Marxism & White Teeth basically talk about same theme, such as culture, society and Religion. When I was reading Marxism I found some connection between white Teeth. In the Novel we can see “Samad” is a character who came from Bangladesh and his religion is Muslim. He came from a very strong Muslim family. No matter what he can never change his religion. So, we can see Bressler also talk about the same issue in article it says “reality itself can be defined and understood” (P 191). In this line Bressler try to explain religion is a very important part of our life.
On the other hand according to Marxism, “Engels and Marx call this negative sense of ideology false consciousness, which describes the way that the dominant social class shapes and controls each person’s self-definition and class consciousness” (P 194). In this line Bressler try to explain we divide people by race, color and gender. But also, in our society we can divides people as a class, such as high class, middle class and low class. In the novel we find two characters one is a middle class and one is a high class.
As an example we can say Samad is a middle class person. He was a scientist in his home country but now he is a waiter in England. Also, he always tries his best to keep his culture and to teach his son same culture value. We can count Chalfen’s as a high class person. Because both parent s have college degree.
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i definitely agree to your ideas . i mean that is a good angle you showed us as a reader that that marxism is also about different class, the middle and the higher in the novel. yeah! sure samad i think fits into the middle class.. and he chaflen's to the higher class..
This does exist all over, especially for immigrants... it really makes you wonder how much of a better life he is living now, than if he has remained in Bangladesh. It is unfortunately a situation that many cultures face when immigrating to another country, particularly a “western society”. As education is considered “better” in western societies, it can be the opposite, although it is much more difficult to take advantage of the education system in other countries, in western society education is more available, but not necessarily better. Another barrier that many immigrants face, even to day is the language barrier, and even an accent is considered less intelligent than someone with a western accent. It is definitely an aspect portrayed in White Teeth that is accurately represented.
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