faceless drones, slaves to ... ...

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... a meat-packing plant where he got firsthand experience on the trials and tribulations of the hard-working packers there. This job gave him the inspiration to write The Jungle, which soon became an instant success to the public. They bought it for the wrong reasons though. They were deeply intrigued about the standards of the meatpacking plants and what happened behind closed doors. Sinclair had ... actually intended the novel to sympathize the working class and to build support for the Socialist movement, which he was an avid member of. Through the workers" long hours, low pay ... has a ...

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... leadership style was different compared to the likes of Sun Yatsun, Yuan Shikai and Chiang Kaishek. Mao was a communist leader who believed in the right of equality, and because of that he got the support of many of the Chinese peasants. Mao leadership style was different because he believed that the peasants were the key to China, which is why he organized the long march across China to gain ... support from the all peasants. Unlike Chiang Kaishek who wanted the extermination of all communists, Mao knew that if he didn't have the support of the ... if its people were treated equally. ...

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... thing, those days, we can see that government needs power of community. It is clear that this film shows how anatomies of people handle on political power. It is also interesting to note that I confuse in end of the film. When the teacher gathered the students, he read the paper which is wrote by the students in the class about the formation and what students learn this formation, and then ... , the students mention on paper that this can make them feel more valuable and equal. In this point, There is a word "equal ... Nike product. I feel that ideologies as a like communism or liberali...

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... him. However, this is not the only event that corresponded between the novel and Russian history. Another example of the parallel between "Animal Farm" and the Russian Revolution is when the animals start to rebuild the windmill. The animals' source of food had quickly become scarce under the reign of Napoleon, and "starvation seemed to stare them in the face." During the Russian Revolution, Russia suffered a ... be restrained. This aspect is accurately portrayed by the pigs throughout the story. Vanity is another example of human nature, as is the case with Mollie and her ribbons. Howe...

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