RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITALIST PSYCHOLOGY AND MARXIST ALIENATION IN THE LAST WHITE MAN

The study discusses the plight of proletariats by analyzing The Last White Man symbolically. The whites are taken as bourgeoisie and the blacks are studied as proletariats. The research is conducted in the background of capitalist culture and psychology that how attitudes of bourgeoisie cause the working-class to be alienated. This paper brings the steps out of the novel that would help the proletariats to come out of this destructive cycle of alienation. This study highlights the importance of psychological health of the working-class by targeting them directly which is the need of the hour. It encourages the scholars to put light on Hamid`s other novels in an exploratory way and bring out the ways that should be helpful for the communities that are facing atrocities as there is much to do in that direction. The research is conducted in a way that it uses the lens of Marxist alienation with the psychanalysis. Because Hamid wrote in a very poetic ways that it also includes the hint of philosophy. So, to decipher those lines the techniques of literariness are kept under consideration and also as both the antagonist sections of the society are under discussion so the archetypal theory has been a great lens to study the novel to find out the psychological needs and desires in relation to the alienation faced by the working-class.