A Study of Moby Dick from the Perspective of Alienation Theory

Autor: Lu-lu Yue
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management.
ISSN: 2475-8868
DOI: 10.12783/dtem/ahem2020/35389
Popis: Moby Dick is one of the most famous American novels in literature history, which represents the capitalist system of America. With the detailed description from Herman Melville, it will be easy to analyze the different features of alienation brought to different people, mainly the capitalists and the laborers, and the reasons why people are alienated with the production, the labor process as well as people themselves. The whaling industry helps capitalist system developing quicker and quicker than before, however, there are some contradicts in it which alienates themselves from their origin subject. After the analysis of alienation in capitalist society, it is clear to know that the essence of alienation and the only solution to alienation is to free all human beings, which is the core of Communist theory by Marx.
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