Guest & a Soldier's Home

Definitions of Alienation

According to Karl Marx, alienation is "…the process whereby the worker is made to feel foreign to the products of his/her own labor" (Purdue.edu). Marx asserts that the worker laboring for a capitalist corporation or a business is alienated because he does not own that product, someone else does, and his sweat and tears go into the production of items that another entity benefits from (Purdue.edu). The Merriam-Webster definition: "…a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person's affections from an object or position of former attachment" (www.merriam-Webster.com).

Self Alienation in The Guest and A Soldier's Home

A Soldier's Home: Since Krebs felt he had to lie to get anyone to listen to him he was technically alienated from the truth, and that removed him from the mainstream in society. It was his own doing of course. Krebs likes to look...
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