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Multiple shades of discrimination in a capitalist Mileu in Mohsin Hamid’s moth smoke
(UMT, Lahore, 2022) Afifa Mumtaz
This paper aims to explore the shades of class discrimination, specifically in the post colonial South Asia, as portrayed through the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novel Moth Smoke. The study contends that although man is the builder of his objectives, yet the way any society operates can bring any strong man down. Furthermore, it aims to expose the crucial part of the society that is brought out by the ruling class over the lower one. Marxism serves as the theoretical framework for this study, and Louis Althusser's ideological state apparatus marks the method of this study. In today's society, the lower and working classes contemplate themselves as a drain on the earth. This paper discusses the point that to rise in life, man should solely belong to some privileged class. The findings of this study reveal the ways the protagonist in the primary text somehow manages to drive himself towards his destruction due to psychosocial issues and the division that society has built up. This study will also consider how socio-political issues have had negative effects on the minds of the working and lower classes and how merely existing and living their lives has turned into a sheer struggle.