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This 6 page paper provides an overview of Marx's ideas about capitalism. His theories are compared with novelist Emile Zola's concepts.
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wealth in many nations, but it is something that many people despise because it also has the effect of rendering people poor. The great class divide that Karl Marx would
often speak about had been embraced by many scholars of the nineteenth century. Well known people like Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and many others,
lambasted capitalism and thought it to be brutal and exploitative, and something that only a full-fledged class war could eradicate (Lehmann, 2003). Many are familiar with Charles Dickens works
where the characters are entrenched in poverty. Works like Oliver Twist are legendary. Ingrained in peoples minds are the unsavory characters of the street who live under the fear of
attack and must scrounge to get a meal. Emile Zola too depicted the underclass but he more blatantly juxtaposed them with the elite. Readers would get a sense of the
two lives side by side, and while Zola was an activist and opposed to capitalism intellectually, there is a streak of optimism in his works. There is also a sense
of fun and mocking as opposed to a significant sense of tragedy and loss. In the Ladies Delight for example, Zola (2002) demonstrates what capitalism is all about as
it portrays the rising form of government in this brilliant novel. The protagonist, Denise, is rather intrigued by it all and while orphaned, comes into her own in her own
way. While she is not a member of high society, she is intrigued by it. Yet, Zola portrays love and human emotion as more significant than the lure and importance
of money. Still, while Zola does show a disdain for capitalism and the division between the haves and the have-nots, one has to admit that the outcome in this novel
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