Working Class Culture in Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London: A Cultural Studies Perspective

Abstract

As the culture is defined as the total way of life - it encompasses varieties of lives. A life has to bear multidimensional conditions, circumstances, time and realities. It includes sophisticated, medium, lower, poor, rich, kings, beggars and tramps and so on. Every type has own way of life that is to say culture. Working class people and sophisticated people have different way of life which confirms their own typical culture. One cannot be opposed in expense of other. So this thesis dives to the depth of Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London only to unearth the total way of life of working class people in the dominated and handful control of capitalist world through the lance of cultural studies.