Examples Of Dystopia In The Kite Runner

DYSTOPIA: INTERPELLATION IN KITE RUNNER

The marginalized section of the society continually lives in distress and wariness of the dominant section who exploits power. In the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the state of dystopia is seen through the two communities, the Hazaras and the Pashtuns. The Pashtuns detested the Hazaras because they were poor and looked like Mongolians, who had previously captured them. The elite people like Amir, Assef and Baba kept trampling over the downtrodden Hazaras like Ali, Hassan and Sohrab. The Hazaras were powerless to autonomous thoughts and lived in a dehumanized state. There are a lot of dissimilarities between the rich and poor characters which can be seen throughout the novel.

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The Proletariat sell their labour power in return for a wage for their labour time. They do not have a choice than to work under the capitalists because they do not have enough money to start their own small-scale industry and even if they try to climb the social or the economic ladder, the ‘Repressed State Apparatus’ does and will not allow them to achieve that. The big factories produce maximum number of goods at a faster pace and at a cheaper price, whereas such a case is not possible in a small-scale industry where the home and the work place are the same. So, it is natural that people would prefer buying from the products from factory outlets than from the small-scale industries. Only those who have the taste for fine products would buy the goods from the small-scale industries. The Bourgeoisie earn out of getting the labour done by the labour class. They have surplus value in hand and keep accumulating wealth whereas, the labourers work very hard to meet their daily ends. The income of the capitalists is based on the rate of exploitation of the labourers and so there is so equal distribution of wealth and