The Treatment of Social Mobility in John Arden’s Live Like Pigs

  • I. Anjani, Dr. D. Shanmugam

Abstract

This article demonstrates the exigencyinsocial mobility.The socioeconomical shift in any class of people to another is social mobility.The play Live Like Pigsby John Arden depicts the crisis in social adjustment between two families in a council estate in northern English industrial town.It is about the trauma amid completely different class of people forced to live in as neighbours. It exhibits the happenings between the Sawneys, a family of Gypsies, who is put into a council house next door to the Jacksons, a law-abiding family. The play is a straightforward affair which attacks the Welfare State of Britain.This paper describes the ramification of slum clearance inclined to the difficulties in accepting the behavioural differences between the Sawneys and the Jacksons. The tension in adapting the social environment is a universal and contemporary issue which demands a relief to avoid any fuss of the time.

Published
2021-11-01
How to Cite
I. Anjani, Dr. D. Shanmugam. (2021). The Treatment of Social Mobility in John Arden’s Live Like Pigs. Design Engineering, 9547–9554. Retrieved from http://www.thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/5999
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