Summary:
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a political novel, pointed against capitalism, with the purpose of furthering the socialist party. The historic irony of this is work is that the masses do not remember it being an outcry for socialism, but an attack on the meat packing industry.
The Jungle
As the industries in America grew, so did its population. Immigrants came from across the world with one common dream in mind that capitalist America, with its plentiful opportunities, would provide them with a good job and a home to raise their family in. However, this dream established for many immigrants, such as Jurgis Rudkus in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, to be nothing more than crammed cities, monotonous, below minimum wages, and death. Sinclair, while he wrote this novel, believed that society's problem was capitalism, which could only be corrected though socialism. Upton Sinclair's purpose to have written The Jungle was to spread his anit-capitalism message. He uses specific details, symbolism, and the structure of the novel to expose the corrupt capitalism in the era of the early1900's.
Details presented by Sinclair through both the.....
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