The Iron Heel Analysis

The Iron Heel! After reading this novel, I am left puzzled and amazed with how many questions I have for the author of the book. Some of the questions I believe can be inferred, but I am still highly curious as to what the author would say. I have several questions for the author as to why he wrote the novel, what his motivation was behind it, and a few more but I will just focus on my following question. Does The Iron Heel apply to the Twenty-first century in America? This question has lingered in my mind the most after reading this novel because this book is so intense and it touches on many issues that I believe the U.S has faced over the years. The U.S has faced the government controlling us, a huge divide economically with the upper class

They control everything we do for the most part, they shape our views on things, and they only tell us the things they feel as though we should know. But of course our government is not as strict and as bold as the capitalist are in the novel. Our government is much more sneaky when it comes to how they control us, but very similar indeed to the novel. For example, our government will do anything for money and they try to control everything in order to make money. They are not as extreme as in the book, when the capitalist told the people who they could marry and who was related to them and who wasn't. They told Ernest and Avis that they were brother and sister so that they could not be together. That would never be okay in our world, but I think he put that in there to show us that this is where our world could turn into if we let it. The capitalist in this novel do whatever they want, pretty much like our government does things. They do what they feel is suitable/reasonable, which could be taking rights away from us to make things better for them. Our government does this by making laws that are supposed to protect us but it's really just their way of monitoring us. For example, we have tracking devices in all our cellphones and there are cameras on most street lights nowadays, but they say it's to protect us but it's really just a way to monitor us and control