Repressive Ideology of Ruling Class in Upton ...

Repressive Ideology of Ruling Class in Upton Sinclair’s The Flivver King

Author Name : S. Dharani, X. Ann Lanka Jeyadharshini

ABSTRACT

Upton Sinclair’s The Flivver King is one of the greatest novels which depicts the pathetic condition of the working class people.It also centres on the repressive ideology of ruling class in America. My paper analyze repressive ideology unconsciously approved by the society mainly in American society reflected in Upton Sinclair’s The Flivver King: A Story of Ford America. Nowadays, there is a phenomenon about capitalism that becomes the main system in the world.Capitalism is the main problem that makesmiserable life to working class who is often exploited by the capitalistic class in order to get profit for their own. My paper shows that American Dream becomes the main ideology that is deep rooted in the minds of the people. It can be concluded that ideology fails to give prosperous life to working class people, instead it gives prosperous life to ruling class.

Key words: Ideology, Capitalism, Working Class and American Dream