False consciousness and The Remains of the Day: A Marxist’s Reading

Name of Author : A. Aravinth Raja

Abstract: The study is an attempt to bring out the „Marxist Paradigms? in the 1989 booker prize novel The Remains of the Day written by the Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Marxism as a literary and social approach tries to find the relationship among the means of production within a society as a social construct in which, the superstructure is always constructed by having the economy of the particular society as a base. The social relationship within a society is based on the means of production in the particular society, which serves as the base, and who owns the means of production, the capitalist, as Karl Marx puts forth, the relationship between the capitalist and the labourer is what he calls superstructure.

Keywords : Proletariat, Bourgeois, Alienation, Ideology, Consciousness

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