Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

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This paper discusses "Upton Sinclair's" scathing social commentary novel, "The Jungle", and how it triggered a nationwide storm of indignation and conservative criticism. The paper explains that Sinclair's intention had been to emulate Harriet Beecher Stowe's condemnation of human slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin by condemning the injustice inflicted upon millions of meat packinghouse workers, whom he considered to be little more than wage slaves of the Beef Trust and its powerful supporters in the federal government. Ironically, many readers missed the entire thematic point of Sinclair's novel, for instead of being outraged by the political and economic establishments' criminal abuse of working Americans, they found Sinclair's graphic descriptions of what was added to the meat to be much more pertinent and interesting.

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