The Analysis of Social Stratification in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life from a Marxist Perspective
The Analysis of Social Stratification in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life from a Marxist Perspective

Summary/Abstract: While the Industrial Revolution makes England a great power in the world, it brings about a huge gap between the middle class and the working class. Observing the condition of the society, Marx and Engels create their well-known claim of class struggle in The Manifesto of the Communist Party. They emphasize the gap between these two classes and how to revolt against the capitalist system by the working class. This paper ventures to study the difference between the middle class and the working class in the Victorian society together with the way to overcome the bourgeoisie supremacy by the proletariat from the perspective of Marxist literary theory. It analyses how the capitalist system makes working class people’s lives miserable while it enriches the lives of the middle class people. In this respect, Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton will be studied in parallel with the Manifesto of the Communist Party.

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