31 Chinua Achebe’s portrayal of underprivileged and sufferings of labour class. A study of class system in Things Fall Apart.
Keywords:
Subjugation, oppressedAbstract
Every society is divided into classes, rich and poor, upper class, middle class, and lower class but it is different from caste system as it has numerous divisions and subdivisions. But the line drawn between rich and poor and wealthy and deprived has nothing with caste. Money has now become indispensable criteria to judge whether one belongs to rich or poor class and it also gives the status of an individual in society. But this social evil has subjugated and segregated thousands of people into everlasting misery, but this class system has proved more troublesome than caste system as it effects people at social, economic and political level. People are oppressed, exploited easily and Achebe shows concern about it in his novels.
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