Living appears to be a luxury for these poor workers; their American dream is deformed. To make the capitalist society into a competitive and ruthless Darwinism jungle, the most often used metaphor in The Jungle is animal. Sinclair parallels the workers with weak creatures or rough beasts to dehumanize them and make the readers treat them with extra sympathy. "… … he [Jurgis] lived like a dumb beast of burden, knowing only the moment in which he was"(140). "Then Jurgis fought like a wild beast … …"(202).
The author of the Grapes of Wrath viewed that property was taken away from farmers because of the struggle between the individuals and the big corporations. Steinbeck’s purpose was to catch the attention of the people with what was going on in that time. For this purpose, he writes about the big business and its effects on the individuals. For Steinbeck, corporations as well capitalism were very harsh with the farmers. In the novel, the author states: "If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him.
Alexander was hopelessly out of touch with the emerging realities of a modern Russia. For example, agriculture was exploited as a source of export earnings; this helped cause a series of famines, especially in 1891. This made him hugely unpopular as he took grain from the people in an attempt to make money and improve the economy. Due to his slow intelligence and lack of experience, Alexander forgot the fundamental rule of keeping his people happy and instead chose to supress them. He did not realise that, following Alexander II’s emancipation of the serfs in 1861, he could not return to a state of rigid autocracy when the serfs had already had some freedom.
He is sarcastically calling the government of Ireland to action. They are consumed with selfishness and neglect to help improve their country by taking measures that are more charitable. In an ironic and cleverly delivered twist of words, he elaborates on his belief that the rich people are vulcer’s devouring the land, food and additional resources from the less fortunate people making it almost impossible for them to survive. Many of the poor resort to selling themselves as slaves in order to survive and provide for their families.
The Swing Riots occurred following a period of depression in Britain, so hunger and oppression was widespread. Fathers could no longer afford to feed their families from the low wages they were paid, and resentment towards employers was high. The Swing Riots presented workers with the opportunity to demand higher wages and many took this opportunity. The industrial revolution was also taking place at this time, and machinery often replaced men on the farms, as it was a more economically efficient way of farming. A government policy of enclosure was implemented, which greatly upset traditional, rural societies.
Furthermore during this time Americans had a surplus of goods and services from which to choose, and the money with which to purchase them. However,the economic boom brought high inflation, which kept poorer citizens from saving any money, the lowest-paid workers in the country were the farm workers, with sales clerks and unskilled labourers .Happy, a sales clerk, Biff an aspiring farmworker , and Willy Loman a man with a dwindling sales career reflect the mental state of the American People of the time that battled to achieve Capitalist success i.e. acquiring material possessions as the basis of social approval. Willy loman in particular was effected by the Capitalist ideal , he believed that being "well liked" and a great salesman would make him a man worth remembering . But at the age of sixty- three and nearing retirement, Willy is seen as a man who gave all of his life to a business, "I'm tired to death" only to be thrown in the scrap-heap and as a house holder whose pattern of life was interwoven with instalment plans with which he could hardly catch up.
This caused the French revolution, because the poor people were starving, and the rose up to the king to get what they wanted. This would link to increasing poverty, because the little food the peasants had meant that they had to live in poverty. It would also link to the estates general, because that is the day they raised their point to the king. Another cause is the meeting of the Estates General. This was when the king needed to raise money, he
Zar Mohammad has earned a considerable sum of money and embarks on trading but he is ripped out of his money by the governor. Bitterly despaired by the delay or absence of justice, he takes a gun and kills his enemies one by one. After the killing of the frauds, he is dubbed Shir Mohammad (lion-hearted Mohammad) by the villagers. The theme of justice and revenge fills the entire ambience of the novel. Once the law is too slow to mete out justice to the ones who deserve it, anarchy will prevail with the consequence that people will decide their own fate and exercise justice in the light of their own definition of the concept.
The economic policy known as collectivisation would result in the people of Russia such as farmers and peasants, losing their land and having to sell their produce to the state for low prices which was surely not enough for the farmers and peasants to look after their families especially with the fact that most of them did not have a lot of money. Peasants had to work harder for lower wages in order to create capital. So basically the poorest in the country were making all the sacrifices for the country as a whole. Under horrific and horrendous working conditions, the five year plan was enforced by staling with terror and brutality. Workers who did not comply with what Stalin and the state required were sent to inhumane labour camps.
NO comrades, you see wretchedness, agony, suffering, a true nightmare. What happened to getting what you work for? I’ll tell you what happened; we were bamboozled, scammed of what was rightfully ours. Comrades, how many of you work longer days and still don’t have enough food to feel full? Comrades, Napoleon and Squealer have been lying to you; Squealer says that getting your ratio decreased is for a good cause and that it’s your way to help Animal Farm.