In The Jungle,Upton Sinclair delineates various evil-doings in the early 20thcentury economic transition which originate from the evils of reification,banality and unscrupulous personality.He discloses the phenomena of reification under the systematic force by his study of the evils of political-commercial reification,the reifi-cation of capitalist-worker relation and the reification of emotional relation,denounc-ing the tramp on laborers'basic human rights and dignity from the perspectives of political corruption,politician-businessman collusion and capital monopolization.Moreover,he explores the anti-civilization,anti-socialness and anti-ethics of banality of evils through the revelation of evil-doings of scabs,common workers and housing a-gents.Finally,the unscrupulous personality finding expression in jealousy,avarice and lust brings to light the pleasure-seeking evil psyche harmful to the people's life.
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