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be blamed for his situation. He completely trusts his nation‘s leaders and believes that whatever they say is true.
One day, he goes to a mass rally with tens of thousands of other people. As he listens to the speeches, he forgets about his life situation. Even after returning
to work and going home he is still stirred by the speeches. Then suddenly he feels unwell. That evening he rides his trishaw and late at night he is hit by a car and
taken to the hospital. His wife is told to come back in the morning, but when she comes back she finds out he had died. The blood that was to be used for Conat
had been used by a major dignitary instead who suffered an accident about the same time as Conat.
3. Theory Marxist Theory
A school of thought arising from the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marxist theory, proclaimed that different socioeconomic classes have
more powerful effects in classifying people compared to differences in religious beliefs, race, ethnicity, or gender Tyson 54. As they perceive it, Marxist
theorists believe that economic power is the cause of all social and political activities in a society. Money and the value of things become a motivation to what
a society regards as acceptable or valuable in all aspects of life. Marxist criticism investigates how those in power within a society uses their governmental system
to hide unfairness in their socioeconomic arrangement. Therefore, another aim of Marxism is to bring to surface the ideologies that hinder us from seeing the reality
of the class struggle beyond what is visible to us, by ―interpret[ing] text according
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to its relevance with the class struggle‖ ―History Marxist Criticism‖. Furthermore, Marxist theorists have
created a model of society that consists of ―a base the material means of production, distribution, and exchange and a
superstructure the ‗cultural‘ world of ideas, art, religion, law, and so on‖ Barry 157. It means that everything exists in a society is because of an important thing
called ‗money‘ as the ‗base‘. As a result, every part of society - from its social, political, and ideological standpoint - exists or remains standing only because of
money. Moreover, Marxism classifies two kinds of soc
ial classes: ―the bourgeoisie
—those who control the world‘s natural, economic, and human resources
—and the proletariat, the majority of the global population who live in substandard conditions and who have always performed the manual labor‖
Tyson, 54. The bourgeoisie are the rich and powerful controllers of a society, whereas, the proletariat are the subordinate - poor citizens who live in oppressed
situations under the rule of their powerful government. Because of the presence of two differing socioeconomic classes, there are bound to be conflicts between the
rich and the poor. The system by which a society works is heavily influenced by ideologies.
As for all Marxists, ideology is a key term which, according to Althusser, ―represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of
existence‖ Althusser 18. It also means that without having any ideology in a society, the society would not be able to keep the governance systems focused on
what is right for all members of society. According to Bertens, ideology blurs the
