Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Literary Elements

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Literary Elements

Genre

Book

Setting and Context

Written in the context of the influence of the caste system and its history in the United States of America

Narrator and Point of View

Third-person point of view

Tone and Mood

Disheartening and informative

Protagonist and Antagonist

The narrator is the central character.

Major Conflict

There is a conflict between Obama's presidency and the upper caste system, which threatens their superiority.

Climax

The climax is the realization that the upper-caste is worshiped by society, which is psychosomatic warfare in opposition to the lower-caste.

Foreshadowing

Racism in America is foreshadowed by the white settlers' initiation of the caste system in the 17th century.

Understatement

The power and influence of the people of the lower caste are understated.

Allusions

The story alludes to the historical injustices against people of color in the United States of America.

Imagery

The structure of the caste system depicts sight imagery to help readers see the historical injustices against the people of the lower caste in America.

Paradox

The main paradox is that despite the new constitution and modernity, most American institutions practice a case system that views people of color as inferior.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

The caste system is personified as racist.

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