Abstract:
This dissertation borrows Marxist concepts to compare Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The objective of this present analysis is to reveal the main effects of the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century on the American and British society. Based on the concepts of the Marxist theory, this comparative study investigates the drastic consequences produced by capitalism. It also explores the class struggles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and attempts to show how class division might be the ultimate result of a capitalist patriarchal society.
