The Role Of Corruption In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, he exposes corruption in both business and politics, as well as its disastrous effects on a family from Lithuania. In a protest novel, the ills of society are dramatized for its effect on its characters in the story. The Jungle is an example of protest literature because it exposes in a muckraking style the lethal and penurious conditions that laborers lived and worked in, corruption in business and politics, and the unsanitary meat that was sold.

Why “The Jungle” is Protest Literature In Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” he exposes corruption in business and government and its disastrous effects on a family from Lithuania. The novel follows immigrant Jurgis Rudkus as he struggles against the slow ANNIHILATION of his family and is REBORN after discovering that socialism as a cure away to all capitalism’s problems. The Jungle is an example of protest literature because it exposes in a muckraking style the DANGEROUS, INHUMAINE conditions that workers lived and worked in, corruption in business and politics and the unsanitary meat that was sold. Foremost, “The Jungle,” protests the harsh living conditions that immigrants suffered in. Low class and immigrant laborers are trapped in their neighborhood due to wage slavery and are in constant fear of losing their jobs to the hungry masses

This is first explored when Rudkus becomes a citizen and is tricked to selling his vote. Rudkus later learns that party elections are rigged and backdoor methods are common.In chapter 25, Rudkus works with a political machine. Work with Mike Scully to rig elections to So, what Scully secretly offers the Republicans is this: he will give them money from this poor Democratic nominee's election fund as long as the Republicans promise not to raise a candidate against Mike Scully in the following election after this. END WITH BUSINESSMEN PAY OFF CITY OFFICIALS TO SERVE THEIR