The Corporate Sepulchre In Frank Norris’s The Octopus: A Story Of California

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Published: Dec 5, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53555/jrtdd.v6i10s(2).3458
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political discourse economical exploitation clash of frontier and monopoly impersonal forces represented by technology and corporate structures problem of social justice reconciling power of nature confrontation and corruption

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R. Senthilkumar
Dr. R. Bharathi

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This research paper tries to bring out the struggle of Californian wheat farmers in the San Joaquin Valley against the powerful Pacific and Southwestern Railroad Monopoly. The novel, The Octopus: A Story of California depicts the monopolistic, land-grabbing railroad, consolidation, organization, conformity, tough-minded, self-reliant people, exploited the land, subversion, coercion and outright violence. This novel is dealt with the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers and rancher’s league and also exhibits corporate greed, monopolistic power, exploitation of the working class, struggle between the labor and capital, the decline of the individual and the transformation of California.

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R. Senthilkumar, & Dr. R. Bharathi. (2024). The Corporate Sepulchre In Frank Norris’s The Octopus: A Story Of California. Journal for ReAttach Therapy and Developmental Diversities, 6(10s(2), 1770–1773. https://doi.org/10.53555/jrtdd.v6i10s(2).3458
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Vol. 6 No. 10s(2) (2023)
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Author Biographies

R. Senthilkumar

Ph.d., Research Scholar, Roll No: 2201070027, Department of English, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.

Dr. R. Bharathi

Professor, Department of English (FEAT) Annamalai University, Chidambaram.

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Eby, Clare Virginia. “The Octopus: Big Business as Art.” American Literary Realism 26 (1994): 33-51. Routledge, 1992.

Seltzer, Mark. Bodies and Machines. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Wood, Adam. “‘The Signs and Symbols of the West’: Frank Norris, The Octopus, and The Naturalization of Market Capitalism.” Twisted from the ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Knoxville; U of Tennessee P, 2003. 107-27.